Department of Chemistry
Department News 2000

• The Research Corporation grants Research Innovation Awards to both Prof. Chris Schafmeister and Prof. Paul Floreancig [11/29/2000]
  
  
• The Mellon Fellowship applications for 2001-2002 are available [11/27/2000]
  
  
• The Fall undergraduate award recipients this year are Ryan Priore, Cathy Faler, Joshua Sokoloski and Brian Bucher [11/21/2000]
  
  
• PLU are sponsoring a poster session on November 17 [11/13/2000]
  
  
• Thursday, November 17, 2000, Nicole J. Munro Thesis Defense. [11/8/2000]
  
  
• Wednesday, November 1, 2000, Camilla N. Rusu, Thesis Defense. [10/25/2000]
  
  
• Professor David Beratan will lead an informal discussion on the research of Professor Tom Moore before his Departmental Seminar on Thursday 26 October. [10/17/2000]
  
  
• The Year 2000 Chemistry Department Distinguished Alumni are announced by the Department [10/6/2000]
  
  
• Professor Robert Langer will present the 22nd Annual Bayer Lectures on October 4th and 5th. [10/3/2000]
  
  
• A Symposium on Nanoscale and Mesoscale Enabling Materials and Phenomenon will be held at Pitt on October 12th [10/2/2000]
  
  
• Monday, October 9, 2000, C. Emil Tripa, Thesis Defense. [9/29/2000]
  
  
• Professor Eric Borguet will lead an informal discussion on the research of Professor Phillipe Guyot-Sionnest before his Departmental Seminar on Thursday 28 September. [9/25/2000]
  
  
• Thursday, September 21, 2000, Alfredo Cardenas, Thesis Defense. [9/18/2000]
  
  
• Prof. Chris Schafmeister Receives a New Faculty Award for 2000 [9/18/2000]
  
  
• Putting names to faces….Photo album of the current 1st year graduate student class is now online. [9/11/2000]
  
  
• Professor David Pratt will lead an informal discussion on the research of Professor Mark Johnson before his Departmental Seminar on Thursday 14th September. [9/11/2000]
  
  
• Professor Ken Jordan has been named as the recipient of the Pittsburgh Award for 2000 [9/10/2000]
  
  
• Congratulations to this years Safford Award recipients for excellence as a graduate student teacher. [8/17/2000]
  
  
• Careers in Chemistry Symposium [8/16/2000]
  
  
• Welcoming picnic for the new graduate students, Friday, 18^th August, at 12 Noon. [8/16/2000]
  
  
• Friday, August 25, Vyacheslav N. Fishman Thesis Defense [8/15/2000]
  
  
• Symposium to Honor John T. Yates, Jr., R.K. Mellon Professor of Chemistry [8/12/2000]
  
  
• Graduate Program Administrator announces interviews. [8/10/2000]
  
  
• Thursday, August 17, Huijun Tian Thesis Defense [8/7/2000]
  
  
• Thursday, August 10, Alfredo Cardenas Thesis Defense [8/7/2000]
  
  
• NSF Awards $45 Million to Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center for "Terascale" Computing. The Post-Gazette calls the PSC, "The world's fastest computer outside of a nuclear weapons lab." [8/4/2000]
  
  
• Friday, August 11, Jolene Decker Thesis Defense. [8/2/2000]
  
  
• Health Reference Center provides full-text access to medical reference books, and nursing and allied health journals, as well as consumer health magazines, pamphlets, fact sheets and other materials. [7/19/2000]
  
  
• Wednesday, July 19, Mary Boyden Proposal Seminar [7/15/2000]
  
  
• Tuesday, July 18, Giovanna Gualtieri Thesis Defense [7/14/2000]
  
  
• Tuesday, July 18, Hiujun Tian Proposal Seminar [7/14/2000]
  
  
• Friday July 14 at 5pm on the 5^th floor patio a Bastille Day Celebration will be co-sponsored by PLU and the Chemistry Dept. All staff, students, and faculty are welcome - costumes are encouraged! [7/12/2000]
  
  
• Albany Molecular Research, Inc. today announced new investment. [7/6/2000]
  
