Department of Chemistry
Department News 2001

• Thursday, January 3, Joey-Lee Methot, Dissertation Defense. [12/21/2001]
  
  
• Visiting Committee Poster Session awardees named. [12/21/2001]
  
  
• Industry Week names Prof. David Pratt as a R&D Star to Watch. [12/14/2001]
  
  
• Tuesday, December 11, Arnold Tharrington, Dissertation Defense. [12/4/2001]
  
  
• Monday, November 26, Jian Bao, Dissertation Defense. [11/26/2001]
  
  
• Visiting Committee Poster Session, December 6, 2001 [11/15/2001]
  
  
• David Pratt to present at the 2001 Teaching Excellence Fair, on Friday, 11/16. [11/12/2001]
  
  
• PLU is accepting abstracts for the Winter Poster Session. [11/9/2001]
  
  
• Tuesday, November 20, Stephen Bell, Dissertation Defense. [11/9/2001]
  
  
• Tuesday, November 20, Jennifer Peters, Dissertation Defense. [11/9/2001]
  
  
• ACS-SA Fall Term Awards Ceremony [11/6/2001]
  
  
• Chem 1460: Intro to Computational Science [10/1/2001]
  
  
• Friday, September 28, Yoshikazu Uto, Dissertation Defense. [9/25/2001]
  
  
• Participate in the Electronic Theses and Dissertation pilot project [9/21/2001]
  
  
• Monday, October 22, Zhonghui Wan, Dissertation Defense. [9/18/2001]
  
  
• Job opening: Director, Environmental Health & Safety [9/12/2001]
  
  
• Prof. Jordan to present a "Classroom without a Quiz" session at Panther Weekend. [9/12/2001]
  
  
• FAS Grad Expo 2001 [9/12/2001]
  
  
• New Photonics Certificate! [9/4/2001]
  
  
• NSF-REU Symposium, Thursday August 9, 2001, 1-5 pm in CSC 132. All welcome. [8/1/2001]
  
  
• Prof. Borguet group's research is featured in Chemical and Engineering News. [8/1/2001]
  
  
• Thursday, August 9, Mary N. Boyden Dissertation Defense. [7/27/2001]
  
  
• Prof. Curran and Prof. Yates make the ISI's "Highly Cited Researchers" list. [7/13/2001]
  
  
• Former Pitt undergrad Tom Chih-Chuang Hu earns his Ph.D. from CMU. [7/11/2001]
  
  
• Pitt Housing Resource Center provides housing assistance for members of the univerisity community [7/11/2001]
  
  
• Prof. Rob Coalson will be teaching Physics 2274 - Computational Physics this fall. [7/11/2001]
  
  
• Prof. Curran and his group found Fluorous Technologies Inc. [7/11/2001]
  
  
• Wednesday, July 18, Janice A. Steckel Dissertation Defense. [6/25/2001]
  
  
• The Wilcox groups research is featured on the cover of the 18 May 2001 edition of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, English. [6/20/2001]
  
  
• Wednesday, June 27, Ana Gabarda, Dissertation Defense. [6/15/2001]
  
  
• Lab renovations have been completed for both Prof. Asher (Rm 708) and Prof. Brummond (Rm 514). [5/23/2001]
  
  
• Announcing a new seminar series: Frontiers In Science. [5/23/2001]
  
  
• Jordan group use TCSini system at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center for quantum mechanical simulations. [5/11/2001]
  
  
• The May 10, 2001 issue of Journal of Physical Chemistry B (Vol 105, Issue 18) is dedicated to Prof. John Yates, Jr. on the occasion of his 65th birthday. [5/5/2001]
  
  
• Tuesday, May 1st, 2001, Timothy M. Korter, Dissertation Defense. [5/3/2001]
  
  
• Prof. George Bandik receives teaching excellence award. [4/26/2001]
  
  
• Congratulations to the 2001 department scholarship & award receipients. [4/23/2001]
  
  
• Industrial Partners Visiting Lecture Series: Roberto Car will give a lecture on April 19, 2001. [4/19/2001]
  
  
• Four new faculty will be joining us over the next year. [4/9/2001]
  
  
• Industrial Partners Visiting Lecture Series: Wayne L Mattice will give a lecture on April 10, 2001. [4/9/2001]
  
  
• Prof. Kay Brummond scales to new heights by joining our department. [3/21/2001]
  
  
• "Interview Strategies - The view from behind the desk", a Careers in Chemistry seminar, March 20, 2001. [3/19/2001]
  
  
• Industrial Partners Visiting Lecture Series: Hans Fraaije will give a lecture on March 20, 2001 [3/19/2001]
  
  
• Prof. Dieter Seebach will present this years Philips lectures, March 26th and March 27th. [3/19/2001]
  
  
• Congratulations to the 2001 Mellon Fellowship Recipients. [3/14/2001]
  
  
• Curran group's work appears in Science. [3/9/2001]
  
  
• Students, faculty and staff can get internet connection under Pitt's partnership with Stargate. [3/8/2001]
  
  
• Prof. Leonard S. Kogut receives teaching award from Carnegie Science Center. [3/6/2001]
  
  
• Pitt Chemistry and Pharmacology collaboration is using CombiChem to seek chemotherapeutics for cancer. [2/27/2001]
  
  
• Prof. David Pratt is announced as a recipient of Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award. [2/19/2001]
  
  
• Industrial Partners Visiting Lecture Series: High Performance Computing for Prediction and Simulation of Material Properties. [2/19/2001]
  
  
• The law magazine "National Jurist" name Pittsburgh as the best city to live in for young lawyers. [2/14/2001]
  
  
• Office of Research is co-sponsoring a free Survival Skills and Ethics Workshop. [2/2/2001]
  
  
• A generous donation of $500,000 helps open new departmental facilities. [1/24/2001]
  
  
• New seminar mailing list launched. Never miss another seminar. [1/18/2001]
  
  
• Dr. Rob Bell (CMMS) is offering a course on parallel programing this term. For more information here [1/2/2001]