What's New Harry Gray, Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute at Caltech, has been named the recipient of the 2009 Welch Award in Chemistry for definitive contributions to the field of inorganic chemistry and advances in solar fuel. For details, please click here. Heather Agnew, a graduate student in Chemistry, has received the Anna Louise Hoffman Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Research for developing new technologies to measure protein biomarkers under the guidance of Professor James Heath. For details, please see this page (PDF). Brian M. Stoltz, Bowles Professor of Chemistry, has been awarded the 2009 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences for Chemistry for developing "enatioselective methods for oxidation and catalytic bond construction, and their utilization for the total synthesis of complex natural products."  For more details, please click here. Robert H. Grubbs, Atkins Professor of Chemistry, has received the 2009 ACS Award for Creative Invention from the American Chemical Society. For more information, please click here. Benji Lin, a chemistry undergraduate, has been awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship for graduate study in reaction mechanisms at the University of Oslo in Norway. For details, please click here. Shu-ou Shan has received the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for 2009.  For further information, please click here. Dennis A. Dougherty, George Grant Hoag Professor of Chemistry, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences on April 28 at the 146th annual meeting of the Academy in Washington DC.  For the Academy Press Release, please click here. John D. Roberts, Institute Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, was awarded the 2009 NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society "for seminal contributions in physical organic chemistry, in particular the introduction of NMR spectroscopy to the chemistry community." Ahmed Zewail, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and Physics, has been named by President Barack Obama to the United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). For more details, please click here. The Günther Laukien Prize 2009 has been awarded to Daniel P. Weitekamp at the 50th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference for his innovative contributions to NMR Methodology. Please click here for more info. Jacqueline K. Barton, Caltech's Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor, has been named Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, effective July 1.  For more details, please click here. Graduate student Ophir Vermesh has won the first annual Lemelson-Caltech Student Prize.  For more details, please click here.

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