Jennifer Dabrowski Receives Eli Lilly Travel Award
Jennifer Dabrowski, a graduate student in Professor Amir Hoveyda’s group, has been named one of 12 national recipients of the Eli Lilly Travel Award. This highly competitive award, open to undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral chemists, is sponsored jointly by The Eli Lilly Company and the Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society. Recipients are chosen on the basis of scientific merit. Miss Dabrowski's presentation was titled “Enantioselective Synthesis of Alkyne-substituted Quaternary Carbon Stereogenic Centers through NHC-Cu-catalyzed Allylic Substitution Reactions with (i-Bu)2(alkynyl)aluminum Reagents.” Her poster showcased her work on “Cu(I)-Catalyzed Enantioselective Substitution of Allylic Phosphates with Alkynylaluminum Reagents.”
Professor Dunwei Wang Receives a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship
Professor Dunwei Wang has won a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship, one of four Boston College researchers this year to receive the prestigious award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. His work, which focuses on the science of clean energy conversion and storage, has included the development of new nanostructures. The Wang lab’s “Nanonets” show the potential for application in how future versions of lithium-ion batteries are designed. Wang, who last year received an NSF Career award, has been at Boston College since 2007, following a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. For more information: http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/offices/pubaf/news/2011_jun-aug/sloan_winners.html
