News

May 1, 2010
Congratulations to Professor Patrick Vaccaro on the occasion of his receiving the “The Dylan Hixon ‘88 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Natural Sciences for 2010.” The...
May 1, 2010
Congratulations to Alanna Schepartz who was just elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). Members of the AAAS represent innovative thinkers in...
April 1, 2010
Congratulations to Professor Elsa Yan on receiving a 2010 CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This award will support Professor Yan’s multidisciplinary...
April 1, 2010
Congratulations to Alanna Schepartz who was awarded a highly coveted National Academies Keck Futures Initiative grant for a project entitled “Separate but equal: Design of...
April 1, 2010
Congratulations to Seth Herzon who has been named a 2010 Searle Scholar. The Searle Scholar Award is given annually to 15 young scientists nationwide to support research in...
March 1, 2010
The Department of Chemistry is delighted to welcome Professor Jonathan Ellman as the newest member of its faculty, effective July 1st, 2010. Professor Ellman brings exciting...
March 1, 2010
The Ellman Laboratory will establish its programs both in the Department of Chemistry and at the Yale School of Medicine. Professor Ellman will also play a pioneering role in...
February 10, 2010
The Spiegel Research Group has recently made important strides in their work involving antibody-recruiting small molecules that target HIV and prostate cancer.  These...
February 1, 2010
Professor Seth Herzon and co-workers Christina Woo, Liang Lu, Shivajirao Gholap, and Devin Smith have completed the synthesis of the anticancer agent kinamycin F, as...
October 1, 2009
The Department is pleased to announce that Alanna Schepartz has been selected as the Alexander M. Cruickshank Lecturer at the Gordon Research Conference on Biopolymers to be...
October 1, 2009
Yale’s Thomas Steitz is one of three winners of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work describing the structure and function of the ribosome, the molecular...
October 1, 2009
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...
September 1, 2009
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,...