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Hamilton College's highest awards for teaching were presented on May 7 to three faculty members. Douglas Weldon, the Stone Professor of Psychology and director of the Neuroscience Program, was awarded the Samuel & Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching; Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole Snyder received the Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award; and Associate Professor of Africana Studies Angel David Nieves was honored with the John R. Hatch Excellence in Teaching Award.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole L. Snyder, was invited to present a poster titled "The Synthesis of Carbohydrate-Porphyrin Conjugates as Potential Asymmetric Catalysts" at the 2009 Gordon Conference on Carbohydrates held June 14-19 at the Tilton School in Tilton, N.H.

Nicole L. Snyder, assistant professor of chemistry, and her collaborators at the University of South Florida published a paper titled "Asymmetric Co(II)-Catalyzed Cyclopropanation with Succinimidyl Diazoacetate: General Synthesis of Chiral Cyclopropyl Carboxamides" in the most recent edition of Organic Letters (Org. Lett. 2009, 11 (11), 2273–2276).

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nicole L. Snyder and her collaborator X. Peter Zhang of the University of Southern Florida received a joint grant from the American Chemical Societies Petroleum Research Foundation to work on a project titled "Bio-Inspired Catalysts." As a part of this grant, Snyder and James Greisler '10 will spend eight weeks this summer preparing a number of carbohydrate analogs that will be coupled to porphyrins in Zhang's lab using a specialized process developed by the Zhang group.