Beeler Group Play Me, I’m Yours Chemistry Piano featured in “Caught in Southie”
Play Me, I’m Yours! Aaron Beeler, a Professor of Chemistry at Boston University, got the idea to apply for a piano after the 2013 series dropped a piano in front of his office window at BU. “I was so intrigued how it brought people together, and there was someone always playing it,” explains Beeler. “And my […]
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Dr. Arturo Vegas is a 2016 Peter Paul Career Development Professorship Recipient
Dr. Arturo Vegas is a 2016 Peter Paul Career Development Professorship Recipient Boston University’s Chemistry Department is proud to announce that Professor Arturo Vegas has been selected as one of this year’s three recipients of the 2016-2017 Peter Paul Career Development Professorships at Boston University. The awards highlight the caliber, potential, and continued vitality of Boston University’s […]
Mark Grinstaff Featured in Chemical & Engineering News
When doctors need to change the dressing on a severe second degree burn, they often have to pull off the bandage and scrape the wound to remove any dead tissue. Because the nerves are still active in second degree burns, removing the bandage can be […]
DOE awards Professor Elliott a 3 Year Renewal
The Department of Energy has award Dr. Sean Elliott a 3 Year renewal of funding for his research titled “Tuning Directionality for CO2 Reduction in the Oxo-acid:ferredoxin Oxidoreductase Superfamily.” The renewal of funding will help Professor Elliott and his research group continue studying CO2 reductions. Enzymes that achieve CO2 reduction are highly powerful catalysts; yet very little is […]
Sean Elliott receives 4 Year NIH Grant
Professor Sean J. Elliott was recently awarded 4 Years of funding from the National Institute of Health for his proposal entitled: Redox Reactions of the AdoMet Radical Enzyme Superfamily. The new grant will fund research into the oxidation/reduction chemistry of enzymes that belong to the AdoMet Radical Enzyme (ARE) superfamily. The ARE superfamily makes use of an […]
Beeler Group Wins the Chance to Decorate a piano for the Boston Street Piano Project
BOSTON STREET PIANO PROJECT “PLAY ME, I’M YOURS” HTTP://STREETPIANOS.COM/BOSTON2016/ You might be familiar with Boston Celebrity Series street pianos art project. The public art exhibition “Play Me, I’m Yours” was created in London by artist Luke Jerram in 2008. It debuted Boston in 2013 and is going to be back this summer! http://www.streetpianos.com/ http://streetpianos.com/boston2016/ We submitted an application and were […]
Boston University Chemistry 2015-2016 Academic Year Grant Awards
The Chemistry Department is one of the most active research departments at Boston University. With 24 research active faculty involved in many different focus areas, we are committed to a research active learning environment where our faculty and students are afforded the opportunity to do cutting edge chemical research. In order to continue to build on […]
Professor Tom Tullius Awarded 3.5 Year NSF Grant
Professor Tom Tullius was recently awarded an NSF Division o Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Investigator-initiated research projects award to develop a new experimental method that can provide detailed information on the three-dimensional folding of all the RNA molecules in a cell, in one experiment. The new method […]
NIGMS Awards a MIRA (R35) Grant to the Porco Research Group
The National Institutes of Health, Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), has awarded Professor John Porco and coworkers (http://sites.bu.edu/porcogrp/) a five year MIRA (R35) grant entitled “Chemical Synthesis of Complex Natural Products for Translational Science.” The Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA-R35), an Outstanding Investigator Award, is a grant that provides support for all of the research in an […]