July 2017

July 31: The department mourns the passing of , secretary in the department until 2009 and longtime friend to many of us.

Harriet and the chairs with whom she worked. Left to right: Mark Kobrak, Jim Howell, Maggie Ciszkowska, Harriet Weinrieb, Dominick Labianca, David Goldberg, Seymour Aronson, and Gary Mennitt. Not present: Norman Indictor, Evan Williams, and Leon Gortler.

July 11: Assistant Professor Torrente is featured as an .

July 7: Assistant Professor Gallicchio is the recipient of the 2017 from the CUNY Academy.

June 2017

June 23: Emeritus Professor Leon Gortler publishes “Private Philanthropy and Basic Research in Mid-Twentieth Century America: The Hickrill Chemical Research Foundation” in the journal .

May 2017

May 26: Professor Juszczak publishes “The color of cation-蟺 interactions: Subtleties of amine-tryptophan interaction energetics allow for radical-like visible absorbance and fluorescence” in the .

May 20: Professor Gail Horowitz receives the 可乐视频 Award for Excellence in Teaching

May 19: Congratulations to Ph.D. student Niluksha Walalawela (Professor Greer’s lab), recipient of the 2017 from the CUNY Ph.D. Program in Chemistry.

May 5: Congratulations to Ph.D. student Danielle Hirsch (Professor Murelli’s lab), recipient of the by the CUNY Graduate Center.

April 2017

April 5: Professor Maria Contel scores patent for .

February聽 2017

February 7: Assistant Professor Gallicchio publishes “Efficient Gaussian Density Formulation of Volume and Surface Areas of Macromolecules on Graphical Processing Units” in the .