Paint the Big Picture
In a recent article entitled “Managing Your Academic Career,” Chemical and Engineering News cites how Professor Amir Hoveyda provides valuable motivation to his graduate students by helping them see how their individual projects fit into the lab's overall thrust, particularly during grant writing. To read more please go to: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/employment/85/8506employment.html
Making Metathesis Work
In its recent cover story "Making Metathesis Work", Chemical and Engineering News reports on the use of Professor Amir Hoveyda's olefin metathesis catalysts in industry. To read more, please go to: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/85/8507cover2.html
Professors Mohanty and Roberts selected as Fellows of the AAAS
Professor Udayan Mohanty of the BCC Physical Chemistry division and Professor Mary F. Roberts of the Chemical Biology division have been chosen to be fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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Professor Lawrence Scott appointed to Louise and Jim Vanderslice and Family Chair in Chemistry
Professor Lawrence T. Scott, a member of the BCC Organic Chemistry division since 1993, and a leader in developing chemical methods to synthesize “Buckyballs,” has been selected as the inaugural holder of the Louise and Jim Vanderslice and Family Chair in Chemistry.more>>
Professors Hoveyda and Snapper Identify Important Chemical Catalyst
Professors Hoveyda and Snapper, along with graduate students Jason Rodrigo and Yu Zhao, have discovered a new substance that makes it possible for scientists to produce scores of pharmaceuticals and other chemicals in a faster, less expensive way. Click here for an article about this discovery published in the Boston College Chronicle.
