Alumni
We encourage alumni to keep in touch with us and we welcome news of your accomplishments and updates about new positions. Please send your news for the department newsletter to Brenda Chambers at brendac@andrew.cmu.edu.
Department newsletters since 1997 are available in pdf format.
Mellon College of Science News
Alumni news from the Mellon College of Science.
Alumni information is available on Ph.D. dissertations and positions held by recent graduates.
Alumni News
- Carnegie Mellon Alumni Association Honors Chemistry Alumnus Julius Vida (S '60, '61) with a 2005 Alumni Merit Award.
- Alumnus Dr. Sayam Sen Gupta (S '02) receives a highly competitive Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral work in Germany. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Research Institute working with M.G. Finn.
- Alumnus Dr. Anindya Ghosh (S' 04) receives the Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Student Award for research in green chemistry carried out during his doctoral studies at Carnegie Mellon University under Prof. Terry Collins. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis at the University of Kansas.
- Robert H. Neilson, Carnegie Mellon alumnus, has received the 2003 W. T. Doherty Recognition Award for his research in inorganic polymer chemistry. C&EN News story (Link may require subscription)
- Scott Gaynor (Ph.D. 1997, Chemistry) was named to MIT Technology Review’s 100 innovators 35 or younger. (Technology Review article — free registration required)
- Carnegie Mellon Alumni Association Honors Chemistry Alumni Frank Millero with the 2003 Distinguished Achievement Award and Jennifer Elisseeff with the Young Alumni Award
- Inventor of Kevlar®, Carnegie Mellon Alumna Stephanie L. Kwolek, was inducted into National Women’s Hall of Fame