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Overview of the Department of Chemistry Chair Daniel M. Neumark

Overview of the Department of Chemistry Chair Daniel M. Neumark. Overview of the Department :. Faculty: 51 assistant, associate, and full professors (includes 0% and 50% appointments) 14 members of NAS 6 have received UCB Distinguished Teaching Award

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Overview of the Department of Chemistry Chair Daniel M. Neumark

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  1. Overview of the Department of Chemistry Chair Daniel M. Neumark

  2. Overview of the Department : Faculty: • 51 assistant, associate, and full professors (includes 0% and 50% appointments) • 14 members of NAS • 6 have received UCB Distinguished Teaching Award Chemistry graduate student population: • 415 students • 102 PhD's awarded within last 12 months • 93 graduate students entering the program Fall 2011 Post-doc population: • 95 Undergraduate chemistry/chembio majors: • 394

  3. Faculty by Interest Group • Physical - 13 • Theoretical- 4 • Organic- 8 • Inorganic- 7 • Chemical Biology- 13 • Nuclear/analytical - 6

  4. Diversity Trends

  5. Departmental Committees Vice Chairs • ChemBio Grad Program- JamieCate • Physical Grad Program- Phil Geissler • Synthetic Grad Program- DeanToste • Instruction- Ron Cohen Departmental Committees • Planning:Bertozzi (Chair), Bergman, Leone, Saykally, Yang • Ex officio: Cate, Cohen, Toste, Geissler • Awards:Vollhardt (Chair), Bertozzi, Somorjai, Tilley, Williams • Curriculum:Francis (Chair), Baranger, Majda, Saykally, Cohen (VC of Instruction) • Graduate Life:Long (Chair), Cuk, Geissler, Hartwig, Douskey, GSO, Peter Mustonen • Visiting Fellows Advisory:Tinoco (Chair), Long, Miller • Lecturer Mentorship:Baranger (Chair), Bergman, Pedersen • Teaching Awards: Lamoreaux (Chair), Douskey, Sarpong

  6. Interactions with other units • Faculty with joint appointments in Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, Molecular and Cell Biology, Chemical Engineering, Earth and Planetary Sciences • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory • More than 35 Chemistry faculty have shared appointments in an LBNL division (Chemical, Materials, Physical Biosciences) • Programs within LBNL with significant Chemistry participation: Helios SERC (Solar Energy Research Center), JCAP (Joint Center for Artifical Photosynthesis, JBEI (Joint Bioenergy Institute), UXSL (Ultrafast X-ray Science Laboratory) • QB3 • EBI (Energy Biosciences Institute) • BASC(Berkeley Atmosheric Science Center) • Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry • Energy Frontier Research Center for Carbon Capture

  7. Key Appointments Graham Fleming Vice Chancellor for Research Steve Leone CSD/LBL PaulAlivisatos Director, LBL John Arnold Director, Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry

  8. More Key Appointments Berend Smit Director, Carbon capture EFRC Peidong Yang Director, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis Ron Cohen Director, Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center

  9. Faculty Recruitment The Dept is currently recruiting two positions for a tenured faculty member with an appointment to begin in 2011. Omar Yaghi (current prospect) Appointments: Three faculty were appointed effective summer 2011: Felix Fischer Anne Baranger(50%) John Hartwig

  10. Faculty Recruitment • Current efforts: • The Chemistry Department and LBNL are recruiting Omar Yaghi from UCLA to be Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Molecular Foundry • Search is on for two junior positions. Looking in all fields with preference for theory, chemical biology, organic chemistry

  11. Retirements and Retentions Retirements 2011: • William Miller, Jean Frechet Departures 2011: • Michael Marletta • Assumed the presidency of The Scripps Research Institute in July 2011. Retentions 2011: • Current retention efforts • Martin Head-Gordon (Yale) • Peidong Yang (Stanford)

  12. Department of Chemistry Awards • Robert Bergman- 2011-12 Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, UC Berkeley • Robert Bergman- 2011 Willard Gibbs Award, ACS Chicago Section • Carolyn Bertozzi- 2011 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry • Carolyn Bertozzi- 2011 Elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine • David Chandler- 2011 Elected Foreign Member, The Royal Society • David Chandler- 2011 Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award • Christopher Chang- 2011 Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry Early Career Award • Phillip Geissler- 2011 UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award • Naomi Ginsberg- 2011 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering • Ming Hammond- 2011 Regents’ Junior Faculty Fellowship, UC Berkeley • Ming Hammond- 2010-2011 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award

  13. Department of Chemistry Awards cont. • Martin Head-Gordon- 2011 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow • Jeffrey Long- 2011 Miller Research Professorship • HeinoNitsche- 2011 American Chemical Society Fellow • Richmond Sarpong- 2011 Ginsburg Lecturer Award • Richmond Sarpong- 2011 Scientific Society of Japan Lectureship Award • Richard Saykally- 2011 JC Bose Lectureship, Indian Association of Culture and Society • Richard Saykally- 2011 Morris Travers Lectureship, Indian Institute for Science-Bangalore • Gabor Somorjai- ENI New Frontiers in Hydrocarbons Award • Gabor Somorjai- 2011 Honda Prize • Gabor Somorjai- 2010 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences • Dean Toste- 2011 Mukaiyama Award, Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry Japan

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