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Prof. Peter Wipf is the 2012 winner of the ACS Pittsburgh Section Award.
The Pittsburgh Award, which is presented annually, was established in 1932 to recognize outstanding leadership and distinguished service to the field of chemistry in the local and larger profession...
Read MoreA recently published article of Prof. Kay Brummond has been selected by the Editorial Board of SYNFACTS for its important insights.
Prof. Brummond's recent paper, A Thermal Dehydrogenative Diels-Alder Reaction of Styrenes for the Concise Synthesis of Functionalized Naphthalenes (...
Read MoreProf. Xinyu Liu received a career development award from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute.
Dr. Xinyu Liu, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and member of the cancer immunology program at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), was awarded a career development award from...
Read MoreChemistry building renovations win architecture awards.
2012 SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Architecture Award
The Chevron Chemistry Annex at the University of Pittsburgh was selected as an "Honor Award...
Read MoreCongratulations to the American Chemical Society (ACS) Student Chapter
The American Chemical Society (ACS) Student Chapter in the Chemistry Department at the University of Pittsburgh, Oakland Campus, has been selected to receive an Outstanding Chapter Award for its ac...
Read MoreNSF MRI Grant for $450K awarded to Department of Computational and Systems Biology (PI, Carlos Camacho) and Center for Simulation and Modeling (SaM) (Co-PI Lillian Chong).
Led by PI, Carlos Camacho, Department of Computational and Systems Biology and co-PI, Lillian Chong, Department of Chemistry, the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant represents a joint...
Read MoreDaniel Hatfield (undergrad, Chong group) was recognized at the ACS Meeting in Philadelphia for his poster presentation.
Six outstanding Physical Chemistry student poster presentations were selected for special recognition at the Fall 2012 ACS national meeting in Philadelphia among 150 posters. Daniel Hatfield, under...
Read MoreHorne Lab Research Highlighted in C&E News
Elucidating the role of the protein backbone in folding and how it can be engineered to impart new functions is a frontier challenge at the interface of organic chemistry and biology. Ongoing work...
Read MoreHeroes of Chemistry Award given to Srikanth Venkatraman (PhD 1996, Wipf).
Srikanth Venkatraman and his team at Merck & Co. are the recipients of the 2012 Heroes of Chemistry Award for developing the chronic hepatitis C drug Victrelis®. His...
Read MoreThe Liu (Xinyu) Lab receives awards from The American Society of Pharmacognosy.
The American Society of Pharmacognosy recently gave two awards to the Liu (Xinyu) Lab in recognition of their research efforts on natural products.
Professor Liu was given a trav...
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