January 2010

Inter-American Photochemistry Society

20th Winter Conference

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The Inter-American Photochemical Society sponsors annual awards for outstanding contributions to the photochemical sciences. The awardees for 2010 will be selected soon.

 Application for Gerhard Closs Student Award 2010.

Closs was one of the outstanding chemists of the past century, receiving the 1991 A. C. Cope Award in chemistry from the American Chemical Society and the 1992 Award in Photochemistry from the Inter-American Photochemical Society. In addition to his contributions in photochemistry and other areas of chemistry, his contributions to the intellectual and social life of the chemical community are also fondly remembered. Professor Closs was a devoted teacher and mentor, and it is in remembrance of that spirit that the Inter-American Photochemical Society solicits contributions from graduate and undergraduate students for oral presentation at the I-APS Winter Conference on any subject involving the excited states of molecules. The winner will receive travel expenses (up to $500) to attend the meeting and present his/her paper.

Applications for the Gerhard Closs Award consist of a one page abstract for his/her paper, curriculum vitae, and a letter of recommendation from his/her research advisor. Deadline: October 1. Please e-mail your application to Francisco Raymo at fraymo@miami.edu.

 

 

This years recipients were:

 

2009 Closs Award recipient

Tihana Mirkovic
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

2009 Cilento Award recipient

Dr. Mariano Bossi
National Research Council of Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

 

2009 IAPS Award in Photochemistry

V. Ramamurthy
University of Miami
Coral Gables, Florida
~ for his long record of accomplishment in the area of supramolecular photochemistry, where he pioneered the use of microenvironments such as zeolites and capsules to control photochemical product distributions, and his strong contributions to the international community through organization of scientific meetings and editing numerous books and monographs on photochemistry. 

 

 

2009 IAPS Young Investigator Award

Gonzalo Cosa
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
~ for his creative work on developing new fluorescent sensors for reactive oxygen species in living cells and the use of liposome-based conjugated polymers for membrane sensing and single-molecule spectroscopy.
 
 

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