Mildly concerned that Vecna has arrived on campus... #strangerthings

We mourn the passing of Prof. J. Kent Blasie (1943-2025). Kent spent decades @sas.upenn.edu, ultimately being named the Walter H. & Leonore C. Annenberg Professorship in the Natural Sciences. Kent also served as Chemistry Department Chair from 1983 to 1986. Here is a pic from happier times.

Join us for a virtual info session on our PhD program. Meet our Graduate Chair Prof. James Petersson and learn how you can pursue your PhD in chemistry at @sas.upenn.edu in sunny Philadelphia! Register here: bit.ly/46otRt5

Congratulations to Joe! 🎉🙌

The Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology (VLEST) has achieved the U.S. Green Building Council’s highest standard, a rare distinction and just the second Penn building to do so. @upenn.edu @vagelosenergy.bsky.social @pennchemistry.bsky.social

Another summer BBQ in the books! 2025 Kozlowski Lab bocce tournament champions to be announced. @pennchemistry.bsky.social

At New Student Orientation, incoming first-years from the Class of 2029 met faculty and new friends as they prepared for their first semester at Penn (photos). https://bit.ly/4n49hVx @upenn.edu @pennsasdean.bsky.social

Congratulations to our inaugural class of Vagelos Fellows - Abbi, Jolaine, Zixun, & Miranda! These prestigious fellowships are the first of twenty planned awards, and are funded by an extraordinary gift by Roy & Diana Vagelos to improve graduate education at @upenn.edu and @sas.upenn.edu. 🎉 👏

Welcome back, Quakers! 🔴🔵

Excited to share our new @pubs.acs.org paper! We engineered cells with ~10% photolipids in the ER membrane. This enabled optical control of membrane viscosity to study its impact on ER→Golgi protein transport. @dirktrauner.bsky.social @noemijimenezrojo.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Thank you to @pennchemistry.bsky.social for inviting our team to welcome researchers to the Fall term with our annual safety meeting. Covering topics identified through conversations with the department, we also discussed updated regulations and events. We wish everyone a safe and successful term!

Hello BlueSky! I’m Mark Trodden, new Dean of Penn’s School of Arts & Sciences. I joined Penn in 2009 as a particle physicist and later served as Associate Dean for Natural Sciences for two years. Looking forward to sharing student & faculty highlights, initiatives, and events with you all!

It's time for our quarterly Lab Safety FAQs that can be found here: ehrs.upenn.edu/health-safet... They feature tips for waste disposal, chemical inventory questions, sonicator/homogenizer advice, and advice for labs that are closing or moving. Check it out!

It's a privilege to have Marisa Kozlowski from @pennchemistry.bsky.social with us today at NUS Chemistry in Singapore. Photo credit: Yixin Lu. #organicchemistry #OrgLett

2025 lab trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico! @pennchemistry.bsky.social

Join @BB_UPenn, @penncbio.bsky.social, @PennCDB, @CAMBUpenn, @UPennEEJust, @duboiscircle, @RTAatPennMed on Wednesday, 6/18 at 1pm for the 3rd annual #Juneteenth seminar ft'ing keynote speaker Dr. Squire Booker. Learn more➡️ tinyurl.com/kpnetx9f

We are thrilled that the next Associate Dean of Natural Sciences in the School of Arts & Sciences is our own Prof. Marisa Kozlowski! We look forward to working with Marisa, and our new Dean Mark Trodden, to advance the mission of the School together. @kozlowskigroup.bsky.social @sas.upenn.edu

Congratulations to Joe Francisco for being named to receive the 2025 Linus Pauling Medal Award! @sas.upenn.edu acspss.org/pauling-meda...

Congratulations to Mark Trodden on being named our next Dean. Mark has been an excellent Associate Dean and we look forward to seeing where his vision takes our School next. A+!

Mark Trodden has been named Dean of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences and Thomas S. Gates Jr. Professor. A distinguished physicist and accomplished academic leader, Trodden will assume the role on June 1.

🧪 Hiring Alert--At last some good news!: 9 top Biotech & Pharma companies are hiring in Massachusetts, including Moderna, Takeda, Intellia, & more. Roles range from scientists to directors—remote too! Check out the latest openings in the Genetown hub. 🧬🔬 #LifeSciences #Jobs #Hiring #STEM.

