Natalie Barone University of Akron (Advisor: C. Ziegler)

Saabah Bux University of California-Los Angeles (Advisor: R. Kaner)

Daniela Buccella Columbia University (Advisor: G. Parkin)

Matt Beekman University of South Florida (Advisor: G. S. Nolas)

Forest Bohrer University of California-San Diego (Advisor: W. Trogler)

Elisa Calimano University of California-Berkeley (Advisor: T. Tilley)

Sam Fleischman University of California-Santa Barbara ( Advisor: S. Scott)

vittal Babu Gudimetla Case Western Reserve University (Advisor: J. Protasiewicz)

Juergen Koller University of Florida (Advisor: L. McElwee-White)

Kerstin Kunz Institut fur Anorganische Chemie (Advisor: M. Wagner)

Kido Nwe University of Buffalo, State University of New York (Advisor:J. Morrow)

Kevin A. Miller University of California-Irvine (Advisor: W. Evans)

Matthew J. Morgan University of Georgia (Advisor: C. Kutal)

David K. Newsham Pennsylvania State University (Advisor: A. Sen)

Adam C. Tomasik University of Wisconsin, Madison (Advisor: R. West)

Kothanda Rama Pichaandi Tulane University (Advisor: M. Fink)

Pamela Soh University of Nevada (Advisor: J. Shearer)

Santiago Toledo University of Washington (Advisor: J. Kovacs)

Lei Yang University of Oklahoma (Advisor: R. Houser)

Yuming Xiao University of California-Davis (Advisor: S. Cramer)

Caleb Bell III Stanford University (Advisor: E. Solomon)

Jennifer Dexheimer Purdue University (Advisor: M. Abu-Omar)

Andrew Dunbar University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Advisor: G. Girolami)

Jessica Fautch Purdue University (Advisor: J. Wilker)

Wei He Carnegie Mellon University (Advisor: C. Achim)

Zachariah Heiden University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Advisor: T. Rauchfuss)

Cristina Hofmann Rice University ( Advisor: K. Whitmire)

Tillmann Koepke Indiana University (Advisor: J. M. Zaleski)

Raymond Lansing University of Mexico (Advisor: R. Kemp)

Shengqian Ma Miami University (Advisor: H. Zhou)

Samuel Mugavero University of Southern Caolina (Advisor: H. Loye)

Ronnie Muvirimi University of Cinncinati (Advisor: W. Connick)

Paul Oldenburg University Minnesota (Advisor: L. Q. Krisanu)

Jacob Schneider University of Rochester (Advisor: R. Eisenberg)

Nathan Silvernail University of Notre Dame (Advisor: W. R. Scheidt)

Bennett Streit University of Notre Dame (Advisor: J. DuBois)

Douglas Swartz Michigan State Univeristy (Advisor: A. Odom)

Adam Wu University of Washington (Advisor: J. Mayer)

Jian Yang University of North Carolina (Advisor: M. Brookhart)

Guoqing Zhang University of Virginia (Advisor: C. Fraser)

The first DIC Young Investigator Symposium awardees have been named. The Division of Inorganic Chemistry has established a new symposium that will feature young inorganic chemists. This event is meant to honor some of our talented young investigators, and provide a high-profile forum for these members to describe their research results. The first symposium will be held on Sunday afternoon of the Fall 2005 ACS meeting in Washington, D.C. There will be a total of 8 speakers (two from each DIC subdivision) and each will give a 30-minute presentation. The DIC will provide a $500 honorarium for each speaker and a plaque to commemorate their participation in the event.

The awardees are:

Theodore Betley - Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (Student with Jonas Peters)

Dorothea Fiedler -Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley (Student with Bob Bergman and Ken Raymond)

Tamara D. Hamilton - Department of Chemistry, University of Iowa (Student with Len MacGillivray)

Timothy Jackson - Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota (Was student with Tom Brunold, Now a postdoc at Minnesota)

Matt Law - Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley (Student with Peidong Yang)

Robin T. Macaluso - Argonne National Laboratory, (Was student with Julia Chan, now a postdoc at ANL)

Elizabeth Nolan - Department of Chemistry, MIT (Student with Stephen Lippard)

Walter Paxton - Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University (Student with Ayusman Sen)