FIESER POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

The Mary Fieser Postdoctoral Fellowships Program seeks to enhance diversity and excellence in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) of Harvard University by providing postdoctoral fellowship support to women and groups that are historically underrepresented in science and to others whose background, experiences and research interests will contribute to academic diversity in CCB. Promising scholars male and female who have been historically underrepresented in chemistry (including but not limited to African American, American Indian, and Hispanic/Latino) are encouraged to apply.

Up to 12 fellowships may be awarded in 2008. Fellowships will be for an initial period of one year, with potential for renewal of up to one year (a two-year maximum level of support). Stipends will be targeted to the NRSA year ?0? amount and will include employee benefits as well as the opportunity to enroll in an employee health plan. Applicants are required to have completed all PhD requirements prior to arrival. All applicants must be eligible to work in the United States before arrival.

The application deadline for the second award will be July 15, with decisions announced on August 15, 2008.

For more information on the application process and to apply, please click here.

For questions regarding the Mary Fieser Postdoctoral Fellowship, please contact Helen Schwickrath

CCB COMMUNITY

Jeremy R. Knowles, 1935-2008, in memoriam

It is with great regret that we note the passing of our friend and colleague, Professor Jeremy Knowles, on April 3, 2008. His Memorial Service will be held on Friday, May 30th at 11 am in Memorial Church, Harvard Yard. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a contribution to the charity of your choice. For additional information, please visit http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2008/04.03/99-knowles.html

Congratulations to Professor Eric Jacobsen, elected on April 29th to the National Academy of Sciences, in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. The Academy was established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln that calls on it to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology.

Professor Sunney Xie was elected on April 28th to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest honorary societies and independent policy research centers, founded in 1780. "The academy honors excellence by electing to membership remarkable men and women who have made preeminent contributions to their fields, and to the world," said AAAS President Emilio Bizzi.

Lydia Carmosino, Lab Manager of the Verdine group, has been awarded the Warren R. Stockwood Prize, and will be honored at a luncheon later in the year. The Stockwood Prize is intended to recognize the "exceptional and sustained contributions" of CCB's nonacademic employees, and is awarded on a non-regular basis to individuals selected by the Faculty. Previous award recipients are Jerome Connors (October, 1998), Robert Hoijer (June, 2000), Carol Gonzaga (August, 2002), and Gregory Tucci (May, 2006).

CCB is happy to recognize Matt McDonald as a recipient of the CCB Staff Administrator Award, given for exceptional and continuing performance in the service of the Chemistry & Chemical Biology Department.

We are delighted to announce the participants in CCB’s Summer Minority and Female Undergraduate Fellows Program:

Isha Agarwal, working with Professor David Liu
Blair Greenwald and Hai Xi Li, working with Professor Gregory Verdine
Megan Blewitt, working with Professor E. J. Corey, also named the Novartis Summer Fellow
Tamara Halkina, working with Professor David Evans, also named the Wayland E. Noland Summer Fellow

Congratulations to the following teaching fellows who have been awarded Certificates of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching for fall semester courses:

Isha Agarwal, Chemistry 17
Timothy Cook, Chemistry 17
Charles Goodhue, Chemistry 17

Takeru Furuya, Chemistry 30
Israel Meir, Chemistry 30
Benjamin Stanzl, Chemistry 30
Yikai Wang, Chemistry 30

Andrea Jonas, Chemistry 105

Alejandro Perdomo, Chemistry 160

Yimon Aye, Chemistry 206

CCB is pleased to announce that Xiaoying Liu of the Friend group has been named winner of the Student Award of the ACS Division of Petroleum Chemistry! The award recognizes her outstanding presentation at the 2007 Fall ACS meeting.

On Thursday, April 17th at 8 pm in Pfizer Lecture Hall, the 22nd Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest was presented to Corey group alumnus Dr. John Katzenellenbogen of the University of Illinois, for his research on estrogen receptors. The Esselen Awards are given by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Katzenellenbogen's award lecture, following the presentation, was entitled "Estrogens and Estrogen Receptors as a Nexus of Chemistry and Biology in Health and Disease."

Congratulations to Brian Liau of the Shair Group, John Sadowski of the Liu Group, and Leslie Vogt of the Aspuru-Guzik Group, our newest NSF graduate fellows!

Congratulations to Helen Corriero and Purvang Patel, first recipients of the CCB Laboratory Administrator Award! This award is being given to Helen, of the Kahne and Walker Groups, and Purvang, of the Lieber Group, "for exceptional and continuing performance in the service of the Chemistry & Chemical Biology Department."

The ACS has awarded Prof. Eric Jacobsen its Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods and Prof. Joanna Aizenberg the Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry! Both award addresses took place at the April ACS meeting in New Orleans.

In memoriam Warren R. Stockwood, 1921-2008:

Associate Director of the Department of Chemistry for many years, Warren supervised purchasing and personnel with his staff in the entryway to Mallinckrodt and was held in high esteem by faculty, staff and generations of graduate students. Warren worked at Harvard for 48 years, almost all of it in our department. He then served as president of the Harvard University Retirees Association, came regularly to speak at CCB holiday functions, and was honored in 1998 by the establishment of the Warren R. Stockwood Prize to recognize the exceptional and sustained contributions of nonacademic CCB employees.

The development of soft lithography in the laboratory of Professor George Whitesides is cited as one of the top ten advances in materials science over the past 50 years in the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of Materials Today.

A festive book-signing event took place in the CCB library on November 14th for "Molecules and Medicine" by Professor E. J. Corey, Barbara Czakó, and László Kürti.The book has been favorably reviewed by the Crimson and C&E. In February 2008, "Molecules and Medicine" received the Association of American Publishers' 2007 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division Award for Excellence, in the Physical Sciences and Mathematics category.

Assistant Professor Ted Betley's research effort is one of eight nationwide just selected for funding by The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation under its Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry.

Congratulations to Paul Ahern and Shaw Huang for 25 years of service to CCB!

The ACS Division of Organic Chemistry announces that Stephan Zuend of the Jacobsen lab has been awarded a graduate fellowship on the basis of research accomplishments and his essay entitled "Small-Molecule-Catalyzed Stereoselective Functionalization of Nearly Unbiased Substrates." He will present his research at the 2009 National Organic Symposium. Congratulations, Stephan!