Joseph 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 […]
Read MoreRichard D. Smith completed his doctorate degree under Jean Futrell in 1975. He is the Battelle Fellow and Chief Scientist within the Biological Sciences Division of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. His research interests span the development of advanced analytical methods and instrumentation, with particular emphasis on high-resolution separations and mass spectrometry and their applications […]
Read MoreMarilyn Alder Marquis received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Utah, went to Berkeley for a month for graduate school, and then returned to Utah to study with Henry Eyring. Marilyn worked on dynamic mechanical testing of polyamides and the relationship between their rheological response and their chemical structure. While a graduate […]
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