Comings & Goings

During 2005, the following postdoctoral and visiting scholars have joined the group:

• Ivan Aprahamian from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Mordecai Rabinovitz / Tuvia Sheradsky)
• Diego Benítez from the California Institute of Technology (Bob Grubbs)
• Won-Seob Cho from the University of Texas at Austin (Jonathan Sessler)
• William Dichtel from the University of California at Berkeley (Jean Fréchet)
• Taichi Ikeda from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
• Soo Young Kim from the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) (Kimoon Kim) in Pohang, Korea
• Takayoshi Koyama from the JSR Corporation (Hiroaki Nemoto) in Yokkaichi, Japan
• Daniela Lanari from Università degli Studi di Perugia (Aldo Taticchi) in Perugia, Italy
• Ognjen Miljanic from University of California at Berkeley (Peter Vollhardt)
• Jishan Wu from the Max Planck Institut für Polymerforschung (Klaus Müllen)
• Claire Yates from University of Reading, UK (Wayne Hayes)
• Il Yoon from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), (Masumi Asakawa), Tsukuba, Japan
• Yan-Li Zhao from Nankai University, (Yu Liu), Tianjin, China.

During 2005, the following graduate students have left the group:

• Yi Liu (2000-2005) to The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego to gain postdoctoral experience with Barry Sharpless
• Scott Vignon (2001-2005) to Washington DC. Upon completion of his PhD at UCLA, Scott was awarded the Saul Winstein Dissertation Award.

During 2005, the following postdoctoral scholars from the group accepted assistant professorships:

• Jason Belitsky (2002-2005; NIH Postdoctoral Fellow) to the Department of Chemistry at Oberlin College in Ohio.
• Amar Flood (2002-2005) to the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University in Bloomington.
• Alexander (Sasha) Star (2000-2002) to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh from Nanomix in Emeryville, California.

During 2005, the following postdoctoral scholars from the group research associateships in industry:

• Kelly Chichak (2002-2005) and Andrea Peters (2003-2005) to the GE Corporation in Schenectady, New York State.
• Nicolle Moonen (2004-2005) to BASF in Ludwigshafen in Germany.

• Fabio Aricó (2003-2005), a postdoctoral scholar in the group, has accepted a second postdoctoral scholar position at the Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia in Italy.
• Masa Miyaji (2003-2005), a visiting scientist in the group, returned to joined his company, the JSR Corporation in Yokkaichi, Japan.
• Al Nelson (1999-2004), a graduate student in the group, will join IBM at Almaden in November 2005 after having spent one year as a National Institute of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Institute of Technology with Bob Grubbs.

During 2004, the following postdoctoral scholars from the group accepted assistant professorships:

• Jovica Badjic (2001-2004) to the Department of Chemistry at Ohio State University in Columbus
• Paul Bonvallet (2002-2004) to the Department of Chemistry at The College of Wooster in Ohio
• Hsian-Rong Tseng (2001-2004) to the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA