August 16, 2007. J. Fraser Stoddart, a pioneer in the fields of nanoscience and organic chemistry, will join the Northwestern University faculty as Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry, the University announced today (Aug. 16). Stoddart, Fred Kavli Chair in Nanosystems Sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles and director of the California NanoSystems Institute, is the inventor of a field of chemistry that enables the construction of molecular switches and machines on the nanoscale level. Stoddart's group initially will have offices and laboratories in the Technological Institute but eventually will move into Richard and Barbara Silverman Hall for Molecular Therapeutics and Diagnostics (home ) and Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Hall (Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly). Full story