Register now for the National Organic Symposium (NOS). Registration is open until June 18, however, there is a price increase after May 23. Join us and hear from our amazing speakers from June 22 - 26 at RPI in Troy, NY. zurl.co/9jAtl

Did you miss the first week of #YoungScientistNetworking? Why? It was fantastic. Search the tag for great stories of becoming a scientist by @chemscrapes.bsky.social @pwk2024.bsky.social @manhattanscientist.bsky.social and @marycanady.bsky.social

Congrats to Marlyse Baptista (Linguistics), M. Susan Lindee (History and Sociology of Science), and Christopher B. Murray (Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering) on being elected 2024 AAAS Fellows. Read the full announcement: bit.ly/4lkqWIP @aaas.org @pennchemistry.bsky.social

Congratulations to Vagelos Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Kunyu Wang @kunyuwang.bsky.social with @pennchemistry.bsky.social and @pennmatsci.bsky.social on his selection as a 2025 RCSA Fellow by @rescorp.org

Spring is (finally) here...

Moving into our new lab spaces on the 4th floor of the Vagelos Laboratories! @pennchemistry.bsky.social

Congratulations to former PhD student from the group, Dr. Houng Kang, on been promoted to Associate Professor at Chungbuk National University! @pennchemistry.bsky.social

The group came together and brought their inside jokes to the whiteboard. Welcome to the first draft of MCK world! @pennchemistry.bsky.social

A fantastic vacuum pump safety workshop yesterday from our partners at Chemtech with @pennchemistry.bsky.social! Games, prizes, and vacuum pumps galore! All this vacuum pump talk has us asking, has your lab replaced their oil mist filters recently?

Kritika Jha, a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry, is closing the gap for companies aiming for greener packaging through her venture, AekoVera. @pennchemistry.bsky.social

In celebration of #WomensHistoryMonth, we highlight a 2020 feature on Prof. Madeleine Joullié, the first female organic chemist to secure a tenure-track position at a major American university, who continues to to impact her field, institution, and students' lives. @pennchemistry.bsky.social

Check out some of our lab's new work! @pennchemistry.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Huge loss for the chemistry community. Absolutely loved my time at UPenn. I wouldn’t be where I am today if it wasn’t for Amos’ mentorship and the friends I made in the group

We lost a towering figure in synthesis. It was a huge honor to serve as Amos’ colleague.

He hired me to work for him the summer before classes started. I will always be grateful for that.

Lost a great scientist and a friend. I used to look forward to meeting him at ACS Editors' meeting. We will miss him dearly. RIP

Saddened to hear the news. He was one of the “greats” in organic chemistry and trained generations of chemists. R.I.P. Prof. Amos Smith

Organic synthesis in the Smith Group: a personal selection of a dozen lessons learned at the University of Pennsylvania, by Kevin P C Minbiole www.nature.com/articles/ja2...

We are deeply saddened to share that our friend and colleague Professor Amos B. Smith III has passed away. Amos joined Penn in 1973 and was a mainstay in our organic chemistry division. He recently celebrated 50 years of service to @upenn.edu @pennsas.bsky.social.

Thanks to everyone who came out for our Lunar New Year party this year! 🎉🐍

In December, we celebrated the opening of the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology. The now home to @vagelosenergy.bsky.social marks the start of a new chapter in Penn’s study of energy science and the fight against climate change. https://buff.ly/3PUSDJz @pennchemistry.bsky.social

#chemjobs #Merckchemistry is hiring - 2 open positions at the associate level. Located at our West Point, PA site close to Philadelphia - with a great team that I just joined not so long ago! Links for info: R330195 bit.ly/40uICc9 R330192 bit.ly/42gC7v2 Please apply if interested #chemsky

Check out our paper on veratramine and isosteroidal alkaloids, now published in JACS. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Check out our recent editorial lead by Guillermo Correa Otero (G3) and Sarah Zhang (Undergrad) in OrgLett! @pennchemistry.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

New year but more of the same great seminars from @poccchem.bsky.social Next week's installment is JnJ's very own Dr. Emma Parmee for our Women in Chemistry lecture. Join us on Thurs 1/23 at 6:30 PM for food/drinks with the talk kicking off at 7:30 at @pennchemistry.bsky.social !!!

1/14 Our latest study just out on BioRxiv [https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.19.629450] has unusual personal significance for me. It connects two apparently unrelated diseases – (pre)eclampsia and glioblastoma – that have both impacted my family.

It was our annual cookie baking contest last night. Congratulations to the winners. Paul Hollywood approves (probably).