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• Two recent chemistry undergraduates, Koyel Bhattacharyya and Amanda Shing, have received Fullbright scholarships to study abroad.
• Congratulations Graduate Students
• Congratulations Seniors
• Professor Alice Y. Ting is promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

• Junior, Sid Creutz, receives Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
• Professor Stephen J. Lippard receives the Pauling Medal
• Senior, Annelise Beck, has been awarded the Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA) Senior Academic Award
• Professor Daniel G. Nocera, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
• Professor made Time Magazine's 100
• Georgily Teverovskiy, a graduate student in the Buchwald Group has been selected for a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship.
• Marcus Gibson, a graduate student in the Drennan Group, has been selected for a National Science Foundation fellowship.
• Graduate student, Darcy Wanger (Bawendi Group) has been selected to receive a Hertz Fellowship funded by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.

• Three Junior Faculty join the Department.
• Professor Mohammad Movassaghi receives 2009 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.
• Justin Kim and Dr. James A. Ashenhurst of the Movassaghi group report (Science 2009, 324, 238-241) a concise enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-11,11'-dideoxyverticillin A via a strategy inspired by their biosynthetic hypothesis for this alkaloid.
  

• Cummins Lab: Facile Synthesis of AsP3
  Cossairt B.M., Diawara M.C., and Cummins C.C., Science, 2009, 323, 602.
• Professor Mohammad Movassaghi has been selected to receive the Hofflmann-La Roche Inc. (Roche) 2009 Excellence in Chemistry Award.

• The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has selected Professor JoAnne Stubbe, Novartis Professor of Chemistry and Professor Biology as its 2009 recipient of the Prelog Medal.

• Nature Chemical Biology reports that MIT Chemistry graduate student Weerawat Runguphan, Professor Sarah E. O'Connor, Latham Family Career Development Associate Professor of Chemistry and MIT chemistry graduate student Peter Bernhardt, have transformed an alkaloid biosynthetic gene with reengineered substrate specificity into Catharanthus roseus.

• Professor Timothy M. Swager, John D. MacArthur Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry has been selected to receive the 2008 John Scott Award.
• Joseph S. Francisco, Ph. D. '83 and William E. Moore, Distinguished Professor at Purdue University, has been selected as the ACS President-Elect for 2009.
• MIT Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and NOBCChE (The National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers) are pleased to announce the establishment of a Technology Education Partnership (TEP). This Partnership will help increase opportunities for minority undergraduate and graduate students in each department as we work collaboratively with the NOBCChE Organization to promote our mutual educational goals.
• Two-Electron Reduction of a Vanadium(V) Nitride by CO to Release Cyanate and Open a Coordination Site Jared S. Silvia and Christopher C. Cummins*.

• Professor Richard R. Schrock: Highly efficient molybdenum-based catalysts for enantioselective alkene metathesis.

• Griffin Group: In Situ Temperature-Jump Dynamic Nuclear Polarization: Enhanced Sensitivity in Two Dimensional 13C−13C Correlation Spectroscopy in Solution.
• Lippard Group: Targeted delivery of cisplatin to prostate cancer cells by aptamer functionalized Pt(IV) prodrug-PLGA–PEGnanoparticles.

• Omar K. Ahmad of the Movassaghi group reports the first example of a stereospecific transition metal-catalyzed conversion of allylic electrophiles to the corresponding monoalkyl diazene intermediates.
• Alice Y. Ting, the Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Associate Professor of Chemistry, has been selected to receive a 2008 NIH Pioneer Award.
• The Executive Board of the American Physical Society has awarded Robert W. Field, Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry, the 2009 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, endowed by the NEC Corporation.

• ACS 2009 NATIONAL AWARD WINNERS: Three Chemistry Department Professors, namely Mohammad Movassaghi, Daniel G. Nocera and JoAnne Stubbe, have been selected as recipients of awards administered by the American Chemical Society for 2009.
• Professor Moungi G. Bawendi, Lester Wolfe Professor in Chemistry, recalls his 18 years of teaching which incudes freshmen general chemistry course 5.112 (Principles of Chemical Science), among other courses.
• Professor Richard R. Schrock, a Nobel laureate and the Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry has been working on the problem for nearly 30 years. In 2003, he reported the first and only catalytic productions of ammonia from nitrogen gas, using the metal molybdenum as a catalyst.

• Daniel G. Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry has developed a simple method to split water molecules and produce oxygen gas, a discovery that paves the way for large-scale use of solar power.
• Cummins Lab: Cleavage of the N≡N bond of dinitrogen, to form two metal nitrogen triple-bonded complexes, at ambient temperature was first reported by Laplaza & Cummins in 1995.
• Lippard Lab: A compound that accumulates in cells more readily than a commonly used colorectal cancer drug may be just as useful in treating colorectal tumors.

• The Ting Lab has designed a new type of probe.
• Hooding 2008 - Images.

• Professor Catherine L. Drennan is selected as HHMI Investigator.
• Professor Stephen L. Buchwald and Timothy M. Swager elected to the National Academy of Science.
• Professor Richard R. Schrock elected to Royal Society (London).
• Professor Sylvia T. Ceyer receives The Arthur C. Smith Award.
• Graduate Student, Christian Schubert, presented with 2008 Goodwin Medal.

• Professor Steven R. Tannenbaum, Professor of Chemistry and Underwood-Prescott Professor of Toxicology, Biological Engineering Division, is the recipient of the Second AACR-CICR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research.
• Professor Christopher C. Cummins is elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Professor Daniel G. Nocera will direct the Solar Revolution Project (SRP).
• The Board of Directors of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has awarded the Camille Dreyfus-Teacher Scholar Award to Professor Mohammad Movassaghi.

• Movassaghi selected for 2008 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
• The Ting Lab is interested in developing new site-specific reactions for protein labeling, using enzymes that recognize an acceptor sequence with exquisite specificity but that can utilize unnatural probes with useful bioorthogonal functional groups for labeling, such as azides and alkynes.
• Annelise Beck '09 has been awarded a 2008 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.

• Stubbe receives National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences.
• New Mechanism for Energy Flow in Polyatomic Molecule.
• Lippard Lab images show macrophages infected with anthrax.