Department News
June 21, 2008 – Professors of Chemistry YuYe Tong, Tim Warren, Dick Weiss, Christian Wolf, and David Yang traveled with faculty from Georgetown’s Department of Physics to Shanghai for a science symposium organized between Georgetown and Fudan Universities. [more]
June 4, 2008 – Two members of the Swift group, graduate students Ilana Goldberg and Clare Yannette, won awards at the 2008 American Crystallographic Association Meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee. [more]
May 19, 2008 – The May 2008 issue of Chemistry World, a monthly publication of the Royal Society of Chemistry, featured Professor YuYe Tong in a discussion of the uses of NMR spectroscopy. [more]
May 16, 2008 – Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded the 2008 Glassman Award in the Sciences to Jingsong Huang (Ph.D. ’06, Kertesz). [more]
April 22, 2008 – The Georgetown Chapter of Sigma Xi, an international science and engineering honor society, inducted nine new associate members of the Department’s Class of 2008. [more]
April 21, 2008 – Ground is scheduled to break on Georgetown’s new Science Center following the Spring 2008 semester with a targeted completion date before the 2010-2011 academic year. The new Science Center—with its environmentally-friendly design promoting energy, water, and space efficiencies—will house the Department of Chemistry. [more]
March 17, 2008 – Georgetown College profiles Professor Christian Wolf and his research of chiral compounds in its ninth installment of Research News: Science.
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February 20, 2008 – Georgetown College’s eighth installment of Research News: Science profiles Professor Bahram Moasser and his research on catalysis and biomarkers. [more]
January 16, 2008 – Georgetown College’s seventh installment of Research News: Science profiles Professor Sarah Stoll and her research on magnetic clusters and nanoparticles. [more]
January 3, 2008 – Professor Christian Wolf authored a textbook on stereochemistry entitled, Dynamic Stereochemistry of Chiral Compounds: Principles and Applications Edition. [more]
December 13, 2007 – Professors Jennifer Swift and Richard Weiss were awarded federal research grants totaling $961,244. [more]
December 1, 2007 – Georgetown College’s sixth installment of Research News: Science profiles Professor Jennifer A. Swift and her research regarding crystal growth. [more]
November 6, 2007 – Two Chemistry Department alumni, Chi Van Dang (Ph.D. ’78, Yang) and Stephen C. Kowalczykowski (Ph.D. ’76, Steinhardt) recently were elected to the National Academy of Science. [more]
October 3, 2007 - Georgetown College’s
fifth installment of Research News: Science profiles Professor
K. Travis Holman and his research involving
container molecules.
[more]
August 3, 2007 – The Summer
2007 NSF-REU program
at Georgetown concluded
with each of the nine participants presenting
their research findings in a poster session.
[more]
July 17, 2007 – Three Chemistry
Department faculty—Professors Miklos
Kertesz, YuYe
Tong, and Timothy
Warren—were awarded federal
research grants totaling $1,170,000
for the next three years. [more]
May 29, 2007 – (From Blue & Gray)
With conceptual designs
for the new science facility complete, the
university's board of directors in May approved
funding for the next phase of design development. Building
construction could begin
as soon as spring 2008 with a projected opening
in 2010. [more]
May
10, 2007 – Karina Vivar (C’07)
is named one of twenty Georgetown University
undergraduate students to be honored with
the Lena Landegger Community Service Award.
