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Congratulations to Professor Moungi Bawendi, who has been awarded the #NobelPrize In Chemistry!
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
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Welcome to the MIT Department of Chemistry, Professor Robert J. Gilliard, Jr.! We are so excited to announce that @RJGilliard will join our faculty as the Novartis Associate Professor starting next year. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Oleta Johnson will be joining our faculty as an Assistant Professor this summer! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We are thrilled to welcome Professor Danna Freedman (@danna_freedman) to our faculty beginning this summer! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We are so excited to welcome our newest Assistant Professor, Dr. Masha Elkin, to the Department of Chemistry Faculty this July! Dr. Elkin joins us from the @HartwigGroup at @UCBerkeley. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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The Department of Chemistry has recently approved the promotions of Professors Mircea Dincă, Jeremiah Johnson, and Gabriela Schlau-Cohen. All promotions are effective July 1, 2020. Congratulations @DincaGroupMIT @johnsonchem @gabriela_ssc! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professors Alex Radosevich, Alex Shalek, Yogesh Surendranath, and Adam Willard, who have each been promoted to Full Professor, effective July 1, 2023! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor @AlisonWendlandt, who has been promoted to Associate Professor without Tenure, effective July 1, 2023! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Gabriela Schlau-Cohen (@gabriela_ssc), who has earned Tenure, effective this July! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Xiao Wang (@WangXiaoLab), the Cabot Assistant Professor of Chemistry and a Core Member of @broadinstitute , who has been promoted to Associate Professor With Tenure, effective July 1, 2024. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We are thrilled to welcome Professor Heather J. Kulik (and the @KulikGroup) to the Department of Chemistry as a jointly appointed faculty member with @MITChemE! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Xiao Wang (@WangXiaoLab), who has been named a 2022 Packard Fellow by the @PackardFdn! #PackardFellows chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Alex Radosevich and Professor Alex Shalek (@shaleklab), who have each earned Tenure effective July 1, 2021! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Xiao Wang (@WangXiaoLab), who has been promoted to Associate Professor Without Tenure, effective July 1, 2024! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Laura Kiessling (@ChemicalBiology), who is one of 100 new members elected to @theNAMedicine. Election to the National Academy of Medicine is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. #NAMmtg chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We are pleased to welcome Professor Robert J. Gilliard (@RJGilliard) of @UVA to the MIT Department of Chemistry as a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Danna Freedman (@danna_freedman), who has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow! Research in the @freedman_lab focuses on using inorganic chemistry to create new molecules for quantum information science. #MacFellow chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Laura L. Kiessling, who has been named a winner of the 2019 Centenary Prize by the @RoySocChem. @KiesslingGroup chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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A research team from @MIT, @Harvard, and @Cornell has unlocked a step towards development of Lithium-air batteries, with the energy density to rival gasoline. Read more about the new paper by Matt Nava with @ccclabmit and @HarvardCCB: chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Steve Buchwald (@BuchwildGroup), who has been named the recipient of this year's Award for Creativity in Molecular Design Synthesis by @AcsJersey! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We're hiring! The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Chemistry invites applications for tenure-track positions at the Assistant Professor level beginning July 2021 or thereafter. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We're hiring! The Department of Chemistry invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level beginning July 2024 or thereafter. To receive full consideration, completed applications must be received by November 15, 2023. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor @danna_freedman, who has been named a 2022 Blavatnik National Award Finalist! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations Professor Stephen Buchwald (@BuchwildGroup) for being named the inaugural winner of the Akira Suzuki Award by @ICReDDconnect! Read more here: chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry Stephen L. Buchwald (@BuchwildGroup) will receive the 2022 Paul Karrer Gold Medal this June at @UZH_Chemistry. Congratulations! Read more: chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We are honored to have been named the #1 Chemistry PhD Program for 2023-2024 by @usnews! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Dan Suess, Professor Alison Wendlandt, and Professor Bin Zhang, who have all earned tenure effective July 1, 2024! