Chemformation

Tuesday, March 4, 2003

Physical Chemistry Seminar Series

Room 2-105 at 4PM

Greg O. Sitz, University of Texas

“State-to-state scattering of H2 and D2 from surfaces”

Wednesday, March 5, 2003

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar Series

Room 6-120 at 5 p.m.

Roy Planalp, University of New Hampshire

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Thursday, March 6, 2003

Organic Syntheses, Inc. Lectures

Room 6-120 at 4 p.m.

Amir Hoveyda, Boston College

“Development of New Catalytic Asymmetric Methods and Applications to Natural Product Synthesis”

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Timothy F. Jamison, M.I.T.

“Cascades and CatalyticMulti-Component Coupling Reactions for Total Synthesis”

Friday, March 7, 2003

Organic Chemistry Seminar Series

Room 56-114 at 4PM

Atsushi Abiko, Venture Laboratory, Kyoto Institute of Technology

“The Boron-mediated Aldol Reaction of Carboxylic Esters”

Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Physical Chemistry Seminar Series

Room 2-105 at 4PM

Ad Bax, National Institutes of Health

“Weak Alignment Offers New Opportunities in the NMR Study of Proteins and Nucleic Acids”

Wednesday, March 12, 2003

Harvard/MIT Inorganic Chemistry Seminar Series

Room 6-120 at 5 p.m.

Congratulations to Profs. Cao and Tokmakoff

The Chemistry Department is pleased to announce the promotions of Jianshu Cao and Andrei Tokmakoff to the rank of Associate Professor.

Prof. Cao

Prof. Tokmakoff

Thursday, March 6, 2003 7pm in Room 10-250

ìGlobal Environmental Issues: Effects on the Atmosphere and the Biosphereî

Nobel Laureates Eric Chivian and Mario Molina

Mario Molina gives Ford/MIT Nobel Lecture

Nobel Laureates Eric Chivian and Mario Molina will speak on “Global Environmental Issues: Effects on the Atmosphere and the Biosphere” on Thursday, March 6, 2003 at 7pm in Room 10-250. The lecture will be broadcast live over the Internet. To access the broadcast go to: http://web.mit.edu/nobel-lectures/

This lecture is part of the Ford/MIT Nobel Laureate Lecture Series and is open to all members of the MIT community. There will be a reception in Lobby 13 following the lecture.

Mario Molina is an Institute Professor involved in developing our understanding of the stratospheric ozone layer and its susceptibility to human-made disturbances. Dr. Eric Chivian is Director of The Center for Health and the Global Environment founded at Harvard Medical School to further investigate and promote awareness of the human health consequences of global environmental change.

Professor Molina shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in atmospheric chemistry. Dr. Chivian is a co-founder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.

Graduate Student Hernandez Receives MLK Leadership Award

Graduate student Hector Hernandez was one of three recipients of the Dr. Martin Luther King Leadership Awards presented at MIT’s 29th annual breakfast to celebrate Dr. King.

The breakfast took place on Friday, February 14 in the La Sala de Puerto Rico in the Stratton Student Center. The keynote speaker was Julian Bond, a professor at the University of Virginia and chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Leadership Award winners also included Professor Jonathan King of molecular biology and business executive Chiquita V. White (S.B. 1985), were introduced by Chancellor Phillip L. Clay.

Hernandez, a graduate of the University of South Florida, has received the Department of Chemistry Teaching Award. He has worked in the laboratory of Catherine L. Drennan, assistant professor of chemistry, since July 2000. “Hector has given back to our community by doing a superb job as a teaching assistant,” Drennan said in her nominating letter. “He has already inspired minority undergraduate students to pursue graduate studies and has significantly improved the quality of life for minority and non-minority chemistry graduate students.”

Read the complete article at the news office web site http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2003/feb05/mlk-awards.html

Prof. Julian Bond and Hector Hernandez

NEW OPS/FACILITIES MANAGER IS APPOINTED

The department welcomes Scott Wade as the new Ops/Facilities Manager for the department. He will oversee operations and security for the Chemistry Department.

Scott can be reached at x4-0145, cell: 617-416-1660, swade@mit.edu. He shares office space with Rich Wilk on the second floor.

Scott was born and raised in CT, and spent 3 years in the Army Corp. of Engineers. He relocated to Boston 11 years ago and worked for the New England Shelter For Homeless Veterans as Director of Direct Services, overseeing the facilities, operation/security departments and project manager for construction development.

Scott and his wife have been married for 8 years and are expecting their first child in September. They enjoy spending summer weekends on their boat in New Hampshire.

Scott Wade

CUT DOWN ON THE SPAM (unsolicited, unwanted e-mail)

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Having a computer determine if an e-mail message is spam is a very difficult problem and some messages will be mis-labeled. For this and other reasons we are not filtering your e-mail based on this flag. We also recommend that you review the spam messages for legitimate e-mail.

Because legitimate e-mail, particularly e-mail newsletters such as weekly savings from airlines, resemble spam, we have included a feature, Allow Lists, to always flag messages from certain recipients as not spam.

For detailed instructions on setting up the your e-mail client and using the features mentioned above, go to http://web.mit.edu/is/help/nospam/