Sunday, June 1, 2014

Chemistry Bumper Cars, 2014-2015

'Tis the season for chemistry faculty to pack up their U-Hauls, distribute plane tickets to the post-docs, and relocate their labs halfway across the country. 2014's shaping up to be not much different from previous cycles.

For this year's moves, I'm adopting the ChemBark format, picking up roughly where he left off.

**Know of someone missing? Let me know in the comments!

Moves

Sarbajit Banerjee (SUNY-Buffalo to Texas A+M)
Timothy Bertram (UCSD to Wisconsin)
Carolyn Bertozzi (Berkeley to Stanford)
Christopher Bielawski (UT-Austin to UNIST)
Erin Carlson (Indiana to Minnesota)
John Clayden (Manchester to Bristol)
Andrew Cleland (UCSB to Chicago)
Vicki Colvin (Rice to Brown, admin)
James Dalton (industry to Michigan, admin)
Scott Daly (G. Washington to Iowa)
Darren Derksen (SFX to Calgary)
Thomas Dunning (NIAC to Washington)
Katherine Faber (Northwestern to Caltech)
Eric Ferreira (Colo State to Georgia)
Joseph Francisco (Purdue to UNL, admin)
Giulia Galli (UC Davis to Chicago)
Justin Gallivan (Emory to DARPA)
Richard Gross (NYU Poly to Rensselaer)
Michael Gross (Bucknell to Wake Forest)
Mei Hong (Iowa State to MIT)
Jeffrey Hubbell (EPFL to Chicago)
Ramesh Jasti (BU to Oregon)
William Kittleman (Birmingham-Southern to Millersville)
Angela Koehler (Broad to MIT)  thanks, Anon!
Yamuna Krishnan (NCBS-Bangalore to Chicago)
Igor Larrosa (QM to Manchester)
Marcus Lay (UGA to Cooper Union)
Wenbin Lin (UNC to Chicago)
Mi Hee Lim (Michigan to UNIST)
Andrew Lyon (GA Inst. Tech to Chapman, admin)   thanks, Anon!
Lane Martin (UIUC to Berkeley)
Jim Mayer (Washington to Yale)
Phil Messersmith (Northwestern to Berkeley)
Gerald Meyer (Hopkins to UNC)   thanks, Anon!
Dan Mindiola (Indiana University to Penn)
Nouri Neamati (USC to Michigan, 2013)
Andrew Phillips (Yale to Broad)
Eran Rabani (Tel Aviv to Berkeley)  thanks, Max!
Gayan Rubasinghege (St. Cloud to New Mexico Tech)
Elizabeth Rhoades (Yale to Penn)
Tobias Ritter (Harvard to Max Planck, 2015)  thanks, Anon!
Jan-Uwe Rohde (Iowa to UNIST)   thanks, Anon!
Peter Rossky (UT-Austin to Rice, admin)   thanks, Anon!
Alan Saghatelian (Harvard to Salk)
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr (Iowa State to Brandeis  thanks, MJ!
Gregory Scholes (Toronto to Princeton)
Dionicio Siegel (UT-Austin to UCSD Pharmacy)
Melody Swartz (EPFL to Chicago)
Paul Thompson (Scripps to UMass Medical)
Kallie Willets (UT-Austin to Temple)
Bryan Wong (Drexel to UC-Riverside)
Damian Young (Broad to Baylor)