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Novartis Professor Laura L. Kiessling (@ChemicalBiology) on winning the Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry from @AmerChemSociety! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Chemistry Senior Abby Scott, who is this year's winner of the prestigious Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA) Award, presented to an outstanding woman who has demonstrated the highest level of academic excellence. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We are so excited to welcome Professor Yuriy Román (@yuriy_roman) to the Department of Chemistry as a jointly appointed faculty member with @MITChemE! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professors Laura Kiessling and Liz Nolan, who have each been awarded one of @MIT's most respected honors: the Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grant, which supports work that is unorthodox, and potentially world-changing. @KiesslingGroup chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Gabriela Schlau-Cohen (@gabriela_ssc), who has been promoted to Full Professor effective July 1, 2024! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Two winners of the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry share MIT roots. K. Barry Sharpless is a former member of the chemistry faculty, and @CarolynBertozzi is the daughter of Physics Professor Emeritus William Bertozzi and a Lemelson-MIT Prize winner. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Catherine Drennan (@Drennan_Lab), who was recently elected to the @theNASciences in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Announcing our inaugural Future Faculty in Chemistry Symposium aimed at postdoctoral fellows who have demonstrated contributions to enhancing #DEI in #STEM! Info and application for the May 17-18 virtual Symposium here: chemistry.mit.edu/about/the-…
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Congratulations to Professors Danna Freedman (@danna_freedman), Jeremiah Johnson (@johnsonchem), and Yogesh Surendranath (@yogi_chem), who were each named 2023 @BlavatnikAwards Finalists! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Vignesh Palani, a postdoctoral researcher in the @LabWendlandt, who has been recognized with an Infinite Expansion Award from @ScienceMIT! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professors Xiao Wang (@XiaoWan38018817) and Alison Wendlandt (@AlisonWendlandt), who have each received New Innovator Awards from @NIH. These awards recognize “unusually innovative research from early career investigators.” chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We are firmly against discrimination and inequity of all kinds, and, while we acknowledge there is much work to be done, we believe that diversity is a strength of Chemistry and not a weakness. 2/2
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Congratulations to Henry Dreyfus Professor Kit Cummins (@ccclabmit) on winning the Frederick Hawthorne Award in Main Group Inorganic Chemistry from @AmerChemSociety! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Gabriela Schlau-Cohen (@gabriela_ssc), who has been named the winner of the 2022 Award in Pure Chemistry by @AmerChemSociety! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We're hiring! The MIT Department of Chemistry seeks Assistant Professor Candidates. To receive full consideration, completed applications must be received by October 1, 2021. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Today, June 23, MIT Chemistry will be holding #ShutDownSTEM 2021. No non-essential department business will be conducted as we convene to reflect on the history of anti-blackness in academia, discuss our intersectional identities, and learn to create a black-inclusive lab space.
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Congratulations to Professor Mircea Dincă (@DincaGroupMIT), who has been named the winner of a 2023 Brown Investigator Award from the Brown Science Foundation, a @SciPhilOrg member. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Robert J. Gilliard (@RJGilliard), who has been named a recipient of the inaugural Robert Holland Jr. Award from @RCSA1! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
6 senior scientists will receive RCSA’s 1st Robert Holland Jr. Awards! Congrats to Raychelle Burks @AmericanU; Luis Colón @UBChemistry; Robert Gilliard @ChemistryMIT; Ted Goodson @MichiganChem; Malika Jeffries-El @BU_CAS; and Jane Liu @pomonacollege. bit.ly/3YyOE8k
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Bart Bartlett (@bartmartbart) (PhD '05) is a Chemistry Professor @UMich where his research group designs and synthesizes inorganic materials to probe electrocatalytic reaction mechanisms. #BlackInChem #BlackChemistsWeek
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“Welcoming the world’s brightest, most talented and motivated students is an essential American strength.” - President L. Rafael Reif
MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations mitsha.re/Dq5650AsTVC
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Researchers from @WangXiaoLab have developed next-gen mRNA therapeutics with higher stability and efficiency through ligation. Paper published today in ACS Chemical Biology. Congratulations! Read more here: chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Tim Swager (@SwagerGroup), who has been selected as a 2020 @AcadofInventors Fellow! Election to National Academy of Inventors Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Emeritus JoAnne Stubbe, who has been honored with the 2020 Priestley Medal!
