| 1 Septmeber 2009 |
The group welcomes new postdoc, Tony Wetherby, a
freshly minted Ph. D. graduate from Scott
Weinert's group at Oklahoma State Univesity. |
| 25 May 2009 |
Rory
Waterman is named a Cottrell Scholar by the Research Corporation for
Science Advancement. The award recognizes teaching and
research in young investigators. See the annoucement in Physics Today,
UVM
Communications, and the Burlington Free Press. |
| 17 May 2009 |
Graduation!
The group congratulates
Jill Davidson (BS in chemistry) and wishes her
the best of luck in graduate study in chemistry at Texas A&M
University.
Joe
Wright as (BA
in chemistry) and wishes him the best of luck in pursuing an MAT with
teaching licensure at UVM. |
| 10 April 2009 |
Eliza
Arsenalt wins a HELiX
Summer Internship Award,
one of the last from this program before this kind of grant is handled
by the Honors College, to support her research on new dehydrocoupling
catalysts. |
| 9 April 2009 |
Teaching Awards.
Waterman group graduate students are almost as excellent teachers they
are researchers.
Sarah Leshinski wins the Department's first-year graduate
Student Teaching Award.
Andrew Roering earned a nomination for Gratuate Teaching
Fellow of the Year. |
| 9 April 2009 |
Student Awards.
Waterman group memebers had an great showing this year.
Senior
Joe Wright wins the American Institute of Chemists
Award--rounding out four department awards in four years for Joe.
Junior Taylor
Elrod wins a Clinton D. Cook Award for his academic
performance this year. |
| 3 April 2009 |
Eliza
Arsenault wins a College of Arts and Science APEL
Summer Stipend Award to support her research. |
| 2 April 2009 |
Former
Project SEED summer researcher Stephanie
Chan wins a Fosbinder Scholarship to support her studies
at Dartmouth College. |
| 12 March 2009 |
Jill
Davidson wins the 2009
Mariafranca
Morselli Leadership Award recognizing academic and leadership
qualities of a UVM undergraduate woman in the
sciences. |
| 1 March 2009 |
Jill
Davidson wins a
Division
of Inorganic Chemistry Student Travel
Award to support her
presentation at the up coming ACS
National Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT. |
| March 2009 |
The group welcomes new graduate student Anita Dasu. |
| 28 February 2009 |
Jill
Davidson wins a
Ronald Suiter Travel Prize from the College of Arts and
Sciences to support her presentation at the up coming ACS
National Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT. |
| 17 February 2009 |
Rory
Waterman is named a 2009 Alfred P. Sloan
Research Fellow. A list of fellows can be found here.
Write-ups about the award have appeared from UVM
Communications and Chemical and Engineering News. |
| 24 January 2009 |
The 18th Boston
Regional Inorganic Colloquium, co-organized by the Waterman
and Rybak-Akimova groups, is a huge success. |
| January
2009 |
Our
article "Metal-Phosphido
and -Phosphinidene Complexes in P–E Bond-Forming Reactions"
is featured on the cover of the first edition of Dalton Transactions
in 2009. Check out the cover here. |
| 12 December 2008 |
Andy Roering wins a
Ronald Suiter Travel Prize from the College of Arts and
Sciences to support his presentation at the up coming ACS
National Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT. |
| 3 December 2008 |
Our
publication "General
Preparation of (N3N)ZrX (N3N
= N(CH2CH2NSiMe3)33–)
Complexes from a Hydride Surrogate" has appeared in the ASAP
section of the journal Organometallics. |
| 28 November 2008 |
Rory
Waterman is
profiled in the Reactions
section of Nature
Chemistry's Sceptical
Chymist blog. |
| November 2008 |
The
group welcomes new graduate student Sarah
Leshinski and joint graduate students William Barker (co-Geiger
group) and Victoria
Carahart (co-Landry group). |
| 3 September 2008 |
Our
Project SEED program is the subject of an article in the View. |
| 2 September 2008 |
The particpation of Stephanie Chan and Amsal Karic in Project SEED at UVM has been featured in the Burlington
Free Press. |
| 29 June 2008 |
The "Organometallic Chemistry of the Group 15
Elements" Symposium at the
Northeast Regional ACS Meeting in Burlington is a great
success. |
| June 2008 |
The Waterman group welcomes new Project SEED
student Amsal Karic
and returning Project SEED researcher Stephanie Chan to
the group. |
| 1 May 2008 |
Rory
Waterman wins an NSF
CAREER Award!