  
• The University now has access to Springer-Verlag's Springer Link (i.e., full-text access to Springer's entire title list of ca. 340 serials). [6/28/2000]
  
  
• Dr. Matti Maricq, Staff Technical Specialist, Ford Motor Company, will be interacting with the department July 10-11, via both the seminar and the Careers in Chemistry programs [6/26/2000]
  
  
• Blackwell Science and Munksgaard Publications Available Online [6/16/2000]
  
  
• The Departmental Computer Committee recommends using multiple nameservers for a constant internet connect. [6/12/2000]
  
  
• June 7-10 the 7^th Boron USA (BUSA) Conference will be hosted by this chemistry department. [6/6/2000]
  
  
• Tuesday, June 6, Brian Haney Thesis Defense [6/4/2000]
  
  
• The Chemistry in Careers Committee in conjunction with CMU is presenting Dr. Peter Feibelman of Sandia National Laboratories for a series of seminars on 1-2 June, 2000. [5/31/2000]
  
  
• Prof. Ken Jordan and post-doctoral fellow Dr. Lindsey Munro are presently using Alliance's NT Supercluster to calculate the global minimum for clusters containing Ar and Xe. [5/25/2000]
  
  
• Chemistry Sophomore Receives Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. [5/14/2000]
  
  
• A warning is being circulated concerning a dangerous email virus called "The Love Bug Virus" [5/8/2000]
  
  
• Are you thinking about graduate studies in Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh? Professor Michael, Chair of the Graduate Recruiting Committee, has created a short (2.6 minute/460KB) audio message for you. [4/25/2000]
  
  
• Friday, April 28, Sun-young Kim Thesis Defense [4/21/2000]
  
  
• We are pleased to announce that Dr. Eugene Wagner has joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department, starting in the fall of this year. [4/17/2000]
  
  
• The Annual Francis Clifford Phillips Lecture Series will be held on the 5th and 6th April 2000. This years invited speaker is Professor Edward Yeung. [4/1/2000]
  
  
• Monday, March 13, Wiedong Liu Thesis Defense [3/20/2000]
  
  
• Monday, April 3, Jaemoon Yang Thesis Defense [3/20/2000]
  
  
• We are pleased to announce that Dr. Christian Schafmeister has joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department. Dr. Schafmeister is expected to arrive on July 1st 2000. [3/20/2000]
  
  
• The March 2000 issue of the ULS Digital Library News is now available online [3/18/2000]
  
  
• Congratulations to Stephen Bell, Wu Du, and Jon Reeves, the three 2000 Mellon Fellowship Recipients from Chemistry. [3/13/2000]
  
  
• We are pleased to announce that Dr. Kazunori Koide has joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department. Dr. Koide is expected at the beginning if July. [3/6/2000]
  
  
• Professor Rob Coalson will lead an informal discussion on the research of Professor Jeff Krause before his Departmental Seminar on Thursday 16^th March. [3/5/2000]
  
  
• A design by Professor Peter Wipf presently adorns the most recent issue of the Journal of Organic Chemistry. [2/29/2000]
  
  
• Monday, March 6, Ulrich Iserloh Thesis Defense [2/28/2000]
  
  
• The 1999 PLU service project turned out to be a great success for the New Beginnings Learning Center in North Oakland. [2/23/2000]
  
  
• New Departmental AFM is here! [2/15/2000]
  
  
• Professor John Yates has been awarded Linnett Visiting Professorship for the year 2000, the highest honour given to a foreign scientist by the Dept. of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. [2/7/2000]
  
  
• Carrie Brennan, a graduate student in Prof. Stephen Weber's research group, has been awarded a travel grant by the ACS Women Chemists Committee. [2/4/2000]
  
  
• Monday, February 14, Zhiyong Luo Thesis Defense [2/2/2000]
  
  
• "Crunching Data With Clusters", Ken Jordan, director of Pitt's Laboratory for Molecular and Materials Simulations is featured in the 10 January 2000 (Pg. 27) C & E News article. [2/1/2000]
  
  
• The "Announcement and Final Call for Papers" for the 32nd ACS Central Regional Meeting (CMACS 2000) will soon be mailed to all ACS members in the Central Region. [1/3/2000]