Department of Chemistry

Chemistry Department News

• Alvin L. Crumbliss, Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the Natural Sciences, has been appointed as the new Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Chemistry and as a member of the Bass Society of Fellows, effective July 1, 2008. Congratulations to Prof. Crumbliss on this well-deserved recognition.
• Prof. Jie Liu's laboratory has reported a new method for fabricating dense arrays of oriented, single-walled carbon nanotubes. The ability to make large numbers of identical nanotubes would allow future nanoengineers to bundle them onto multiple ultra-tiny chips that could operate with enough power and speed for nanoprocessing. With their research, the Liu lab has removed a major roadblock in the path to ultrasmall devices.
• John Simon, George B. Geller Professor and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, will recive the 2008 Photon Award from the American Society for Photobiology at their national meeting in June. The ASP Photon Award was established to honor members who have made exceptional contributions and who have served the ASP above and beyond the call of duty.
• We are pleased to welcome Patrick Charbonneau, who will join the Department of Chemistry this fall as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Charbonneau is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, and his research interests are in the simulation and theory of the dynamics and thermodynamics of soft matter.