News Items
March 2024
- Welcome to our new first years: Eleanor, Sanjay, and Hailey!
- Congratulations to Professor Snyder for receiving the '23 ‐ '24 Marian and Sturat Rice Research Award!
- Tune into The Course as Professor Snyder discusses his journey through academia in a recent podcast!
- Congratulations to Sohee for receiving the Silver Prize in 30th Samsung HumanTech Paper Award in the Basic Sciences Division (Samsung SAIT).
- Congratulations to Elizabeth for successfully defending her thesis! We wish her well at McKinsey & Company.
- Congratulations to Alex for receiving the Benjamin Ball Freud Scholarship.
- Congratulations to Sohee for receiving the Otto H. & Valerie Windt Memorial Fellowship.
- Congratulations to Cheng for successfully defending his thesis! We wish him well at Bristol-Myers Squibb.
- Congratulations to Seth for receiving the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Welcome to our new first year: Maria!
- Welcome to our new first year: Minjun!
- Congratulations to Phil for successfully defending his thesis! We wish him well as a post-doctoral fellow in the Narayan group at University of Michigan.
- Congratulations to Justin for being selected as a CBI Training Fellow!
- We wish Dr. Dipendu Das well at Incyte.
- We wish Dr. Farbod Salahi well at Eli Lilly.
- Congratulations to Pei for successfully defending his thesis! We wish him well at WuXi AppTech.
- Congratulations to Heng for successfully defending his thesis! We wish him well at WuXi AppTech.
- Congratulations to Jonathan for successfully defending his thesis! We wish him well at FMC Corporations.
- Welcome to our new first years: Julia, Justin, and Seth!
- Congratulations to Cooper for successfully defending his thesis! We wish him well at Incyte.
- Congratulations to Tessa for successfully defending her thesis! We wish her well at GSK.
- Congratulations to Olivia for her ACS DOC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF).
- Congratulations to Samantha for starting her new position at Abbvie.
- Congratulations to Fangjie for successfully defending his thesis! We wish him well at Novartis in China.
- Congratulations to Charles for successfully defending his thesis! We wish him well at Incyte.
- Congratulations to Vlad for successfully defending his thesis! We wish him well as a process chemist at BMS.
- Welcome to our new first years: Alex, Bryan and Sohee!
- Congratulations to Piyush for successfully defending his thesis! We wish him well at Syngene International.
- Congratulations to Russell for being selected as a CBI Training Fellow!
- Congratulations to Tessa for being one of the ten winners of the Women Chemists Committee/Eli Lilly Travel Award!
- Congratulations to Phil for receiving the Gerhard Closs Teaching Award in Organic Chemistry.
- Congratulations to Pei for recieving the Everett E. Gilbert Memorial Prize for the Best Third Year Experimentalist in Organic Chemistry.
- Congratulations to Zhiyao for successfully defending his thesis! We wish him well as a post-doctoral fellow in the Coates group at Cornell.
- Congratulations to Yuan, who successfully defended his thesis and is now a post-doctoral fellow in the Wendlandt group at MIT!
- Welcome to our new first year student, Russell!
- Welcome to Andrew, our new visiting student from the Univeristy of Edinburgh!
- Minxing succesfully defended his thesis and is currently working at Cytokinetics Inc.
- Pengfei succesfully defended his thesis and is now a postdoctoral fellow in the Baran group.
- Good luck to Professor Hyung Min Chi who is starting his independent career at POSTECH in South Korea.
- Congratulations to Jeremy who started a new position at Polyneuron Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland.
- Congratulations to Will for receiving the Gerhard Closs Teaching Award in Organic Chemistry.
- Congratulations to Vlad for recieving the Everett E. Gilbert Memorial Prize for the Best Third Year Experimentalist in Organic Chemistry.
- Congratulations to Charles for receiving the George Van Dyke Tiers Fellowship for Small Molecule Research.
- Congratulations to Pengfei for receiving the Elizabeth R. Norton Prize for Excellence in Research in Chemistry.
- Congratulations to Elizabeth on winning an NSF Predoctoral Fellowship and to Cooper for receiving a second year of funding in the form of a graduate fellowship from our NIH Training Grant in Chemical Biology! Cooper also received an Honorable Mention in the NSF Predoctoral Fellowship Competition.
- Congratulations to Professor Ming Yang who has begun his independent career at Lanzhou University
- Welcome to our first years, Cheng, Evgeny, and Will!
- Congratulations to all of our second years for passing candidacy!
- Congratulations to Tessa for for winning an honorable mention prize for her poster at the Chicago Organic Symposium
- Congratulations to Scott for becoming the Associate Chair of the Department of Chemistry.
- Congratulations to Minxing for being named an Abbvie Scholar
- Congratulations to Pengfei for being named a Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellow
- Congratulations to Charles for receiving the inaugural Brown Fellowship from the Department of Chemistry
- Congratulations to Pengfei on receiving a William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship and The Morris Selig Kharasch Lecture Graduate Fellowship!
- Congratulations to Charles on receiving the prestigious Physcial Science Teaching Prize!
- Congratulations to Cooper on receiving the NIH Predoctoral Training Grant!
- Welcome to our new post-doc Jérémy Boilevin
- Welcome to our new first years: Philipp Gemmel, Elizabeth Kelley, Pei Qu and Cooper Taylor
- Congratulations to all of our second years for passing candidacy!
- Congratulations to Alison Gao and Pei Gan for graduating and starting their new jobs in industry.
- Congratulations to Prof. Snyder for receiving a Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and Charles Cole for receiving the Gerhard Closs Teaching Award in Organic Chemistry.
- Congratulations to Alison Gao for receiving a Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.
- Congratulations to Ian Hsu and Katherine Taylor for being named as Metcalf Fellows in support of their summer research
- Our enantioselective total synthesis of exochomine has been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie. Congratulations to Alison Gao and Tomoaki Hamada.
- Our newest group member, Meredith June Snyder, was born on June 23rd
- Congratulations to Jonathan Keim for receiving the Gerhard Closs Teaching Award in Organic Chemistry and to Zhiyao Zhou for receiving the Edith Barnard Memorial Fellowship in Chemistry.