Happy New Year! As we welcome 2018, let’s reflect on some of the great things that happened during 2017.
- Francesco Evangelista was awarded the 2017 Dirac Medal, one of the world’s most prestigious awards for theoretical and computational chemists under 40
- The Department launched “The Chemmys” seminarin graduate school, this can mean two things – a seminar c... More series with Dr. W. Carl Lineberger giving the inaugural keynote speech
- ChEmory held their inaugural alumni career panel featuring three distinguished alums, Dr. Vicky Stevens, Dr. Holly Carpenter, and Nelly Miles
- Bill Wuest joined the Emory Department of Chemistry faculty
- Morgan McCabe joined the Department of Chemistry as Lead Research Specialist
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- ChEmory students traveled to San Francisco to attend the ACS Meeting
- Joel Bowman was selected as one of three keynote speakers at the International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications in Trieste, Italy
- Dennis Liotta gave the keynote address at the Molecular and Systems Pharmacology Graduate Program Symposium
- Huw Davies received the Humboldt Research Award for lifetime achievement in the sciences
- The Hill Group received over 1000 citations on their paper “Polyoxometalates in Medicine”
- Ian Pavelich was awarded an Advancing Science in America Fellowship, an award for academically outstanding students in science, engineering, and medical research
- The Wuest Group was featured of the August Issue of ChemBioChem
- Craig Hill was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry for his impactful contributions to the field of chemical sciences
- The Department of Chemistry kicked off its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiative with its “Strategies and Tactics for Recruiting to Improve Diversityin academia, used to refer to the recognition of a wide rang... More and Excellence (STRIDE) seminarin graduate school, this can mean two things – a seminar c... More
- ChEmory was recognized by the American Chemical Society as a commendable chapter for 2016-2017, placing ChEmory in the top 10-20% of all undergraduate ACS chapters
- The Department of Chemistry joined the Twitterverse @EmoryChem
- Morgan Vaughn of the Dyer Group was awarded a Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, an award designed to allow advanced students to design and teach a course
- Vincent Conticello was quoted in Chemistry World discussing protein materials
- The Center for Selective C-H Functionalization received a $20 Million Renewal from the NSF
- Bill Wuest received the 2017 ACS Infections Diseases Young Investigator Award for his research on bacterial biofilms and antibiotic resistance
- Chemistry Unbound revolutionized the undergraduate chemistry program
- Elaine Liu received the Advancing Science in America (ARCS) Award, an award for academically outstanding students to help fund the “seed stage” of their work and discovery
- The Lynn Group was featured in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
- Victor Ma received the Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award from the NIH to fund his remaining thesisa written work (long essay or multi-chapter document) descri... More work and future postdoctoral work
- Members from the Department of Chemistry and the CCHF attended the SACNAS symposium and outreachsee “broader impacts”. Outreach might also refer to volu... More event at the Leonardo Museum
- The Salaita Group research on “Picky Platelets” was featured in Medical Express