Biology and Chemistry Combine to Develop In Vivo Cancer Probe
MIT Whitehead Institute senior scientist, Dr. Luke Whitesell, and Boston University’s Prof. John Porco, Director of the CMLD-BU, have received a 3-year award from the NIH entitled “Inhibiting the Heat Shock Factor 1 (HSF1)-regulated transcriptional program in cancers.” This combined biology/chemistry team aims to identify highly potent and selective HSF-1 inhibitor probes with useful activity […]
Doerrer Group Research Gets Cover of Organometallics
The work of Steve Hannigan (3rd year BU graduate student ) and Dr. June Lum (PhD 2012) from the Doerrer group is featured on the June 24, 2013, cover of the ACS’ journal, Organometallics. A new “Room Temperature Stable Organocuprate Copper(III) Complex” has been prepared with relevance to catalytic C-H bond activation processes and relative […]
Symposium Highlights Undergraduate Research
The work of 22 students was spotlighted in this year’s day-long Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS). The record number and outstanding quality of the projects presented underscored the importance of the hands-on, challenging research that is the hallmark of BU’s Chemistry major. The even was organized by the Undergraduate Programs Committee with laudable efforts from Mr. […]
Hirst Receives AAUW Fellowship
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) has awarded Liz Hirst, a fifth year graduate student in the Jasti Group, with a year-long American Fellowship that will enable her to complete her dissertation research in the next year. Hirst’s research is highly interdisciplinary, combining chemistry, physics, and materials science. The focus of her work is […]
Caradonna Group Receives NSF Research Award
Prof. John Caradonna and his group have received a 3-year National Science Foundation award from the Chemical Catalysis (CAT) Program in the Division of Chemistry (2013-2016). Entitled “Utilizing Iron-Coenzyme Oxygen Activation in Catalysis,” the project aims to investigate new oxidation processes that directly use dioxygen in sustainable metal-based systems that preclude non-selective free-radical chain reactions. […]
PFF Alumnus Promoted to Associate Professor
Former BU Chemistry Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow (2004-2007), John Miecznikowski, has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at Fairfield University. Prof. Miecznikowski started his independent career at Fairfield University in September 2007 in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department. A dedicated and enthusiastic chemistry educator, he was selected as the Undergraduate Teacher of the Year […]
Allen Student Gets Banner Honors
Tianyang (Shasha) Ji’s structure of a Hot-dog thioesterase was chosen as the top banner image of the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s “Rapid Data Collection and Structure Solving at the NSLS: A Practical Course in Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction Measurement” (21-26 April 2013). The Hot-dog Fold superfamily enzymes, which have been studied by the Allen Laboratory for the […]
Graduate Student Receives NSF Fellowship
Benjy Cooper, a second-year Chemistry graduate student in the Grinstaff Group, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. These awards are highly competitive: in 2013, the NSF chose only 2,000 fellows from among 13,000 applicants. Fellows share in the prestige and opportunities that become available when they are selected and receive a […]
X-ray Crystallography Outreach to High School Students Continues
For a second year, Professor Karen Allen and Dr. Jeff Bacon of the BU Chemical Instrumentation Center have continued their X-ray Crystallography outreach program to local area high schools. This February, they welcomed a group of Advanced Placement Biology students from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School. Prior to coming to BU, the students had grown their […]
Doerrer Receives Fulbright Scholar Award
The Fulbright Program is an international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Scholars (approximately 1,100 each year) are selected based on their academic merit and leadership potential. The award enables them to study, teach, and conduct research at a host institution abroad. This year, Prof. Linda Doerrer has received one of […]