Stephanie Brock has been promoted to the rank of Professor.

Professor Vladimir Chernyak has been granted tenure.

Professor Tamara Hendrickson has received the 2009/2010 Career Development Chair Award.

Professor Christine Chow is a recipient of the 2009 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award.

Professor H. Bernhard Schlegel has been named as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009.

Mary Kay Pflum has been promoted to Associate Professor with continuing tenure.

Claudio N. Verani has been promoted to Associate Professor with continuing tenure.

Congratulations to Prof. Mary Rodgers on being awarded the Board of Governors Distinguished Faculty Fellowship, which recognizes members of the faculty whose continuing attainments and current activities in scholarship, research, or in the fine and performing arts are nationally distinguished.

Congratulations to Prof. Andrew Feig, the recipient of the 2008/09 Career Development Award.

 Congratulations to Prof. David Rueda for being the recipient of a 2008 NSF CAREER award.

Prof. Mary-Kay Pflum received the 2008 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, presented to outstanding faculty who, to an exceptionally high degree, demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of their subject, superior classroom performance, and high educational standards; communicate their subject matter accurately, clearly, and effectively; generate enthusiasm and respect for learning; motivate their students to excel; and, who are accessible to students.

Carl R. Johnson, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and former Chair of the Department received the 2008 Paul G. Gassman Distinguished Service Award from the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry at the ACS national meeting in Philadelphia in August 2008. Prof. Johnson's record of service to organic chemistry has included serving on the executive committee and as chair of the Division, serving as the National Organic Chemistry Symposium Executive Officer, service as an Associate Editor of J. Am. Chem. Soc., chairing three Gordon Research Conferences, and more than 35 years of service as an editor, member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of Organic Syntheses. The Gassman Award has been given biennially since 1994. The late Prof. Norman A. LeBel of our department received the 1996 award. Other prior award winners were Nelson Leonard and Peter Beak of the University of Illinois, Michael Doyle of the University of Maryland, William Roush of the University of Michigan, Clayton Heathcock of the University of California, Berkeley, and Ronald Breslow of Columbia University.