NEWS
- May 2013
Congratulations to Peter Giattini for receiving Goldwater Scholarship, a member of Nancy Goroff Research Group. - April 2013
Professor Clare Grey, FRS was awarded the 2013 Günther Laukien Medal at the 54th ENC conference in Asilomar, California. This award is for her innovative applications of solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to energy storage systems, in particular to lithium batteries. She has to a large extent created, by her own contributions, a flourishing new field of NMR with a great potential for future beneficial discoveries and applications.
SBU Professors Collaborate on NSF-Funded "Materials Genome Initiative" White House supported initiative to speed up transition time from lab to marketplace.
The Fowler Challenge: a donation of $25,000 to endow fellowships for Undergraduate Learning Assistants (ULAs) and with the Alumni challenge to match the gift.
Stony Brook Chemistry Department at the 245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition. April 7-11, 2013 | New Orleans, Louisiana
Chemistry Department Colloquium: Advancing Graduation Education in the Chemical Sciences
Stony Brook Chemistry Awarded $400,000 to Fund Graduate Education and Research and Professional Development
The Department of Chemistry is delighted to announce that Dr. Scott Laughlin, currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley with Professor John Ngai, and Dr. Ming-Yu Ngai, a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard University with Professor Tobias Ritter, will be joining the faculty on September 1, 2013. - March 2013
Prof. Clare Grey FRS was awarded the IBA2013 research award at the International Battery Association conference in Barcelona
Four Stony Brook Professors Receive NSF CAREER Awards Totaling Nearly $2 Million.
Professor Takeuchi Congratulated by Congressional Record.
The Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University Applauds our 2013 American Chemical Society Award Recipients
February 2013
Stony Brook University's Vice President for Research and past Chair Benjamin Hsiao is featured in an interview with Jim Paymar, host of Long Island Business Report, on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 7 PM. The program explores Stony Brook University and the Lab, focusing on the impact these world-class institutions are making in the fields of science, engineering, and technology, as well as the business opportunities stemming from the research. .
University Distinguished Lectures in Science and Engineering presents Nobel Prize Winner Robert H. Grubbs, Phd - "Catalysis: Green Chemicals and Materials. Friday February 15 at 4pm in the Charles Wang Center. This is free and open to the public. .
January 2013
AFOSR awards grants to 40 scientists and engineers through its Young Investigator Research Program. Congratulations to Professor Thomas Allison.
Congratulations to the 2013 Intel Semifinalists especially those mentored by Chemistry Professors Chu, Hsiao, Lacey, Ojima, Simmerling, and Tonge and the post docs, graduate and undergraduate students who helped them in their research!
December 2012
Congrats to Siemens Finalist Raghav Tripathi mentored by Profs Ojima, Deutsch, Rizzo & Kaczocha!
November 2012
Congratulations to Profs. Kenneth Takeuchi, Jin Wang, and Stanislaus Wong for being elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and they will be honored for their contributions to science and engineering at the Fellows Forum held during the AAAS Annual Meeting on February 16, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts.
October 2012
Stony Brook University Mentors 26 Semi/Regional Finalists in Siemens Competition University remains among nation's leaders in developing researchers of the future
University Distinguished Lectures in Science and Engineering presents Nobel Prize Winner Robert H. Grubbs, Phd - "Catalysis: Green Chemicals and Materials. Monday, October 29 at 3pm in the Student Activities Center, Ballroom B. This is free and open to the public.
The CHE 133 Faculty and Staff are pleased to be joined by Dr. Suman Grewal. -
September 2012
Esther Sans Takeuchi, 2013 recipient of the E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry from the American Chemical Society
Congratulations to Fernando O. Raineri for his project funding approval for the development of Online teaching of CHE 312.
August 2012
Millar, a chemistry professor at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, passed away untimely at age 64 from an apparent heart attack in February 2011. Her chemistry friends, students, classmates, and colleagues, including her husband, SUNY Stony Brook chemistry professor Stephen A. Koch, gathered here in Philadelphia at the ACS meeting to pay homage to her during a symposium in the Division of Inorganic Chemistry on metalloenzymes and their functions.
The Chemistry Department welcomes four new members to our Chemistry Community - Associate Professor Surita Bhatia, Distinguished Professor Esther Takeuchi, Distinguished Professor Kenneth Takeuchi, and Research Associate Professor Amy Marschilok.
Nicole Sampson, Professor and Chair, participates in American Chemical Society Press Conference on the importance of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH) for chemical research and training
The Chemistry Department welcomes four new members to our Chemistry Community - Associate Professor Surita Bhatia, Distinguished Professor Esther Takeuchi, Distinguished Professor Kenneth Takeuchi, and Research Associate Professor Amy Marschilok.
Two SBU Chemistry Professors to Receive Prestigious American Chemical Society Awards
Memorial Symposium for Michelle Millar at ACS 244th National Meeting and Exposition in Philadelphia (August 19 - 23, 2012) Division of Inorganic Chemistry
Physics and math shed new light on biology by mapping the landscape of evolution. A team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Jilin University in Jilin, China; and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, led by Prof. Jin Wang, has examined some of these puzzles from a physical science prospective.
The Chemistry Department extends a warm welcome to our new Chair, Dr. Nicole S. Sampson.
July 2012
Sustainability Studies and Chemistry faculty member Kate Aubrecht and Sustainability Studies faculty members Arlene Cassidy, Jim Hoffmann and Jim Quigley have been awarded a $195,524 grant from the National Science Foundation
May 2012
Ken A. Dill and Eugene Feinberg recognized with highest faculty designation
April 2012
Benjamin Hsiao named VP for Research at Stony Brook
March 2012
The URECA website regularly features students' perspectives on research and/or creative activities.
This month's featured student is Dara Bobb-Semple, a dual Chemistry/CME major in her junior year who has been engaged in research in the laboratory of Dr. Stanislaus Wong, Department of Chemistry, for the last year on the preparation of crystalline metallic ruthenium (Ru) nanowires using an ambient template based methodology.
February 2012
The Department of Chemistry expresses a big thank you to a prominent Long Island artist, Eileen Sanger, Prof. David Hanson, and Mrs. Colleen Hanson for their generous donation of the piece of art entitled "Chemistry Graffiti" for display in our Atrium Lobby.
The Chemistry Department has just received a signed $400,000 pledge from an anonymous donor to support the newly established Graduate Chemistry Endowment. The pledge is payable over 4 years and will be matched with $400,000 from the Simons Challenge Grant once the pledge is fulfilled.
This Fund will be used to provide graduate level support for fellowships, awards, research, travel, conferences and professional development. More will follow.
- January 2012
Four Stony Brook University professors — Ben Hsiao, Lorna Role, Peter Stephens and George Sterman — have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and will be honored for their contributions to science at the February 18, 2012, Fellows Forum during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Professor Iwao Ojima, Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery (ICB&DD) and a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, recently announced a multi-year research collaboration with Sanofi, a multinational pharmaceutical company, on a potential treatment for Tuberculosis (TB) and other bacterial infections.
The 2012 Intel Science Talent Search Competition semifinalists were announced yesterday and we are proud to have 8 Semifinalists. Congratulations to these students and to their mentors.
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Welcome to the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University. Our department offers unsurpassed opportunities for world-class research across a broad range of chemical fields. With over forty faculty, we have a reputation for excellence in teaching in addition to research. Our close relationship with Brookhaven National Lab and the Stony Brook Health Sciences Center reflects the strong interdisciplinary aspect of our department. As an indication of the recent growth and success of research within the department, we have moved from 46th in the nation in total R&D funding in 2006 to 27th in 2012.
