Professor Ryan Steele has been awarded the 2017 PCCP Emerging Investigator Lectureship from the Ownership Societies and Editorial Board of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP). The lectureship was created to recognize and support an emerging scientist working in physical chemistry, chemical physics or biophysical chemistry who is making an outstanding contribution to their field and is […]
Read MoreProfessor Ryan Steele has been awarded the 2017-18 College of Science Award for Fostering Undergraduate Research Excellence. The award is in recognition of Professor Steele’s outstanding contributions to undergraduate research. Congratulations!
Read MoreSung Wan Kim received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry with Professor Henry Eyring in 1969. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry and a Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering at the U. He was Director of the Center for Controlled Chemical Delivery from 1985-2006. Dr. Kim is a pioneer in drug delivery […]
Read MoreDr. Sung Wan Kim, PhD ’69 Dr. Jaqueline L. Kiplinger, PhD ’96 Dr. Milton L. Lee, BA ’71 Dr. James M. Sugihara, PhD ’47 On Monday, April 18th, the Department of Chemistry honored four former students as our 2016 Distinguished Alumni. ” Sung Wan Kim received his PhD in Physical Chemistry with Professor Henry Eyring […]
Read MoreJudy Zhu (HBS ’15) is first author on the current cover article of The Journal of Organic Chemistry. The paper is based on her undergraduate honors thesis, covering the pH dependency of 5-guanidinohydantoin, important in research around DNA damage and resulting diseases. Judy is currently spending a gap year in Cindy Burrows‘ lab, then plans […]
Read MoreProfessor Joseph A. Gardella, Jr. received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh and completed postdoctoral research in Physical Chemistry at the University of Utah, working with Ted Eyring in 1982. He then joined the faculty at University at Buffalo, State University of New York, where he is now a Distinguished Professor […]
Read MoreJoseph Gardella, Postdoc ’82 Diane Parry, PhD ’89 Don Reese, BS ’73 (MD ’77) Kirk Ririe, BS ’05 On Monday, April 20th, the Department of Chemistry honored four former students as our 2015 Distinguished Alumni. Professor Joseph A. Gardella, Jr. received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh and completed postdoctoral research […]
Read MoreCynthia Burrows, Wesley Sundquist, and Polly Wiessner with the statue of Albert Einstein on the National Mall after their induction ceremony. University of Utah chemist Cynthia Burrows, biochemist Wesley Sundquist and anthropologist Polly Wiessner were inducted into the 2014 class of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences on April 25, 2015 at the 152nd Annual […]
Read MoreProfessor David Clemmer received his Ph.D. at the University of Utah in 1992. He spent a year in Japan as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow at the Himeji Institute of Technology and two years as a post-doctoral researcher at Northwestern University. He joined the Chemistry faculty at Indiana University in 1995. […]
Read MoreThe Department of Chemistry congratulates all of our new alumni! Graduation by the Numbers 57 Undergraduate Chemistry Majors 4 Honors Bachelors Degrees Awarded 127 Undergraduate Chemistry Minors 15 Masters Degrees Awarded 27 Ph.D.s Awarded in the 2013 calendar year Watch the College of Science Convocation Ceremony. The ceremony was held at the […]
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