NEWS
- April 2012
Benjamin Hsiao named VP for Research at Stony Brook
March 2012
The URECA website regularly features students' perspectives on research and/or creative activities.
This month's featured student is Dara Bobb-Semple, a dual Chemistry/CME major in her junior year who has been engaged in research in the laboratory of Dr. Stanislaus Wong, Department of Chemistry, for the last year on the preparation of crystalline metallic ruthenium (Ru) nanowires using an ambient template based methodology.
February 2012
The Department of Chemistry expresses a big thank you to a prominent Long Island artist, Eileen Sanger, Prof. David Hanson, and Mrs. Colleen Hanson for their generous donation of the piece of art entitled "Chemistry Graffiti" for display in our Atrium Lobby.
- The Department of Chemistry is extremely happy to welcome our newest faculty member, Prof. Surita Bhatia from the University of Massachusetts who will start in May 2012. More info to follow.
The Chemistry Department has just received a signed $400,000 pledge from an anonymous donor to support the newly established Graduate Chemistry Endowment. The pledge is payable over 4 years and will be matched with $400,000 from the Simons Challenge Grant once the pledge is fulfilled.
This Fund will be used to provide graduate level support for fellowships, awards, research, travel, conferences and professional development. More will follow.
- January 2012
Four Stony Brook University professors — Ben Hsiao, Lorna Role, Peter Stephens and George Sterman — have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and will be honored for their contributions to science at the February 18, 2012, Fellows Forum during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Professor Iwao Ojima, Director of the Institute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery (ICB&DD) and a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Stony Brook University, recently announced a multi-year research collaboration with Sanofi, a multinational pharmaceutical company, on a potential treatment for Tuberculosis (TB) and other bacterial infections.
The 2012 Intel Science Talent Search Competition semifinalists were announced yesterday and we are proud to have 8 Semifinalists. Congratulations to these students and to their mentors.
WELCOME
Welcome to the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University. Our department offers unsurpassed opportunities for world-class research across a broad range of chemical fields. With over forty faculty, we have a reputation for excellence in teaching in addition to research. Our close relationship with Brookhaven National Lab and the Stony Brook Hospital reflects the strong interdisciplinary aspect of our department. As an indication of the recent growth and success of research within the department, we have moved from 46th in the nation in total R&D funding in 2006 to 9th in 2011, bypassing Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Johns Hopkins and other peer universities during this period.