Source: U-Haul.com

New Hires

Brett Fors (Cornell)
Neil Tomson (Penn)
Sophie Rousseaux (Toronto)
Tianning Diao (NYU)
Steve Townsend (Vanderbilt)
Jeffrey Rinehart (UCSD)
Jeff van Humbeck (MIT)
Alex Shalek (MIT)
Dave Martin (UC-Riverside)
De-en Jiang (UC-Riverside)
David Sarlah (Illinois)
Jessica Anna (Penn)
Sarah Slavoff (Yale)
Hailang Wang (Yale)
Ziad Ganim (Yale)
David Nagib (Ohio State)
Sergey Pronin (UC-Irvine)
Gerald Knizia (Penn State)
Jefferson Chan (Illinois)
Brett VanVeller (Iowa State)
Vincenzo Venditti (Iowa State)
Bryan Dickinson (Chicago)
Alexander Spokoyny (UCLA)
Matthew Cain (U. Hawaii)
Raymond Moellering (Chicago)
Nicole Becker (Iowa)
Heather Jaeger (Lehigh)
Tim Cook (U Buffalo)
Melanie Chiu (Stony Brook)
Christopher Johnson (Stony Brook)
Ignacio Franco (Rochester)
Nathan Jui (Emory)
Jacob Schwartz (Arizona)
Kateri DuBay (UVA)
Michelle Dolgos (Oregon State)
Dipankar Koley (Oregon State)
Sandra Loesgen (Oregon State)
Jesse Zalatan (Washington)
Cody Schlenker (Washington)
James Prell (Oregon)
Aaron Franklin (Duke)
Alex Grenning (Florida)    thanks, Rob!
Suri Vaikuntanathan (Chicago)   thanks, Andrew!
Sarah Wengryniuk (Temple)   thanks, Brando!
Graham Dobereiner (Temple)
Zac Hudson (UBC)   thanks, Anon!
Aaron Vannucci (South Carolina)    thanks, Anon!
Laina Geary (U. Nevada-Reno)  thanks, Anon!
Ryan Rafferty (Kansas State)     thanks, SupraChem!
Chen Zhou (Central Misssouri)    thanks, UCTDM!
Jonah Jurss (Ole Miss)
Brian Michel (U. Denver)
Michael Nippe (Texas A+M)
James Frederich (FSU)
Yan-Yan Hu (FSU)
Justin Kennemur (FSU)    thanks, Vastib!
Adam Duerfeldt (Oklahoma) thanks, Alex!
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen (MIT)
Stacy Smith (BYU)
David Michaelis (BYU)
Michael Ragusa (Dartmouth)
Derek Schipper (Waterloo)
Stephen Newman (Ottawa)
Jatinder Josan (VA Tech)
Avena Ross (Queens)
Nick Kuklinski (Furman)
Christina Vizcarra (Barnard)
Emily Derbyshire (Duke)
Anton Dubrovskiy [@SynthChem] (Houston Clear Lake)
Bill Morandi (Max Planck)
Feifei Li (New Mexico State)
Thomas Teets (U Houston)
Severin Schneebeli (Vermont)
Keith Reber (Towson)
Christine Caputo (New Hampshire)
Leila Deravi (New Hampshire)
Yftah Tal-Gan (Nevada-Reno)
Marco Caricato (Kansas)
Nozomi Ando (Princeton)
Elliott Hulley (Wyoming)
Andrew McNally (Colorado State)
Martin McCullagh (Colorado State)
Eilaf Ahmed (Emory)
Ronald Grimm (WPI)
Matthew Sheldon (Texas A+M)
Julio D'Arcy (Washington U - St. Louis)
Graham Griffin (DePaul)
Zhang Wang (Albany)
Luisa Whittaker-Brooks (Utah)
Michael Grunwald (Utah)
Douglas Genna (Youngstown St.)
Abhinav Nath (Washington)
Kevin Cash (Colorado Mines)
Rebecca Scheck (Tufts)
Robyn Biggs (Oklahoma)
Kenneth Graham (Kentucky)
Peter Kekenes-Huskey (Kentucky)
Anusree Mukherjee (Alabama-Huntsville)
Ku-Lung Hsu (Virginia)
Chad Risko (Kentucky)
Kara Stowers (BYU)
Ryan Baxter (UC Merced)
Ben Stokes (UC-Merced)
Carsten Milsmann (West Virginia)
Wei Xiong (UCSD)
Wei-Tsung Lee (Loyola Chicago)
Michal Szostak (Rutgers)
Mark Chen (Lehigh)
Lina Cui (New Mexico)
Joel Yuen-Zhou (UCSD)
Ampofo Darko (UT-Knoxville)
Sharani Roy (UT-Knoxville)
Anthony Appleton (Stetson)
Kyle Friend (Washington + Lee)
Eugene Pinkhassik (UConn)
Indrajeet Sharma (Oklahoma)
Scott Geyer (Wake Forest)

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ChemBark's fantastic 2012-2013 roundup .
For earlier faculty moves, click here.

