A recent picture of Al surrounded by his mobiles and books. He is buried under a lot of paper work since taking over as an “Associate Editor” for The Journal of Organic Chemistry in September 2002.

Past presidents and organizers of ISHC meetings. This images taken in July 1999 at the 17th Annual ISHC Congress in Vienna. Al (back row-middle) received The 1999 Award for Heterocyclic Chemistry. The 1999 Katritzky Junior Award in Heterocyclic Chemistry went to Timothy Gallagher (front row-white shirt and tie).

Recent gathering of organic faculty members at Padwa home to celebrate the appointments of Frank McDonald and Debbie Mohler.
Front row: Debbie Mohler, Lanny Liebeskind, Dennis Liotta, Al Padwa, Fred Menger.
Back row: Frank McDonald, David Goldsmith, Jim Snyder, and Craig Hill.

View of the campus from the 6th floor of Chemistry

The Cherry L. Emerson Hall addition to the Chemistry Building is now completed. In summer 2002 the old part of the Chemistry building also underwent renovations. We now have new windows throughout and the transformation is quite impressive.

The group enjoying a weekend at the Padwa Family Lake House – October 2006