MIT biochemist JoAnne Stubbe to receive the 2020 Priestley Medal. ow.ly/krAm50uI1pQ
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Congratulations to Professor Alex Radosevich, who has been awarded one of seven @mitenergy Seed Fund Grants for his work, “New low-cost, high energy-density boron-based redox electrolytes for nonaqueous flow batteries”. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Dan Suess, who has been named the winner of the 2024 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship by @InorgChem! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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"A fierce support for her advisees, Professor Catherine Drennan (@Drennan_Lab) creates space for vulnerability." For this and many other reasons, Professor Drennan has been honored as "Committed to Caring" by @MITGradStudents. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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MIT and the Department of Chemistry have both received No. 1 Rankings from @worlduniranking! This is the 11th consecutive year that MIT has received this distinction. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Join us in cheering on senior Chemistry and @MITBiology student Aniket Dehadrai for the quarterfinal game of @Jeopardy National College Championship tomorrow, Wed 2/16 at 8 p.m. EST! Read more about Aniket here: chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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54 graduates from the Chemistry Department received their advanced degrees and doctoral hoods yesterday! Congratulations to our newly minted PhDs and SMs! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Yogesh Surendranath (@yogi_chem) and Professor Adam P. Willard (@WillardLab), who have been granted Tenure effective July 1, 2020! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Join our Faculty! We are seeking applicants for Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor Positions now through October 1. Outstanding candidates with research interests in all areas of chemistry are encouraged to apply. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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A team of chemists including @johnsonchem has discovered a counterintuitive way to make polymers stronger: introduce a few weaker bonds into the material. news.mit.edu/2023/weaker-bon…
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The Department of Chemistry recently hosted the 2nd Annual Future Faculty Symposium, which showcased the research of exceptional early-career scientists who have demonstrated contributions to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Dan Suess, who has been named one of 18 winners of this year's Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award! @dreyfusfndn chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Visiting Professor Robert Gilliard (@RJGilliard), who has received a 2021 Packard Fellowship from the @PackardFdn in recognition of his world-changing research. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to our 2021 MLK Visiting Professor, Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. (@rjgilliard), on winning the 2023 Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry from the @AmerChemSociety! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to @Drennan_Lab, one of twelve faculty awardees of this year's Committed to Caring Award, which recognizes faculty mentors who devote true attention to students’ well-being. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Ron Raines (@rtraines), who has been awarded the 2022 Khorana Prize from @RoySocChem in honor of his work translating fundamental chemical understanding of collagen into the life sciences and towards the clinic. #RSCPrizes chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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With the help of MIT Facilities and @MITEHS, the Department of Chemistry is now able to safely put 58 of the fume hoods in our Undergraduate Teaching Lab into "hibernation mode" when they're not in use, drastically reducing energy costs. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Inspired by photosynthesis, MIT researchers, led by @gabriela_sscc have designed a new type of catalyst that can harness energy from light to fuel a variety of chemical reactions. Read more on this breakthrough here: chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to our #MIT2017 PhD students, who will be invested with their Doctoral hoods this morning!
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Congratulations to Xiao Wang (@WangXiaoLab), the Cabot Assistant Professor of Chemistry and a Core Member of @broadinstitute, who has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure, effective July 1, 2024. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Steve Buchwald (@BuchwildGroup), who has been named the recipient of the prestigious MIT Departmental Advising Excellence Award in recognition of his dedication to supporting students and his exceptional skills in advising. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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A new tool from the Imperilai Lab uses directed evolution to generate Glycan-binding proteins (GBPs) from small, hyper-thermostable DNA-binding protein. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Yogesh Surendranath (@yogi_chem), who has won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the @WhiteHouse announced recently. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Fifteen labs from the Department of Chemistry donated their unused PPE to local hospitals. Donations included upwards of 550 boxes of gloves. Many thanks to all who participated, and a sincere THANK YOU to all of our healthcare workers on the front lines. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Dan Suess, who was recently honored with the Student Champion Award from the MIT Office of the First Year in recognition of his dedication to advising first-year students. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We are excited to welcome C. Brandon Ogbunu (@big_data_kane), an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, to the department as an MLK Visiting Professor this fall! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Attention all Prospective PhD Students: Save the Dates and register today to attend our Virtual Open House on Wednesday, October 23 and Friday, October 25! For more information, including the schedule of events and how to register for them, visit: chemistry.mit.edu/academic-p…
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F.G. Keyes Professor Danna Freedman (@Danna_Freedman) designs qubits for quantum computation. “I love the most recent result, the thing I am struggling to understand and improve at a particular moment in time,” she says. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Attention all Postdoctoral Researchers with contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion! The 2023 Future Faculty Symposium will be held on August 22-23, and applications are open now through June 23. More information can be found at: chemistry.mit.edu/about/the-…
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Professor Gabriela Schlau-Cohen (@gabriela_ssc) uses ultrafast spectroscopy to capture dynamic processes such as the transfer of energy between photosynthetic proteins and pigments. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Elizabeth M. Nolan and Professor Alex K. Shalek, who have each received promotions effective July 1, 2019! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We are thrilled to welcome @RJGilliard to the Department of Chemistry!