This award will support his efforts to discover new bond-forming
catalysis, include underrepresented groups in chemistry, and improve
science literacy.
Waterman joins UVM
colleagues Matthias
Brewer (Department of Chemistry) and Frederic
Sansoz (College
of Engineering and Mathematics) who have been granted CAREER Awards
this year. Waterman's is the 10th CAREER Award at UVM, three
of which have been in the Department of Chemistry. |
| 24 April 2008 |
Department of Chemistry Awards:
Doug Fox
wins the Chemical Rubber Company (CRC) Award for an outstanding first-
year chemistry student.
Andy Roering
shares the Senior Graduate Student Teaching Award with classmate Jodi
Wyman. |
| 17 April 2008 |
15 minutes of fame: Jill Davidson's
research involving insertion reactivity of Zr-As bonds is noted in a profile
of undergraduate research at UVM in the Burlington Free Press. |
| 17 April 2008 |
Andy
Roering and Jill
Davidson present at the inaugural UVM Student Research
Conference. |
| 6 April 2008 |
Look
for our presentation, "Zirconium-Catalyzed Bond-Forming Reactions,"
(INOR 020) at the American
Chemical Society
National Meeting in New Orleans as part of the symposium in
honor of T. Don Tilley, the 2008 Kipping Award winner.
Congratulations, Don!
|
| 14
March 2008 |
Jillian
Davidson wins an Undergraduate Research Endeavors
Competitive Award (URECA!)
to support her research on Zr-As bond reactivity. |
| 9 January 2008 |
Our publication, "Mechanistic
Variety in
Zirconium-Catalyzed Bond-Forming Reaction of Arsines" has been accpted to the journal Dalton Transactions.
This paper is part of our contruibution to Dalton
Discussion 11: The
Renaissance of
Main Group Chemistry in Berkeley, CA, this June. |
| 5 January 2008 |
Abstract submission is open for the Northeast
Reagional ACS National Meeting (NERM
2008). It is another great reason to visit
scenic northern Vermont in the summer. |
| December 2007 |
From the "you can take this job and shove it"
department:
Dr. James
(Chad) Morris has accepted a position at Georgia Tech as
an instructor.
Best of luck in GA, Chad!
|
| 30 August 2007 |
Red Ribbon!
Rory Waterman
wins second place in the men's baking competition at the Champlain Valley Fair. |
| 19 August 2007 |
Waterman
Group on the
road
Look
for our presentation, "Synthesis and Reactivity of New Group 4
Triamidoamine Complexes," (INOR 127) at the American Chemical Society
National Meeting in Boston. |
| 13 August 2007 |
Summer I Project SEED researcher Stephanie Chan
(South Burlington High School) is awarded a prestigious Green
and Gold Scholarship to UVM. Congratulations, Stephanie! |
| 13 August 2007 |
Our
publication, "Zirconium-Catalyzed
Heterodehydrocoupling of Primary Phosphines with Silanes and Germanes,"
has appeared in the journal Inorganic Chemistry. |
| 10 August 2007 |
Summer I Project SEED researcher Stephanie Chan was
profiled in the Green
Mountain ACS Local Section newsletter.
We are grateful to the local section for their support of Stephanie's
research. |
| 20 May 2007 |
Graduation
at UVM
Kyle
Donovan is earning a BS in chemistry
Mellisa
Ly is earning two degrees: a BA in Chemistry and a BS in
biochemistry
Congratulations and best of luck to Kyle and Mellisa! |
| 7 May 2007 |
Our first
publication, "Selective
Dehydrocoupling of Phosphines by Triamidoamine Zirconium Catalysts,"
has appeared in the journal Organometallics. |
| 15 March 2007 |
Mellisa
Ly wins
a UVM College of Arts and Sciences APEL
Award for her research in early-transition-metal ligand
design. |
| March 2007 |
Waterman
Group on the
road
Look
for our presentation, "Catalytic
P–P and P–E Bond Formation via Zirconium- Mediated
Phosphine Dehydrocoupling," (INOR 161) at the American Chemical Society
National Meeting in Chicago. |
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