6/11/07  A well-deserved congratulations to Dr. Daniel King, co-winner of the 2007 Allan Rothwarf Award for Teaching Excellence, which is awarded to faculty at the junior level. The award was presented at the 2007 Faculty Recognition Dinner which was held on Wednesday, May 30, 2007.

6/11/07  Congratulations to Mr. William Erb, who is the recipient of the 2007 American Institute of Chemists Graduate Achievement Award. The awardee is selected by the department on the basis of both their academic record and demonstrated accomplishments in research, teaching, and service to the department.

6/11/07  Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Chemistry and the Director of the Drexel Center for Advanced Polymers and Materials Chemistry, has his 384th scientific paper: Shuxi Li (Drexel Chemistry), Apoorva Shah (Triton Systems, Inc.), Alex J. Hsieh (Army Research Lab and MIT), Ross Haghighat (Triton Systems, Inc.), S. Solomon Praveen (Drexel Chemistry), Indraneil Mukherjee (Drexel Chemistry), Elizabeth Wei (Drexel Chemistry), Zongtao Zhang (Drexel Chemistry), and Yen Wei (Drexel Chemistry) on "Characterization of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate - silica) hybrid materials with different silica contents", published online in May 2007 by a prestigious peer-reviewed journal, Polymer.

5/22/07  Congratulations to Thomas Measey, recipient of a Research Excellence Award and James Rieben, recipient of a College of Arts & Sciences College Teaching Award, both of which were presented at the 2nd Annual Graduate Student Day held on May 17, 2007.

5/18/07  Congratulations to the following chemistry department undergraduate students who have won the awards listed below! The awards were officially presented at the College of Arts & Sciences Honors Day which was held on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 2:00 pm in Mandell Theater:

Robert O. Hutchins BIOMOL Prize for Research: Michael Foster
Bruce & Cynthia Maryanoff Research Prize: Nick Paparoidamis
American Chemical Society Philadelphia Section Scholastic Achievement Award: Malka Lev
American Institute of Chemists Award: Robin Smith
Merck Index Award: Ronak Shah
Alexander V. Kornilew Award: Aravindan Jayarasingam
Senior First Honors: Malka Lev
Senior Second Honors: Robin Smith

5/14/07 As read in the May 4, 2007 Drexelink... Dr. Anthony Addison, professor in the Department of Chemistry, received Most Highly Cited Drexel University Paper Published Since 1980 from Hagerty Libraries for the article entitled "Synthesis, Structure and Spectroscopic Properties of Copper(II) Compounds Containing Nitrogen-Sulphur Donor Ligands: The Molecular Structure of Aquq[1,7-bis(N-methylbenzimidazol-2-yl)-2,6-dithiaheptane]-copper(II) perchlorate," published in the 1984 issue of the Jounral of the Chemical Society. He will represent the Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society at the society's national meetings.

5/4/07 Dr. Yen Wei, Herman B. Wagner Professor of Chemistry and the Director of the Center for Advanced Polymers and Materials Chemistry, delivered an invited speech on "Novel Nano-Materials Platforms for Biocatalysis, Drug Release, Neurological Diseases, Dentistry, and Tissue Engineering" at the Conference on Modern Materials -Drivers of the New Economy in The Center for Engineered Polymeric Materials, City University of New York. He also served as panelist on NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) study section. Dr. Wei and Dr. Anthony W. Addison, Professor of Chemistry at Drexel University, are the organizers of the Alan G. MacDiarmid Memorial Symposium at the American Chemical Society Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting (ACS-MARM).

4/30/07 Social networking anyone? Nature's science and technology blog Nascent just did a review of activities on Nature Island in Second Life. Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley has developed an area on Nature Island where his organic chemistry undergraduate students can take quizzes and where his group's research (UsefulChem project) is posted. For further details see http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2007/04/second_nature_and_the_american.html.

4/23/07 This weeks issue of Chemical & Engineering News contains an article that mentions Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley's podcasting of chemistry lectures and the development of Open Notebook Science at Drexel. See http://pubs.acs.org/cen/education/85/8517education.html for details!

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