[more]
April 26, 2007 – Georgetown
College’s third installment of Research
News: Science profiles Professor
YuYe Tong and his research involving metal
nanoparticles. [more]
February 28, 2007 – Georgetown College’s second
installment of Research News: Science profiles Professor
Toshiko Ichiye and her computational chemistry research. [more]
February
8, 2007 – The Chemical Society of Washington awarded
Caitlyn Faller (C’07) and Paul J. Lukac (C’07) with
the College Chemistry
Achievement Award. [more]
February 5, 2007 – (From Blue & Gray) With design plans for a new science building
underway and the creation of an online magazine, Georgetown College is raising
the visibility of science education and research on the Hilltop. [more]
January 1, 2007 – The international inorganic chemistry journal Inorganica Chimica Acta recognized Professor Tim Warren in
its special 40 th anniversary edition “Inorganic Chemistry – The Next Generation.” [more]
November 26, 2006 - Georgetown College presents its inaugural installment
of Research News:
Science with a series of
articles about Professor
Paul Roepe, students in his lab, and his malaria research. [more]
November 16, 2006 – Dr. Norman V. Duffy, a Georgetown Chemistry alumnus and Professor of Chemistry at Wheeling Jesuit University, was named the U.S. Professor of the Year for West Virginia. [more]
August 16, 2006 – Georgetown University hosted the Mid-Atlantic Seaboard Inorganic Symposium (MASIS), bringing together the region’s research groups working on aspects of synthetic inorganic chemistry [more]
August 1, 2006 – An article by Dr. Mathew George and Prof. Richard G. Weiss (“Molecular Organogels. Soft Matter Comprised of Low-Molecular-Mass Organic Gelators and Organic Liquids” Acc. Chem. Res. 2006, 39(8) 489-497) has been chosen as cover art for Accounts of Chemical Research.
August 1, 2006 – Bahram Moasser joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry as an assistant professor. [more]
August 1, 2006 – Professors Paul Roepe, YuYe Tong, and Christian Wolf were promoted. Roepe was promoted to full professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Tong and Wolf were promoted to the rank of association professor with tenure in the Department of Chemistry.
May 19, 2006 – Professor Emeritus Michael T. Pope
receives the 2006
Career Research Achievement
Award. [more]
April 28, 2006 Jingsong Huang was awarded the 2005 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad. [more]
April 1, 2006 –Prof. Toshiko Ichiye has been awarded two grants: a four-year, $1,056,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health and a four-year, $639,712 grant from the National Science Foundation. [more]
March 1, 2006 Rhia M. Martin (C’07) was awarded the UNCF-Merck Undergraduate Science Research Scholarship Award. [more]
February 9, 2006 The Chemical Society
of Washington awarded Megan Carroll (C’06)
and Morgan L. Deacon (C’06) with the
College Chemistry Achievement Award. [more]
November 16, 2005 Georgetown University awarded Jennifer Swift the College Dean Award for Excellence in Teaching. [more]
August 28-September 1, 2005 Washington
D.C. served as host to the 230 th National
Meeting of the American Chemistry Society.
At the ACS conference, Georgetown’s
Department of Chemistry was represented well
with several faculty, nearly 30 graduate
students, and three undergraduate researchers
presenting talks or posters
August 1, 2005 Effective August 1, 2005, Jennifer Swift and Timothy Warren are officially promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.
July 21, 2005 – Jennifer L. Small (C’06) selected as Clare Boothe Luce Scholar. [more]
June 1, 2005 Jennifer
Swift is launching a war on crystals
that
cause gallstones or kidney stones, hoping
to slow down their growth and understand
what
makes them tick. [more]
April 20, 2005 Jennifer L. Small
(C ’06), a biochemistry major, was
named a Goldwater Scholar by the Barry M.
Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education
Foundation. [more]
April 19, 2005 The Graduate Student
Organization of Chemists hosted Prof. Sam
Stupp, Board of Trustees Professor of Materials
Science, Chemistry, and Medicine and Director
of the Institute for BioNanotechnology in
Medicine at Northwestern University, as the
inaugural Graduate Student Invited Lecturer.
Prof. Stupp’s talk, “Form and
Function of Supramolecular Nanostructures,” was
enjoyed enthusiastically by all in attendance.
April 7, 2005 Chemistry Professors Angel de Dios, Paul D. Roepe, and Christian Wolf receive NIH-NIAID research grant for their interdisciplinary efforts in developing improved drugs to treat drug resistant malaria. [more]
March 15, 2005 The National Science Foundation (NSF) selected Sarah L. Stoll as a 2005 recipient of the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program award. [more]
January 26, 2005 Angel
C. de Dios was honored during the College
Faculty Convocation with the annual Dean's
Award for Excellence in Teaching. [more]
January 12, 2005 Jennifer
Swift has received the 2005 Margaret
C. Etter Early Career Award. The annual
award recognizes scientists who have made
outstanding achievements and shown great
potential at early stages of their careers.
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