110 comments:

  1. Gerald Meyer (Johns Hopkins to UNC) http://www.chem.unc.edu/people/faculty/meyer_ge/

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  2. Andrew McNally, Colorado state

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  3. Zac Hudson, UBC (in 2015)
    http://www.chem.queensu.ca/people/faculty/Wang/

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  4. New hire: Aaron Vannucci South Carolina

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  5. Zhang Wang (danishefsky phd Macmillan postdoc) to UAlbany.

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  6. Paul Thompson from Scripps Florida to Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at UMASS Medical School

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  7. New hire: Laina Geary, University of Nevada Reno

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  8. Tobias Ritter to Max Planck

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  9. jim mcdonath is moving to UBLC

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  10. (not earlier anon)
    can corroborate the Ritter move. he's not moving for a year though.

    also saghatelian to Salk's been a done deal for a while. he'll be moving this year.

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    1. Got it. Will post on Ritter when I see something on Planck side

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    2. I have heard that the Ritter move is a very likely possibility, but not 100% and it won't happen until summer 2015.

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  11. Peter Rossky is moving UT Austin -> Rice; he'll be Rice's new Dean of Natural Sciences and hold the Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Chair in chemistry.

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  12. Paul Thompson is on the UMASS Med web site

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  13. New hire: Gabriela Schlau-Cohen to MIT (http://chemistry.mit.edu/gabriela-schlau-cohen-join-department)

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  14. More new hires: Ben Stokes, UC-Merced; Ryan Baxter, UC-Merced; Kara Stowers, BYU

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    1. I'll go ahead and confirm Kara Stowers

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  15. Kind of surprised no one beat me to this one, especially as the other half of this chemistry power couple was already listed -

    Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, Iowa State to Brandeis.

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  16. New hire, Michael Ragusa to Dartmouth, https://chemistry.dartmouth.edu/
    Go Big Green

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  17. does anyone know if Harvard Chemistry hired someone new?

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  18. Got two somewhat old moves (middle of 2013-2014):

    Mi Hee Lim from Michigan to UNIST (http://chemistry.unist.ac.kr/research/mhlim.html)
    Jan-Uwe Rohde from Iowa to UNIST (http://www.chem.uiowa.edu/people/jan-uwe-rohde)

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  19. Anyone know if Toronto made a hire?

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  20. Clayden to Bristol

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  21. New hire/move: Damian Young - Broad Institute to Baylor College of Medicine

    http://www.cprit.state.tx.us/news/cancer-prevention-and-research-institute-of-texas-awards-three-new-research-grants/

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  22. New: Angela Koehler, from Broad Institute to MIT biological engineering.

    http://web.mit.edu/be/people/koehler.shtml

    Both Koehler and Young were trained by Stuart Schreiber.

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  23. New hire: Anton Dubrovskiy (Reisman Postdoc, Caltech)- University of Houston, Clear Lake

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  24. Andy Phillips from Yale to Broad Institute

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    1. Heard the same

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    2. I wonder if Andy will be happy at any places. First at University of Colorado then Yale for few years now to Broad Institute.

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    3. I was getting my PhD when he was at Colorado. Seemed pretty happy there and he bike-raced too. After his sabbatical at Brod he said it was his dream job. Why not leave Yale?

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  25. Small correction: Neil Tomson is the correct spelling.