MIT welcomes nine MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2021-22: Record number of honorees will engage in the life of the Institute through teaching, research, and other interactions with the MIT community. mitsha.re/UQgC50G7IZV
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Congratulations to Mircea Dincă, W. M. Keck Professor of Energy @DincaGroupMIT, one of 5 MIT faculty elected as 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (@aaas)! Read more on all five here: chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to our newly tenured faculty members, @yogi_chem and @WillardLab! @surendranathlab chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor Ron Raines (@rtraines), who has recently been elected to @americanacad! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Professor Laura Kiessling is developing vaccines that interact with cell surface carbohydrates, and exploring ways to disrupt microbes’ ability to assemble the carbohydrates they need to build their cell walls.@KiesslingGroup chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Lindsey Backman (@lbackman21) of the @Drennan_Lab, who has been named the winner of this year's Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship! This prestigious fellowship recognizes an individual's broad focus, leadership, and initiative. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor @gabriela_ssc, who has been selected by the @ProteinSociety as the winner of the 2024 Protein Science Young Investigator Award! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Check out the latest from the Movassaghi Group, Total Synthesis of (−)-Voacinol and (−)-Voacandimine C, recently published in @J_A_C_S. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Professor @gabriela_ssc, who has been been named a recipient of the 2021 Marion Milligan Mason Award by @aaas. This biennial prize is given in support of the advancement of women in the chemical sciences. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Novartis Associate Professor Robert Gilliard (@RJGilliard) embraces an expansive style of research, mixing different approaches and drawing from a variety of areas of expertise, including organic and inorganic chemistry. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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After four years as head of the Department of Chemistry, Professor Timothy F. Jamison (@Jamison_Group) has been named to a newly created associate provost position that will foster diversity, inclusion, equity, and positive climate. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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We are thrilled to announce that @AlisonWendlandt will be joining our faculty! Research in the Wendlandt Group will focus on the development of selective, catalytic transformations and the elucidation of their mechanisms. goo.gl/37XGjp
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Congratulations to Professor Alex Shalek, who has been named the winner of this year's @MIT Edgerton Faculty Award in recognition of his leadership and pioneering spirit. @shaleklab @ScienceMIT chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Researchers in the Suess Lab have determined the structure of the complex that forms when gaseous dinitrogen, or N2, binds to an iron-sulfur cluster, offering clues as to how microbes use nitrogenases to break the nitrogen-nitrogen bond. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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For the first time, chemists have measured the energy transfer between photosynthetic light-harvesting proteins, allowing them to discover that the disorganized arrangement of light-harvesting proteins boosts the efficiency of the energy transduction. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Congratulations to Sachin Bhagchandani, a member of Professor Jeremiah Johnson's group (@johnsonchem), who has been honored as an outstanding graduate student with high potential and interest in becoming an independent cancer researcher. via @KochInstitute lnkd.in/eiTVDfkv
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Don't miss the latest research from the Suess Lab, "Facile and dynamic cleavage of every iron–sulfide bond in cuboidal iron–sulfur clusters", recently published in @PNASNews. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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The Department of Chemistry is pleased to welcome 50 first-year graduate students! chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Justin Andrews, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Mircea Dincă’s lab (@DincaGroupMIT), has been named a 2023 CAS Future Leader. The CAS Future Leaders program supports the growth of science leadership potential among early-career scientists. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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Inspired in part by the movie #JurassicPark, researchers from @johnsonchem have developed a glassy, amber-like polymer that can be used for long-term storage of DNA, whether entire human genomes or digital files such as photos. chemistry.mit.edu/chemistry-…
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