Sylvia T. Ceyer is a professor of chemistry at MIT. She currently holds the John C. Sheehan Chair in Chemistry at MIT. Until 2006 she held the chemistry chair of the National Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Ceyer graduated from Hope College in 1974 with an A.B. in chemistry. In 1979, she was awarded a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (her advisors were Y. T. Lee and Gabor Somorjai). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Na...
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Sylvia T. Ceyer is a professor of chemistry at MIT. She currently holds the John C. Sheehan Chair in Chemistry at MIT. Until 2006 she held the chemistry chair of the National Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Ceyer graduated from Hope College in 1974 with an A.B. in chemistry. In 1979, she was awarded a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (her advisors were Y. T. Lee and Gabor Somorjai). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) from 1979 to 1981.
Prof. Ceyer joined the MIT faculty in 1981. In 1987, she became tenured.
In 2004, MIT was conducting a search for a new president, and she was appointed to the Faculty Advisory Committee to the MIT Corporation. Ultimately, the Corporation chose Susan Hockfield, a neurobiologist from Yale University to be MIT's next president.
The following year, she was appointed associate head of MIT's Chemistry Department.
Prof. Ceyer is a physical chemist...
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