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16 May 2013

Northwestern Chemistry Making Gold Green

Scientists in the Stoddart group have discovered an inexpensive and environmentally safe way to isolate gold from raw materials using cornstarch instead of the commonly used poisonous cyanides.

15 May 2013

Micromeritics Instrument Grant Awarded to Chemistry

Micromeritics’ Grant Committee has selected Northwestern Chemistry as the recipient of an HPVA-100 High-Pressure Volumetric Analyzer to support research on the design and synthesis of MOFs and porous organic polymers.

10 May 2013

Professor Mirkin to Receive 2013 Linus Pauling Medal

The ACS Puget Sound, Oregon, and Portland Sections of the American Chemical Society awarded Chad Mirkin the 2013 Linus Pauling Medal Award for his outstanding contributions to chemistry that have merited national and international recognition.

6 May 2013

Recent NU Chemistry Grad Awarded Prestigious Fellowship

Gokhan Barin, a recent graduate of the Stoddart group, and current postdoctoral fellow in the Hupp group, has been awarded the prestigious Miller Research Fellowship at UC Berkeley in the fall.

6 May 2013

Professor Seideman Receives the 2013 Mildred Dresselhaus Award

The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) has awarded Tamar Seideman the 2013 Mildred Dresselhaus Award for her outstanding work in theoretical and numerical research.

3 May 2013

Professor Marks Ranked Among Top Local Inventors

Tobin J. Marks is currently ranked fifth among all Chicago-area inventors with 126 U.S. patents since 1980, according to recent results published in Crain's Chicago Business.

30 April 2013

Startup by Research Professor Farha Featured by Entrepreneur Magazine

Entrepreneur Magazine chose Research Associate Professor Omar Farha’s startup as one of the top three green startups.

23 April 2013

Professor Hupp to Receive JSCC International Award

The Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry (JSCC) will award Joseph Hupp the JSCC International Award. It is awarded for his advances in coordination chemistry.

23 April 2013

Professor Silverman to Receive 2013 BMS-Smissman Award

The American Chemical Society (ACS) will award Rick Silverman the 2013 Bristol-Myers Squibb Smissman Award. This is a lifetime achievement award given for his outstanding contributions to the study of enzyme inhibitors and design of medicinal agents.

23 April 2013

Professor Mirkin to Receive 2013 RSC Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year Award

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) will award Chad Mirkin the 2013 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year Award. This award recognizes an individual's contribution to the commercialisation of research.

23 April 2013

Professor Hupp to Receive 2014 Reilley Award

The Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC) will award Joseph Hupp the 2014 Charles N. Reilley Award. It is awarded for his outstanding work in electrochemistry.

22 April 2013

Professor Silverman to Receive 2013 RSC Centenary Prize

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) will award Rick Silverman the 2013 Centenary Prize. It is awarded to outstanding chemists who are also exceptional communicators.

22 April 2013

Professor Schatz to Receive 2013 RSC S F Boys-A Rahman Award

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s (RSC) Faraday Division will award George Schatz the 2013 RSC S F Boys-A Rahman Award. It is awarded for his seminal work on the quantum theory of chemical reactions, computational electrodynamics and molecular self-assembly.

19 April 2013

Professor Wasielewski to Receive 2013 RSC Environment Prize

Michael R. Wasielewski will be awarded the 2013 Royal Society of Chemistry Environment Prize. This biannual prize is awarded for his pioneering contributions to the field of artificial photosynthesis for solar energy conversion.

19 April 2013

Professor Van Duyne to Receive the 2013 RSC Sir George Stokes Award

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s (RSC) Analytical Division will award Rick Van Duyne the 2013 RSC Sir George Stokes Award. It is awarded for identifying the origins of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and for making pioneering contributions based on localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy.

10 April 2013

Read the Department of Chemistry's Spring Newsletter!

Catch up on all of the latest news from the Northwestern University Department of Chemistry with the 2013 spring edition of Chemistry Connection.

10 April 2013

Materials Research Society Selects Professor Facchetti as a 2013 Fellow

Professor Antonio Facchetti has been recognized for his distinguished research accomplishments and named as a MRS Fellow. The maximum number of new Fellow appointments each year is limited to 0.2% of the current MRS membership.

1 April 2013

Ten Chemistry Students Awarded NSF Fellowships

Congratulations to the ten current Chemistry graduate students who have been awarded NSF Fellowships this year. Eight other students received Honorable Mentions for their applications. See the names of the winners here.

1 April 2013

Michael R. Wasielewski Named Recipient of 2013 Humboldt Research Award

Professor Wasielewski received the award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany in recognition of fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights that have had a significant impact on their own discipline to date and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.

14 March 2013

Professor Mirkin Elected as Honorary Member of the MRSI

The Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) has named Chad Mirkin as an honorary member.

15 March 2013

Materials Research Society Selects Professor Mirkin as a 2013 Fellow

Professor Chad Mirkin has been recognized for his distinguished research accomplishments and named as a MRS Fellow. The maximum number of new Fellow appointments each year is limited to 0.2% of the current MRS membership.

14 March 2013

New High-capacity MOF Featured in Chemistry World and ChemViews

NU team, led by Professor Farha, has designed and synthesized a new Metal-Organic Framework with the highest methane working capacity. Their work is featured in online publications Chemistry World and Chemistry Views.

14 March 2013

Northwestern Searches to Remove Toxic Chemicals with POPs

Professor SonBinh Nguyen and colleagues have joined forces with scientists at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center to investigate a series of porous organic polymers (POPs) in search of alternative filters for gas masks.

14 March 2013

Professor Hoffman Receives Chatt Medal

The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded Professor Brian Hoffman the 2012 Joseph Chatt Medal for his major contributions to the development and application of ENDOR spectroscopy.

11 March 2013

Chemistry offers our condolences to the family of Morrison Professor Emeritus and Former Department Chair Duward Shriver

Duward Shriver passed away on March 6, 2013. Shriver spent his entire academic career at Northwestern, which began in 1961. He was named Morrison Professor of Chemistry in 1987 and served as Department Chair from 1992 to 1995.

11 March 2013

L. Carroll King Lecture Series

Professor Brian P. Coppola, University of Michigan, will present the 2013 L. Carroll King Lectures today (3/11) and tomorrow (3/12). Today’s lecture, “Lessons from Three Decades of Subversion” will be held at the Pancoe/Abbott Auditorium at 4 pm. Tomorrow’s lecture, “Do Real Work, Not Homework” will be held in Tech L211 at 1 pm.

21 February 2013

Professor Kanatzidis Receives the Cheetham Lecture Award

Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis was awarded the Cheetham Lecture Award. The award was presented at the Annual Materials Research Outreach Program Symposium on February 5th, 2013.

20 February 2013

Professor Mirkin Presents on the Research Behind His New Set of Building Blocks at the AAAS Annual Meeting

Professor Chad Mirkin discussed his development of nanoparticle and DNA-based building blocks at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting held in Boston.

19 February 2013

Professor Mirkin Discusses His Revolutionary SNAs Development at the AAAS Annual Meeting

Professor Chad Mirkin discussed spherical nucleic acids and their applications in therapeutics and diagnostics in one of two presentations given at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual meeting.

14 February 2013

Former NU Chemists Receive 2013 Sloan Research Fellowships

Sloan Fellows include NU alumni Julianne Gibbs-Davis and Khalid Salaita, who both received their PhDs in 2006, and Dwight Seferos who completed his postdoctoral work for Prof. Mirkin. Juli completed her postdoctoral work with the advisory of Prof. Geiger, Nguyen, and Scheidt.

13 February 2013