The Neutron Scattering Society of America, which advances neutron scattering research in the United States, just named Professor Robert Cava as a 2012 NSSA Fellow for his work in “the outstanding applications of neutron diffraction to the understanding of complex materials and advocacy for the field, particularly among young scientists.”  The NSSA Fellowship Program was established to recognize members who have made significant contributions to the neutron scattering community i

The Chirik Group, in collaboration with Momentive Performance Materials Inc., has developed a new iron hydrosilylation technology that is featured in the February 3, 2012 issue of Science magazine article .

The paper "Iron Catalysis for Selective Anti-Markovnikov Alkene Hydrosilylation Using Tertiary Silanes" is the result of research conducted by graduate students Aaron Tondreau (now a postdoc at ETH Zurich) and Crisita Atienza of the Chirik group, Professor Paul Chirik, and resear

The first in a series of profiles of graduate students and post-docs in the Department of Chemistry across the spectrum of specialties: organic, inorganic, physical, chemical biology and theoretical. This profile features fourth-year graduate student Julia Kalow in the organic chemistry group of faculty member Abigail Doyle.

Robert J. Cava, the Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry, is the recipient of a 2012 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Prize. The prize is worth €60,000 and will facilitate more extensive cooperation between Professor Cava and his German hosts, the Mainz chemist Professor Dr. Claudia Felser and the Karlsruhe physicist Professor Dr. Hilbert von Löhneysen. Cava plans to go to Germany for an extended research stay this year.
Cava is among the world's leading research

Salvatore Torquato, Professor of Chemistry and Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, has been awarded a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics. This competitive, honorific fellowship provides funds to faculty for up to a semester-long research leave from classroom teaching and administrative obligations. The goal of the Simons Fellows Program is to make it easier to take such leaves, or to extend sabbatical leaves by an extra half-year. The program provides sa

Senior Olivia Waring, a chemistry major with an interest in Chinese language and translation, has been awarded the 2012 Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of the highest awards given to Princeton University undergraduates. Waring, a native of Randolph, N.J, plans to use the Sachs award to pursue postgraduate studies in linguistics and philology at the University of Oxford, with an emphasis on Mandarin Chinese and Tibetan languages. Her hope is to help revive disappearin

Princeton science writer, Morgan Kelly, explains a shortcut process for producing pharmaceutical-like compounds that was developed by members of the MacMillan group: lead author Andrew McNally, research associate; and co-author Christopher Prier, graduate student.
Princeton technique puts chemistry breakthoughs on the fast track
 

The Princeton University Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Professor Garnet K.-L. Chan will be joining our faculty effective January 2012, where he will be the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry.  Professor Chan’s research is in theoretical chemistry.
Prior to his appointment at Princeton, Professor Chan was an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University. He has received a number of notable awards including the ACS Award in Pure

The Journal of Chemical Physics chose an image from the manuscript of Yang Jiao and Salvatore Torquato entitled, "A Packing of Truncated Tetrahedra that Nearly Fills All of Space and its Melting Properties," as the journal cover featured in volume 135, issue 15 on October 21, 2011. The Journal of Chemical Physics ranks number one in total citations by the ISI with an impact factor of 2.920 in the category of Atomic, Molecular and Chemical Physics. A link to the manuscript is featured o

The American Physical Society announced today, Sept. 26, 2011, that Professor Robert J. Cava of Princeton University will be the recipient of the 2012 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials sponsored by IBM. The prize was established to recognize and encourage outstanding achievement in the science and application of new materials. The award specifically recognizes Professor Cava's work, "For pioneering discovery of new strongly correlated materials, especially novel superconductors,