On May 9th, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced that Professor Adam Cohen will become an HHMI Investigator as of September 2013. As reported on the HHMI website, "Cohen foresees using the voltage sensor protein to scrutinize networks of neurons as an animal learns, for instance, or to uncover how the developing brain gains the ability to transmit electrical signals." Congratulations, Adam!

With graduate student Elisabeth Hennessy, Prof. Ted Betley has devised a new iron-dipyrrinato catalyst for converting unreactive C-H bonds in organic azides to reactive C-H bonds in cyclic amines as documented in Science and Chemistry and Engineering News.