The achievements of Columbia’s chemistry department were recognized recently by six awards from three scholarly organizations. Awards went to Professors Breslow, Danishefsky, Nakanishi, Snyder, and Turro and a graduate student in Professor Nuckolls' group received an ACS fellowship. The awards are described in more detail below.
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September 27: Gassman Award to Prof. Ronald Breslow
Professor Ronald Breslow has been named the recipient of the Paul Gassman Award of the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society for outstanding service to the organic chemistry community. Awarded every two years, the Gassman award is presented at the Organic Division’s fall executive committee dinner.
More information on the Breslow group research program can be found at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/fac-bios/breslow/faculty.html
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September 27: Prof. Turro Awarded 2007 Nichols Medal
The 2007 Nichols Medal of the New York Section of the American Chemical Society has been won by Prof. Nick Turro. Prof Turro was cited “for pioneering and interdisciplinary research on the photochemistry of organic molecules and for the invention of novel and general methods for investigation of organic reactions of supramolecular systems and the development of organic systems whose reactivity is extremely sensitive to the application of weak magnetic fields.”
Past winners of the Medal in Columbia’s chemistry department include Professors Ronald Breslow, Sam Danishefsky, Koji Nakanishi, and Gilbert Stork.
More information on the research of Prof. Turro’s group can be found at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/fac-bios/turro/faculty.html
Information on the Nichols Medal can be found at: http://newyorkacs.org/history_nyacs.html#short
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September 8: Silver Medal Award to Prof. Koji Nakanishi
Prof. Koji Nakanishi as been awarded the Silver Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Chemical Ecology by the International Society of Chemical Ecology. The award will be presented in Germany next July.
More information on Prof. Nakanishi's work can be found at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/fac-bios/nakanishi/faculty.html
Information on the International Society of Chemical Ecology can be found at: http://www.chemecol.org/meetings/meetings.htm
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August 30: Prof. Sam Danishefsky Receives Adams Award
Columbia Professor Sam Danishefsky has been awarded the 2007 Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry by the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. The Adams Award is given biannually to an individual for outstanding contributions to research in organic chemistry. Prof. Danishefsky is the second winner from Columbia's chemistry department. Prof. Gilbert Stork received the award in 1991.
More information about Professor Danishefsky's research can be found at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/fac-bios/danishefsky/faculty.html.
Information about the Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry can be found at: http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=awards%5Cadams.html.
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August 21: Prof. Scott A. Snyder Receives Dreyfus Award
Columbia Professor Scott Snyder is one of just 12 new faculty members across the nation to receive a New Faculty Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. Professor Snyder, who joined Columbia's faculty in July, receives an unrestricted grant of $50,000 to be used toward his research program devoted to understanding and advancing the synthesis of complex organic structures found in natural products.
More information on Prof. Snyder's work can be found at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/fac-bios/snyder/faculty.html
Information on the Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award Program is available at: http://www.dreyfus.org/nf.shtml#introduction
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September 8: Matthew Myers Receives ACS Organic Division Fellowship
Matt Myers, a fourth-year graduate student in Professor Colin Nuckolls group, has been awarded a 2006-2007 Graduate Fellowship by the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry. The fellowship includes a stipend and support for travel to the 2007 National Organic Symposium, where Matt will present a poster on his work.
More information on the Nuckolls group research program can be found at: http://nuckolls.chem.columbia.edu/
Information on ACS Graduate Fellowships can be found at: http://organicdivision.org/fellowships.html
