We are deeply saddened to share the passing of Donald Voet. Don was a mainstay in our department for decades, & with Judy, his wife of 58 years, he wrote the indispensable textbook Biochemistry that has been used in countless courses for a generation.
Congratulations to Marisa Kozlowski on being named Editor-in-Chief of
@AmerChemSociety
Organic Letters. The journal returns to
@Penn
where it began over 20 years ago with founding EIC Amos B. Smith, III.
@KozlowskiMarisa
@PennSAS
👏
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Monica E. McCallum will be joining our department faculty as an Assistant Professor. She will be here for our upcoming Graduate Recruiting Open House this weekend. Welcome Monica!
@M_McCallum_PhD
@JohnWoodGroup
@BalskusLab
@HarvardCCB
The new fiscal year means our promotions are all official! Congrats
@ZahraFakhraai
for promotion to Full Professor,
@TomsonLab
for promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure, and Anthony Cirri for promotion to Senior Lecturer!! 🎉🥳
The Physical Chemistry Division of the
@AmerChemSociety
has just established a new award, “The Marsha I. Lester Award for Exemplary Impact in Physical Chemistry”. This new award was announced on Monday at the PHYS reception at the ACS meeting! Congratulations Marsha!!! 👏🎉🥳
Our first ever Virtual Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry is underway!
@icjennikins
@TheBartLab
@JBuriak
are all joining us remotely to share their exciting research!
Thank you to
@jenheemstra
for visiting
@Penn
for the
#WomenInScienceDay
Symposium. Who better to greet her than our very own legend?!? And special thanks to
@WIC_UPenn
for organizing such a terrific day of events.
Today as we celebrate International
#WomenInScienceDay
we are deeply thankful to have these groundbreaking scholars in our department to share their passion for teaching and research.
#WomenInSTEM
@PennSAS
Well this is a great day. The awesome
@sarah_reisman
is joining us for the 2023 Madeleine Joullié Lecture. Magid Abou-Gharbia came back to tell us about the history of the lectureship. Oh, and it was just Madeleine's 96th birthday!
Congratulations to our favorite icon - the legendary Madeleine Joullié - for receiving an honorary degree from
@TempleUniv
. We are always happy to share The Boss with our friends at
@TUChemBot
&
@CST_TempleU
! 🎓🥳
Hope to see everyone at tomorrow's Awards Announcement Event. It's the last event of the 2020-2021 Season for AWIS-PHL. You won't want to miss it! Register here:
The Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania plans to make a tenure track appointment at the Assistant Professor level in organic chemistry.
@penn
@PennSAS
@Chemjobber
Please apply here:
Today we celebrated the retirement of the long time director of our XRay Diffraction Facility, Dr. Pat Carroll. Congrats Pat! We had a special visit by Larry Sneddon to help!
Congratulations to our new Professor of Practice Donna M. Huryn for being selected as the recipient of the 2024 Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal of the
@AmerChemSociety
which recognizes distinguished service to chemistry by women chemists.
#WomenInChemistry
🎉🥳👏
Thanks to all of our friends from
@GSK
Chemistry for an awesome multi-day event, culminating in a keynote address by our own
@DirkTrauner
.
@tyler_higgins14
Congrats to alum
@wmwuest
for receiving the David W. Robertson Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry from ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry!
@AcsMedi
@WuestLab
👏👏
Thank you to everyone that came out and participated in our second annual GSK-Penn Student Symposium featuring Prof. Richard Sarpong. It was a great day!
@SarpongGroup
@GSK
We are thrilled that several of our department members have been honored by
@penn
and
@PennSAS
with awards this year! Congrats to Marisa Kozlowski, Zahra Fakhraai, Brandon Orzolek, & William Neuhaus. Congrats
@KozlowskiMarisa
,
@ZahraFakhraai
,
@b_orzy
Congratulations to 2022 WCC Rising Star Awardee Zahra Fakhraai! She is an Associate Professor of Chemistry
@PennChemistry
researching the influence of surfaces and interfaces on the physical properties of amorphous materials.
#WomenInChem
#WomenInSTEM
#ACSWCCRisingStars2022
We are humbled by the extraordinary generosity of Roy & Diana Vagelos who have provided a transformative gift to foster chemistry and energy education into the future.
A record gift from Roy and Diana Vagelos will fund science and education initiatives across
@PennSAS
. The largest portion of the $83.9M gift enhances graduate education in
@PennChemistry
including the establishment of 20 new Vagelos Fellows. Learn more:
Well this is a great day. The awesome
@sarah_reisman
is joining us for the 2023 Madeleine Joullié Lecture. Magid Abou-Gharbia came back to tell us about the history of the lectureship. Oh, and it was just Madeleine's 96th birthday!
We are beyond delighted to formally announce that Donna Huryn, department alum and long-time friend, is joining Penn as a Professor of Practice this summer. It may not always be sunny, but we can't wait for her to settle in once and for all!
After an extended, on again / off again relationship :) - Excited to be moving my lab full time to
@PennChemistry
at the end of the summer. We will continue with our med chem projects in kidney, ocular, neurodegenerative and rare diseases.
