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The Department is pleased to announce that Alanna Schepartz, Milton Harris Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, is the very first recipient of the ACS Chemical Biology Prize Lectureship. This award, bestowed by the ACS Division of Biological Chemistry, is designed to honor the contributions of a single individual who has had a major impact on scientific research in the area of Chemical Biology. The inaugural award will be presented at the 239th ACS National Meeting held March 21–25, 2010, in San Francisco.  For more information, visit http://www.biochemdivision.org/awards. Congratulations, Alanna!

Professor Robert Crabtree has won the 2010 Kosolapoff Award of Auburn University.  The award is given in recognition of landmark contributions in
Chemistry and Biochemistry, and has illustrious history of previous recipients: Kosolapoff Award of Auburn University. The Chemistry Department extends warmest congratulations to Professor Crabtree on this occasion.

Congratulations to William Jorgensen and John Tully who have been selected as members of the first class of ACS Fellows. Click here to read the write up in C&EN

The Department of Chemistry is delighted to congratulate Dr. Francis Collins on his nomination to assume the leadership of the National Institutes of Health.  Dr. Collins received his Ph.D. in 1974 from the Chemistry Department at Yale, working with Professor R. James Cross. The title of Dr. Collins' dissertation was, "Semiclassical Theory of Vibrationally Inelastic Scattering, with Application to H++ H2."  The Department offers Dr. Collins all best wishes on this important occasion.

Congratulations to William L. Jorgensen who has been appointed as a Sterling Professor of Chemistry, one of the University's highest faculty honors. more

Congratulations to Mark Johnson who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The Department of Chemistry was pleased to host tryouts for this year’s national Chemistry Olympiad on April 25. more

We are pleased to welcome Nilay Hazari who will join our faculty as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2009. Having done his Ph.D. as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and postdoctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology, Professor Hazari will initiate a program of research in synthetic inorganic and organometallic chemistry.

Congratulations to David Spiegel's lab for receiving a Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This grant will fund work related to the development of new antibiotic strategies to minimize the development of bacterial resistance.

Ann Valentine has been awarded the Paul D. Saltman Memorial Award, given annually by the Gordon Research Conferences, in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of metals in biology. Click here to read the write-up in the Yale Bulletin.

Scott J. Miller has received the Yoshimasa Hirata Memorial Gold Medal from Nagoya University. In honor of Professor Yoshimasa Hirata, a towering figure in natural products chemistry, Professor Miller recently delivered the Hirata Memorial Lecture in Nagoya, Japan.

Congratulations to Paul Anastas, named by the Yale Corporation the inaugural Teresa and John H. Heinz III Chair for Chemistry for the Environment.

Peter Moore has been elected President-Elect of the Biophysical Society. He will assume this office at the 2009 Annual Meeting in Boston. His term as President will begin in 2010.

Alanna Schepartz has been awarded Harvard University's 2008-2009 Frank H. Westheimer Prize in recognition of her outstanding research in chemistry and chemical biology. more

Department of Chemistry Graduate School alumna, Laura Kiessling, Hilldale Professor of Chemistry and Laurens Anderson Professor of Biochemistry at The University of Wisconson-Madison, has been awarded the 2008 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal. more

Congratulations to Prof. Seth Herzon, who has been recognized with an Eli Lilly New Faculty Award. This honor is in recognition of Seth's exciting research programs in the area of synthetic organic chemistry.

The Department of Chemistry and the New Haven Section of the ACS has awarded the 2008 Kirkwood Medal to MIT Professor JoAnne Stubbe. The award is presented biennially for "outstanding contributions to the field of Chemistry," and honors the late Prof. John G. Kirkwood, former Sterling Professor of Chemistry and Chairman of the Department at Yale. View photos from the May 1, 2008 award ceremony.

Congratulations to Prof. David Spiegel, who has won this year's Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award for work on the chemistry of advanced glycation end-products.

Paul Anastas has received the Leadership in Science award from the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.

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