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Holden Thorp (PhD, Chemistry ‘89) has been named Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  A native of North Carolina and an undergrad at UNC, Holden has been a faculty member at UNC for 15 years. Congratulations, Holden!  For more information please click here. Three new faculty colleagues have now joined us:   Sarah Reisman joined our organic chemistry group as assistant professor in June 2008.. Thomas Miller joined our theory group in June 2008.  Theodor Agapie has re-joined our inorganic chemistry group. Theo earned his Ph.D. degree in the Division under the supervision of John Bercaw. Vivek Narsimhan, a senior chemical engineering undergraduate, has been awarded a Churchill Scholarship for graduate study at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.  Vivek plans to complete a certificate in advanced mathematics.  Congratulations, Vivek! Todd Gingrich, a senior chemistry undergraduate, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study in theoretical chemistry at Oxford University. Congratulations, Todd! We are pleased to announce that Shu-ou Shan, and chemical engineering alumnus Yi Tang, Assistant Professor at UCLA (Caltech Ph.D. 2002) have been awarded Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering.  Packard Fellowships include awards of $625,000 over 5 years to unusually creative researchers early in their careers. Bil Clemons has received a 2007 Searle Scholars Award for research entitled: Structural Studies of N-Linked Protein Glycosylation. For more information please see Dr. Clemons' website.

 

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