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PETER CURTIN
It is with great sadness that the Department reports on Saturday, Oct. 10, Chemistry Department graduate student Peter N. Curtin, passed away while running the Baltimore Marathon. Peter, a graduate student in inorganic chemistry, was in his second year in the research group of Daniel Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry, and was recently selected to receive a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. There will be a Memorial Service at the MIT Chapel on Thursday, October 22, 2009, at 3:30 p.m.
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| Joe Francisco |
Dick Schrock |
Tim Swager |
Paula Hammond |
K.Jones-Prather |
A.Chakraborty |
Cathy Drennan |
The NOBCChE NE Regional Meeting is being hosted by the MIT Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering on Friday, October 23 and Saturday, October 24.The meeting will open on Friday 3:00 PM at LeMeridien Hotel, 20 Sydney Street, Cambridge, with Professor Joseph S. Francisco, President-Elect of ACS and William E. Moore Distinguished Professor—Physical Chemistry, Purdue University, opening the session. Career planning guidance will be offered following Professor Francisco's talk, and MIT students and students from around the northeast region will be presenting posters.Professor Richard R. Schrock, Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry, will be giving the opening talk on Saturday morning, and NOBCChE is very excited and appreciative to have a Nobel Laureate presenting. Professor Paula Hammond, Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering, will be delivering the Plenary Lecture on Saturday afternoon. Professor Hammond is a founding member of the MIT NOBCChE chapter, and it is with great pride that NOBCChE welcomes her as the Plenary Lecturer!Professor Timothy M. Swager, John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry and Head of the Department, and Professor Hammond will give a workshop on Careers in Chemistry for Graduate students. Professor Kristala Jones-Prather, Chemical Engineering Department and Professor Arup Chakraborty, Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biological Engineering, will present a workshop on Applying to Graduate School for undergraduates on Saturday morning. Professor Catherine L. Drennan, Professor of Chemistry and Biology, and Investigator and Professor, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will present a talk during the technical program. Technical talks are being given both in the morning and afternoon, and representatives from several companies will be available to chat with everyone about opportunities in their company. |
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Professor JoAnne Stubbe wins National Medal of Science
Professor JoAnne Stubbe, Novartis Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biology, was presented the National Medal of Science by President Obama, at the White House, on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 1:30 PM.
Click here to watch the ceremony
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The Department of Chemistry is very pleased to host Professor John Harkless, Martin Luther King Visiting Professor, for the 2009-2010 academic year. An Associate Professor of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at Howard University, his research focuses on three topics:
1) Quantum Monte Carlo wave function development
2) Electronic structure of metallic systems
3) Electronic excitations.
Professor Harkless is currently the Vice President of NOBCChE, the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers. |
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