Thanks to everyone who came out to our first Penn Chemistry Day of Service. We came together to assemble care packages for residents of area shelters. Special thanks to
@TheNetterCenter
&
@upchem_sunshine
for helping make it a success. Already looking forward to the next one!
Congratulations to the Penn Chemistry staff that received the 2022
@PennSAS
Staff Recognition Awards! Great job Jun, Rosa, & Marta! And congrats Janice too!
@scheltergroup
@ZahraFakhraai
We celebrated our summer
@NSF
REU program students with a poster session and ceremony today. We are so proud of all these outstanding young scholars. Great job everyone! 👏👏
In 1949 Madeleine Joullié was the only woman grad student in chemistry at Penn. Since then, she's synthesized compounds used in medical treatments and fingerprint analysis, pushed for equal opportunity, and taught 1000s of students.
@Penn
@PennChemistry
What a day! We were there for the topping-off ceremony of the brand new Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology! Roy Vagelos was here to help celebrate and we heard from our President, Deans, and our awesome Karen Golberg!
@VIPERatPenn
@VagelosEnergy
#EnergyatPenn
Congrats to Lauren Grant (Mindiola group) for receiving an ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award! She will be participating in the DIC Young Investigator Symposium at the Fall ACS meeting in San Diego. Great job!
@MindiolaGroup
@AmerChemSociety
Congratulations to Marsha Lester, who has been named Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. Lester studies fundamental aspects of the oxidation of volatile organic compounds present in the earth's atmosphere.
@Penn
@PennChemistry
Here is one of my most important mentors
@PennChemistry
- she showed me by example: excellence, perseverance, and lack of tolerance for inequity and BS.
@NatureComms
Congratulations to Prof. Marsha I. Lester on being named the recipient of the American Chemical Society Philadelphia Section Award, to be given October 16. Come for the lecture, stay for the party!
@PhilaACS
@PennSAS
@theNASciences
Everyone needs a little break now and then. Thanks to all who came out to enjoy our first Penn Chemistry Coffee Break of the semester. The coffee and bagels from Bart’s were a hit.
The 2020 class of
@AmerChemSociety
Fellows has been announced! Thrilled to see this recognition for our Librarian extraordinaire Judith Currano as well as our distinguished alumnae JoAnne Stubbe (
@ChemistryMIT
) & Ruth Wexler (
@bmsnews
).
@upennlib
@PennSAS
Congratulations to all of our Chemistry graduates as they celebrate commencement today. You have all navigated a year like no other, and did it with strength and resilience. 👏🎉🥳
Tonight was supposed to be our
@PennChemistry
Alumni Reception
@SciHistoryOrg
for
#ACSPhilly
. These events are always a blast, especially in Philly. Since we can't celebrate in person now, let’s celebrate here. Tag others & check in for our virtual tweetup! We miss you - be safe!
Thank you to everyone who came out to our Graduate Program Open House. We had a great time and made a lot of new friends. And special thanks to our staff and volunteers for making it happen!
Department Chair David Christianson kicked off our annual Chemistry Department Awards Ceremony with grad student awards. Ivan Dmochowski & Jeff Saven followed with undergrad awards. Congrats to all of our student awardees!
@ChristiansonLab
@PennSAS
Had a great time with Harry Gray last week for MacDiarmid Medal Lecture! At the reception,
@DmochowskiUPenn
even shared his photos from the day w/
@SchelterGroup
, Larry Sneddon & Don Voet!
We are excited to announce that David Christianson will be the new Chemistry Dept. Chair effective July 1. We cannot thank Gary Molander enough for his tireless efforts as Chair for the last 9 years.
@ChristiansonLab
@molandergroup
@PennSAS
Sad news from our friends at Caltech. Here is a happy memory when Bob visited to give the
@Axalta
Lecture in 2015. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues.
The Division is saddened to report the passing of Robert Grubbs. The outpouring of memories being shared is a testament to his profound impact and influence as a professor, mentor, colleague & friend -- not only in the chemistry community, but beyond.
He will be greatly missed.
Congratulations to Chris Murray, Richard Perry University Professor of Chemistry & Materials Science and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, on his election to the National Academy of Engineering!
@Penn
@PennSAS
@PennEngineers
@theNAEng
.
Please join us this evening as Prof. Marsha I. Lester receives the ACS Philadelphia Section Award! Reception 5pm in Nobel Hall of Fame. Lecture 6pm in Lynch Lecture Hall.
@PhilaACS
@theNASciences
@AmerChemSociety
@PennSAS
Congratulations to my distinguished
@PennChemistry
colleague Joe Subotnik, just elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
@APSphysics
, for pioneering theoretical approaches to advance our understanding of photo-induced processes and dissipation at metal-molecule interfaces.
Our semi-annual Penn Chemistry Faculty Colloquium has kicked off with the awesome
@DMHuryn
who is discussing both her current research and her career in industry and academics.
We are excited to kick off our annual named lecture series on Monday as Dr. Rebecca Ruck joins us from Merck to deliver the Sigma-Aldrich Distinguished Lecture at
@penn
.
@Ruck_chem
@SigmaAldrich
@Merck