News Archive

Scott Miller and Gary Brudvig receive endowed professorships. Read the articles in the Yale Bulletin & Calendar: Scott Miller, Gary Brudvig

Seth Herzon has joined our organic chemistry group as Assistant Professor as of July 2008. Seth was a Postdoctoral Fellow with John Hartwig at the University of Illinois, having completed doctoral studies with Andrew Myers at Harvard. more

Don Crothers awarded the Yale's 2008 DeVane Award for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching. more

Don Crothers awarded the 2008 Emily A. Gray Award of the Biophysical Society! more

High resolution structure of first protein composed entirely of beta amino acids chosen as one of 2007's most important advances in Chemistry. See D.S. Daniels, E.J. Petersson, J.X. Qiu, & A. Schepartz, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 1532-1533. more
Click here to see the structure

Check out the pictures from Kenneth Wiberg's 80th birthday celebration!

The 2007 William A. Chupka Lecture was presented by Richard N. Zare. Click here to check out the pictures!

Congratulations to Prof. William Jorgensen, who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007!

Congratulations to Paul Anastas, elected AAAS Fellow for 2007!

We are pleased to announce that David Spiegel has won an NIH New Innovator Award. The award is for $1.5 million over 5 years and was granted to 30 people out of 2,200 applicants. Only 3 of the awardees, including David, are in chemistry departments! Follow the links for more info: Yale Daily News, NIH NIA Recipients

Congratulations to David Spiegel, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Awardee!

We are pleased to announce that a research team consisting of Gary Brudvig, Victor Batista, Robert Crabtree, Charles Schmuttenmaer and coworkers has been awarded an U.S. Department of Energy grant for Basic Solar Energy Research. The award is for $1.44 million for over 3 years. more

Congratulations to Glenn Micalizio, a Boehringer Ingelheim New Investigator Awardee!

Congratulations to Kurt Zilm, elected AAAS Fellow in 2006!

Congratulations to Mark Johnson for making the top ten discoveries list for 2004 in Science! Follow the links for more info:
Science Magazine
Cover Story for C&E News Chemistry Highlights 2005
C&E News Science & Technology Concentrates 2007