Department Highlights
Faculty Highlights
Congratulations to Prof. Clay Bennett on his NSF grant.
Congratulations to Prof. Joshua Kritzer on his CART grant for Alzheimer's research.
Congratulations to Prof. Rebecca Scheck on her promotion to the rank of full Professor.
Congratulations to Prof. Charlie Mace on his promotion to the rank of full Professor.
Congratulations to Prof. Luke Davis on his promotion to the rank of Associate Professor.
Congratulations to Prof. Diren Pamuk Turner on her promotion to full Teaching Professor.
Welcome to Prof. Jie Gao, who will be starting as an Associate Teaching Professor in Fall 2026.
Welcome to Dr. Jet Lem, who will be starting as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026.
Welcome to Prof. Neel Joshi, who will be starting as an Associate Professor in Summer 2026.
Congratulations to Prof. Sam Kounaves on presenting the 2025 IMPACT Lecture at the University of Notre Dame.
Congratulations to Prof. Xinqiang Ding on his NIH ESI MIRA grant.
Congratulations to Prof. Joshua Kritzer on his grant from NSF Biology.
Congratulations to Prof. Rebecca Scheck on her NSF MIRA Outstanding Investigator Award.
Congratulations to Prof. Ira Caspari on her NSF CAREER grant.
Congratulations to Profs. Ravi Bachu and Tim Brunker on their promotions to Associate Teaching Professors.
Congratulations to Prof. Yu-Shan Lin on her promotion to the rank of full Professor.
Welcome to Dr. Xinqiang Ding, who will be starting as an Assistant Professor in 2023.
Student Highlights
Dr. Nicolette Maggiore, from the Caspari Group, received the GSAS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education.
Bernadette Dineen, from the Kounaves Group, received the GSC Outstanding Graduate Contribution to Mentoring or Teaching Undergraduates Award.
Gabriel Park, a junior chemistry major, was awarded an ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Fellowship (SURF).
Haley Anchukaitis and Tristan Dinsmore, from the Kumar Group, won the Dr. Elizabeth A. Schram Award at the 29th American Peptide Society Conference.
Courtney Deslauriers, from the Thomas Group, was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Nigel Kidder-Wolff, from the Thomas Group, was awarded the Graduate Student Council Service Award.
Tiffani Hui, from the Lin Group, is a recipient of the GSAS Award for Outstanding Academic Scholarship.
Bernadette Dineen, from the Kounaves Lab, is a TedxTufts Speaker.
Nefeli Batistatou, from the Kritzer Lab, was awarded the GSAS Award for Outstanding Academic Scholarship.
Bernadette Dineen, from the Kounaves Group, was featured by the Museum of Science on International Women's Day.
Tristan Dinsmore, from the Kumar Group, was awarded the first place poster award at the Gordon Research Conference on Chemistry and Biology of Peptides.
Jing Wang, from the Kritzer Group, was awarded a poster prize at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Vanessa Jones, from the Bennett Group, won second place overall in the poster session at the annual University at Buffalo Graduate Student symposium.
Katie Maiello, from the Bennett Group, was recognized at the Spring ACS Conference for an outstanding poster presentation among graduates and postdocs in the CARB division.
Alumni Highlights
Steve Boxer, PhD, will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree at the 2025 Commencement Ceremony.
Fanny Frausto, PhD, was a featured expert in an ACS Webinar about the art of self-reinvention.
Felicia Lucci, PhD, was featured on the cover on The Nucleus NESACS. Felicia is giving a featured address on NESACS Education Night.
Todd Pagano, PhD, was featured in Chemistry World in April 2022 for helping make research environments more inclusive to deaf and hard of hearing students.
Congratulations to Jane Frommer, PhD, for receiving the prestigious 2020 Perkin Medal.