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  26. Derek Schipper at uWaterloo
    Stephen Newman at uOttawa

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  27. I could elaborate the Koehler case more. Koehler's former position in Broad is not tenure-track. She is now a tenure-track assistant professor at MIT and only keeps an affiliated position in Broad. Her lab space moved to the MIT side earlier this year.

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  28. Andy McNally is going to Colorado state. Also Martin McCullagh from Voth's group at Chiacgo is also going to Colorado State.

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    1. Anon - What I mean by "confirm" is to see Colorado State put out a news blurb confirming both hires. Perhaps those readers in the know could make that request to their webmaster? : )

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    2. That is not as simple as it sounds. If you give me an email address to send stuff to I'll give you proof.

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    3. seearroh_AT_gmail. Much appreciated!

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  29. Eilaf Ahmed - New Hire, Emory - not on website yet, but likely soon.

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  30. Carolyn Bertozzi to Stanford

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  31. Bertozzi moves to Stanford in 2015

    https://chemh.stanford.edu/news/carolyn-bertozzi-join-chem-h-department-chemistry

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  32. Andrew Lyon to Chapman University (admin): http://blogs.chapman.edu/press-room/2014/01/23/chapman-university-announces-dr-andrew-lyon-as-new-dean-for-schmid-college-of-science-and-technology/

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  33. Bill:
    http://www.kofo.mpg.de/en/research/homogeneous-catalysis-/homogeneous-catalysis-and-reaction-design

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  34. Feifei Li (Que grad student, BNL postdoc) to New Mexico State; Tom Teets (Nocera grad student, Bercaw postdoc) to U Houston, and Keith Keitz (Grubbs grad student, Long postdoc) to UT-Austin ChemE (not on web yet).

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  35. Severin Schebelli was hired at UVermont (Spelling could be super incorrect)

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    1. Severin Schneebeli (http://www.uvm.edu/~chem/people/?Page=faculty.html)

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  36. Keith Reber to Towson

    http://www.towson.edu/fcsm/faculty/council_minutes/March%2014_2014.pdf

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  37. Phillips (Yale) to Broad. Kallie Willets (UT-Austin) to Temple.

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    1. Hmmm....the Phillips rumor keeps coming up. Can't wait to see what the Broad says.

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    2. can confirm phillips move

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    3. Want to email me at seearroh_AT_gmail? I'd like to see an email, poster, etc.
      Confidentiality guaranteed.

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    4. schreiber at ACS said phillips now at broad

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  38. New hire: Ronald Grimm to WPI
    https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=646215768785057&id=142614755811830

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  39. Clayden from Manchester to Bristol (Aug 2015) http://www.bristol.ac.uk/chemistry/news/2014/223.html

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  40. "Dan Chapman (GA Inst. Tech to Chapman, admin)"

    I think this should say

    "Andrew Lyon (GA Inst. Tech to Chapman, admin)"

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  41. Correct spelling is Carsten Milsmann.

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  42. Scripps to USC

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  43. Alice Ting to Genentech?

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    1. This one is odd... Any confirmation

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    2. Why does she move to Genentech? It does not make any sense.

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  44. New Hire: Julio D'arcy to Washington University in St. Louis

    http://odge.mit.edu/2014/04/julio-darcy/

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  45. William Kittleman: Birmingham-Southern College to Millersville University

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  46. Wei-Tsung Lee (Inorganic) will start at Loyola Chicago this fall. Indiana postdoc (J. Smith) and an Iowa (Uwe Rohde) PhD.

