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Congratulations to Professor Scott Snyder on receiving the 2009/2010 Eli Lilly Grantee Award. Each year for the past 40 years the Eli Lilly award has honored young synthetic organic chemists for their excellence in research. As one of the three awardees this year, Professor Snyder will receive a $100K research grant over two years and will present the results of his work at the Lilly Grantee Symposium, to be held in Indianapolis IN in 2012. Professor James Leighton was the last recipient from Columbia's chemistry department to receive the Lilly Grantee Award. You can read about the activities of Professor Snyder's research group on the group website.
The Eli Lilly Grantee Award has existed for 40 years, and each year honors 3 young synthetic organic chemists for excellence in research. This year i am one of those recipients and will receive $100,000 in research funds to be used over the course of the two years, and will have the opporutnity to present ym research at the 2012 Lilly Grantee Symposium to be held in Indianapolis, IN. The last recipient of the award within the department was Prof. James Leighton.
CU chemistry undergraduates were prominently represented
among awardees at the 2008 and 2009 McKnight competitions in Molecular
Sciences, sponsored by the University of Texas southwestern campus.
Seniors Anish Shah (photo, left) and Noam Prywes (photo, right) placed first
and second, respectively, in the Chemistry portion of the competition this
year and undergraduate Rathi Srinivas took first place in the Molecular
Biophysics division at last year's competition. Anish worked on a collaborative
project for Professors Scott Snyder and Brent Stockwell, and Noam's project was
supervised by Professor Ruben Gonzalez. Professor Gonzalez was also
Rathi's advisor during the 2008 competition. McKnight awards carry cash
prizes of $2,000 for the first place finisher and $1,000 for the second place
finisher in each category. You can learn more about the McKnight
competition on the awards website.
"Exploring Conductance Switching Properties of Molecular Scale Devices: A Computational Approach"
Presented by Prof. Barry Dunietz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
A computational approach is used and developed to study electron transport through molecular and nano scale devices. New models and methods to describe transient electron conductancethrough molecular systems under the influence of time dependent perturbations are used to studyquantum interference effects affecting the conductance. Coherence-driven processes related to electrontransport are investigated.
We will also describe several studies on molecular scale systems and provide insight into mechanismsunderlying electronic-transport switching properties. Several recent high-profile experimentalstudies achieving molecular scale conductance are considered. These involve metal recognitionproperties of short peptides and fabricated molecular sockets based on surface confined terpyridineligands. If time allows we will also describe: Spin-dependent electronic transport through a Porphyrinring ligating an Fe(II) atom, and contact geometry and orientation effects of conjugatedmolecular field-effect transistors.
Hosted by Prof. Richard Friesner
Meet the speaker at 1:30pm in room 328 Havemeyer
Tea & cookies at 4:00pm in room 328 Havemeyer
Seminar at 4:30pm in room 209 Havemeyer
Congratulations to Professor and department Chair Colin
Nuckolls on receiving the 2009 Lee Hendrik Baekeland award. Established
in 1944 by the New Jersey section of the American Chemical Society, the
Baekeland award is conferred every two years on an American chemist under 40
years of age in recognition of accomplishments in pure or industrial
chemistry. Professor Nuckolls becomes the third Columbia chemistry
faculty member to receive the Baekeland award. The previous awardees from
our department are Professors Ronald Breslow and Gilbert
Stork. Professor Nuckolls will receive the award at a
symposium and banquet, to be held on November 13. You can read more about
the award, including a listing of past winners and the symposium program, on
the Baekeland award website.