May 14, 2012. Princeton, NJ. Julia Ann Kalow, a fourth-year graduate student in the Doyle group, has been awarded the Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowship for the 2012-13 academic year. This honorific fellowship was awarded by the Faculty Committee of the Graduate School on nomination by the dean of the Graduate School in recognition of outstanding performance and professional promise for her work in the Department of Chemistry.

 

Established in 1912 in memory of Charlo

May 10, 2012. London, UK. Announcing its 2012 slate of awards, the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Chemistry recognized three Department of Chemistry faculty: Robert J. Cava, Tom Muir, and David W. MacMillan.

Cava, the Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry, received the Stephanie L. Kwolek Award, offered biennially in recognition for "exceptional contributions to the area of materials chemistry from a scientist working outside the UK."

Muir, the Van Zandt Williams Jr

 

May 1, 2012. Washington D.C. The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of Professor John T. "Jay" Groves, holder of the Hugh Stott Taylor Chair of Chemistry, to membership in the Academy. Groves is among 84 new members, four of whom are Princeton University faculty, and 21 foreign associates from 14 countries recognized for their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

 

Groves has been a professor in the Department of

The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Mohammad Seyedsayamdost will join the chemistry faculty this fall as assistant professor.
Seyedsayamdost received his Ph.D. from MIT under the direction of JoAnne Stubbe, and completed post-doctoral studies at the Harvard Medical School under the direction of Jon Clardy.
His research addresses important problems in chemical biology and mechanistic enzymology. Seyedsayamdost will investigate microbial symbiotic interactions as a means to d

4/20/2012 London – David MacMillan, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and chairman of the department, has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society. Fellows and Foreign Members, who are elected for life on the basis of scientific excellence, have included Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin, Francis Crick, James Watson and Stephen Hawking. Today there are approximately 1,500 Fellows and Foreign Mem

4/18/12 Princeton, NJ - Fifth-year graduate student Adam Hopkins, in the group of professor Salvatore Torquato, has received Princeton University's 2012 Ray Grimm Memorial Prize in Computational Physics in recognition of his outstanding research achievements, academic merit and creativity. This distinction is accompanied by an award of $4,000.
The award citation specifically acknowledges Hopkins, "for his contributions to the field of computational physics that span from fundamental in

4/17/2012 Cambridge, MA – David MacMillan, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry and chairman of the department, was elected into membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences today. The class of 2012 includes 220 new members, continuing a 230-plus year history of recognizing some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, and civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders.

One of the nation's most prestigio

April 3, 2012. Four first-year Department of Chemistry graduate students have been announced as award recipients of this year's NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The awardees are: Esther Frederick from Yeshiva University, in the Bernasek Group; Max Friedfeld from University of Virginia, in the Chirik Group; Erin Gray from Furman University, in the Doyle Group; and Jake Herb from Muhlenberg College, in the Bocarsly Group.
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and su

 
Ridge, NY, February 21, 2012 - Professor Annabella Selloni, the David B. Jones Professor of Chemistry, has been recognized by the American Physical Society as an "Outstanding Referee" for 2012.
The American Physical Society initiated a highly selective award program in 2008 to recognize scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. The program annually recognizes approximately 150 of the 60,000 currently activ

The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that Abigail Doyle, assistant professor of chemistry, is one of three Princeton University professors selected as 2012 Sloan Research Fellows. Awarded annually since 1955, the fellowships are given to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders.

"Today’s Sloan Research Fellows are tomorrow’s Nobel Prize winners," said Dr.