News

September 2009

NSF Graduate Fellowship to April Daigle

Congratulations to 2nd-year graduate student April Daigle for another highly competitive national award. April earlier received an honorable mention in the fellowship competition (see news from May 2009 below), but her award was upgraded.  April joins several other recent chemistry grad student NSF fellowship awardees, including recent graduate Brandon Smith Ph.D. '09, Will O'Neal Ph.D. '07, and Hamp Sessions Ph.D. '06.

Hughes wins 2010 ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry

Congratulations to Russ Hughes for this prestigious national award.  He joins a list of distinguished chemists including our own Dave Lemal, the 2002 winner.  You can learn more about the award and its sponsor, Honeywell, on the ACS web page, here.

June 11, 2009

2009 Chemistry Senior Major Awards and Prizes

Congratulations to these graduating seniors on their awards, which were announced at the department's annual lunch.  See more details on the prizes and previous winners here.

2009 Haseltine Chemistry-Physics Prize Tiberiu G. Moga '09

The Chandler T. White 1916 Research Prize Jeffrey A. Garber '09 and Katherine H. Schiavoni '09

The John L. Zabriskie Jr. '61 Senior Chemistry Prize Reem A. Hannun '09 and Eric M. Padegimas '09

The Stephen W. Wright '81 Pfizer Green Chemistry Award Adam J. Schoenfeld '09 and Ashley A. Zuzek '09

The Hypercube Scholar Award Kathryn S. Twyman '09

American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry Bridget A. Alex '08

The Paul R. Shafer & Douglas M. Bowen Award Alexandra East '09 and Reem A. Hannun '09

American Institute of Chemists Foundation Student Award Chris K. Lim '09

The T.J. Rodgers '70 Book Prize
Jonathan D. Eisenberg '09
Tiberiu G. Moga '09
Shasta S. Small '09
Matthew A. Wean '09

2009 Merck Index Prize
Sean T. Jones '09
Allison H. Kay '09
Brett B. Palm '09
Bailey Yuguan Shen '09

June 2009

In memoriam: Paul Veale (1951-2009)

Paul Veale, until recently Senior Lecturer and Director of the Organic Chemistry Laboratories, died on May 28, 2009.  Paul was a dedicated teacher and a wonderful colleague; we miss him.  Memorial contributions may be made to Cathedral High School 260 Surrey Rd. Springfield, MA, 01118.  Look here for the obituary in The Dartmouth.

May 2009

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships: Honorable Mention for April Daigle

1st-year graduate student April Daigle received an Honorable Mention in the nationwide competition for NSF graduate research fellowships.  Congratulations!  For more about this NSF program, click here.

May 2009

Colette Quinn wins Filene Teaching Award! 

Chemistry graduate student Colette Quinn was one of three 2009 winners of Dartmouth's Filene teaching award for graduate student teaching assistants.  Dean of Graduate Studies Brian Pogue wrote "Each of these graduate students demonstrated outstanding dedication and commitment to teaching.  They managed individually to be innovative and creative in and out of the classroom, dedicated to their teaching, and to serve as mentors and role models for undergraduate and other graduate students."  See the graduate studies page for more details and the other winners.

March 2009

Dartmouth Chemistry grad students at the ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City

Thanks to Sara Campbell for this picture of graduate students (left to right, Anna Greene, Matt Cain, Brian Anderson Ph.D. 2008 (now a postdoc at U. Utah), Sara Campbell, Tim Chapp, plus Brandon Smith in the front), all of whom made presentations in Utah.

March 2009

Summer Zabriskie Fellowships have been awarded to these chemistry majors for research in summer 2009: Emma Nairn, Shreoshi Majumdar, Peter Zhao.  Thanks again to John Zabriskie '61.

February 13, 2009

Zabriskie Fellowships awarded to chemistry majors

Congratulations to these chemistry majors, who have been awarded John L. Zabriskie Jr. '61  fellowships to support their thesis research.  Thanks to Dr. Zabriskie for his generous support of undergraduate research.

Bridget A. Alex, Chris K. Lim, Reem A. Hannun, Ashley A. Zuzek, Katherine H. Schiavoni, Bailey Yuguan Shen, Allison H. Kay, Sean T. Jones, Jeffrey A. Garber, Zachariah H. Foda, Shasta S. Small, Hanh M. Nguyen, Eric M. Padegimas, Adam J. Schoenfeld, Kathryn S. Twyman, Pavel A. Sotskov

January 9, 2009

New protein function described in Cell by Dartmouth chemists

Postdoc Jared Cochran, undergrad Natasha Mulko '07, Professor Jon Kull and their collaborators reported a new mechanism for function of the motor protein kinesin. See Dartmouth's news release for more, or read the paper yourself here.  The photo, courtesy of Joe Mehling '69, shows Jon (left) and Jared (right) in the lab, while the figure (thanks, Jared) shows protein NOD at the end of a microtubule.

January 2009

Sabathia to NY, Teixeira to NY, Grubbs to NY

December 2008

New web pages go live

You're looking at the newly revamped web pages of Dartmouth College's chemistry department.  We hope you like them!  Please send comments and suggestions for improvement.

Another new page: a grad student group one on Facebook.

November 2008

Chemistry major Kathryn Twyman '09 earns Rhodes Scholarship

Kathryn S. Twyman ’09, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, has won a Canadian Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford in England.  Kathryn is a double major in chemistry and physics with a minor in biology and rows on the Crew Team.  At Oxford, she plans to study for a D. Phil. in physical chemistry; she already has experience in this field as a summer 2008 Zabriskie research fellow with Robert Cantor. Kathryn is also a chemistry representative in the Peer Academic Link (PAL) program.

See Dartmouth's news release for more.