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  47. Marcus Lay from UGA to Cooper Union School of Enigineering

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  48. Dionicio Siegel (UT-Austin) will officially start at UCSD in September

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    1. He's on the web at UCSD now. Apparently appointment is Pharmacy Dept.
      http://pharmacy.ucsd.edu/faculty/bios/siegel.shtml

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  49. Graham Griffin starting at DePaul University. http://csh.depaul.edu/departments/chemistry/faculty-and-staff/Pages/griffin-graham.aspx

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  50. Ku-Lung (Ken) Hsu at UVa Chemistry
    http://chem.virginia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/ku-lung-ken-hsu/

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  51. Sophie Rousseaux new hire at Toronto.
    http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/ppl/faculty_profile.php?id=213

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  52. Matthew Sheldon new hire at TAMU
    http://www.chem.tamu.edu/faculty/faculty_detail.php?ID=9011

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  53. Chad Risko new hire at Kentucky
    https://chem.as.uky.edu/users/cmri235

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  54. schreiber at ACS said phillips now at broad

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  55. Confirmation of Marcus Lay to Cooper Union
    http://cooper.edu/engineering/people/marcus-lay

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  56. Confirmation of Kara Stowers to BYU
    http://www.chem.byu.edu/faculty/kara-stowers/

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  57. Confirmation of Ryan Baxter and Ben Stokes to UC Merced
    http://www.ucmerced.edu/faculty/directory/ryan-baxter

    http://www.benjstokes.com/

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  58. Missed this one: Wei Xiong at UCSD (Chemistry Dept.) http://ultrafast.ucsd.edu/index.html

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  59. Igor Larossa to Manchester from Queen Mary's https://twitter.com/LarrosaGroup/status/495259216048041984

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  60. Texas A&M Chemistry: Sarbajit Banerjee, Michael Nippe and Matt Sheldon

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  61. I heard that Sigman might be considering moving to Irvine (or possibly MIT)...this is by no means definite

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    1. He is from California near LA. It won't be surprised if he moves to Irvine. He is good and will be a good addition to Irvine which has already had a strong organic division.

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  62. Mark Chen to Lehigh (http://chemistry.cas2.lehigh.edu/news/mark-chen)

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  63. Timothy Bertram from UCSD to Wisconsin
    http://www.chem.wisc.edu/users/tbertram

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  64. Robert Phipps, University of Cambridge
    http://www-phipps.ch.cam.ac.uk/index.html

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  65. Joel Yuen-Zhou to start at UCSD in July 2015 (https://sites.google.com/site/joelyuenzhou/)

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  66. Word on the street is that Princeton is rushing Fiedler's tenure process to keep her from getting poached

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    1. sounds like relocation to Germany (Max Planck) in June

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  67. Kyle C. Bantz (Virginia Military Institute)

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  68. Katherine M. Mullaugh (College of Charleston)

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  69. Wes Bernskoetter leaving Brown University for University of Missouri.

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    1. Did he get tenure at Brown? or is this the boot and run?

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    2. Poached / Running away. No Boot.

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    3. looks like he's from around there...might be family/lifestyle-driven

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  70. Ear to the GroundJanuary 14, 2015 4:03 PM

    They say Princeton is looking to swing a senior hire this year in catalysis; looking at last year's lecture schedule suggests some intriguing possibilities

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  71. Notable non-poach: Sarpong to Chicago

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  72. Time for a 2015-2016 List.
    New Hire to Southern Methodist University Chemistry Dept. Dr. Isaac Garcia-Bosch

    http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Departments/Chemistry/News/ProfIsaacGarciaBoschjoinsdept

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  73. New Hires at University of Buffalo

    "The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that three new faculty will be joining us. Dr. David Lacy (Inorganic), Dr. Steven Ray (Analytical), and Dr. Alexey Akimov (Physical) will join us in August, 2015."

    http://www.chemistry.buffalo.edu/

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  74. Prof. E. Johan Foster from U. Fribourg to V-Tech

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  75. Stacey Brenner-Moyer moved from Brooklyn College to Rutgers.

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  76. Keary Engle hired at Scripps: http://englelab.com/.

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  77. Abe Nitzan moving to Penn.

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  78. David Powers hired by Texas A&M https://www.chem.tamu.edu/news/powers.php

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  79. Jason Hein (UC Merced to UBC)

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