by Lee Siegel University of Utah chemist Peter J. Stang shook hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping after Stang and six other foreign scientists were honored with China’s 2015 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award. “I said ‘thank you’ to him in Chinese and he smiled,” says Stang, recalling the Jan. 8 award ceremony in […]
Read MoreDistinguished Professor Joel Harris was awarded the 2015 Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology at an awards dinner at Rio Tinto Stadium on January 13, 2016. Four faculty members from the U are among 11 winners of the 2015 Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology. The other U honorees are Rich Brown, dean of the […]
Read MoreDistinguished Professor Robert W. Parry was a giant in our profession. In his 60-year career, Bob taught thousands of undergrads and mentored over 60 Ph.D. students and postdocs. Together with Henry Eyring and Cheves Walling, Bob played a key role in the growth and development of chemistry at Utah. To celebrate Bob’s life and career, […]
Read MoreAs if it wasn’t enough to make a trip to the White House and collect a National Medal of Science from the president, U organic chemist Peter Stang and his wife just spent four all-expense-paid days in Beijing attending a celebration in his honor. The Chinese Academy of Sciences recently awarded Stang the 2015 China’s […]
Read MorePlease join the Department of Chemistry in congratulating Dean and Distinguished Professor Henry White, the first winner of the Allen J. Bard Award in Electrochemistry! This award honors Dr. White for pioneering innovations furthering scientific knowledge and understanding of nanometer scale electrochemistry, micron-scale magnetohydrodynamic flow, ion transport across membranes, and electroanalytical applications of glass nanopore […]
Read MorePictured is schematic representation of an ultrafiltration membrane self-assembled from polymer brush nanoparticles. This and other types of functional membranes are described in an article published by the Zharov group and featured on the cover of ChemComm. The article describes the recently developed approach to the preparation of membrane materials by self-assembly of inorganic, polymeric […]
Read MorePresident David W. Pershing and Zhang Deqing, director of ICCAS On March 26, 2015, Prof. David W. Pershing, president of the University of Utah, Prof. Henry S. White, dean of the College of Science, Prof. Cynthia Burrows, chair of the Department of Chemistry, and Prof. Zhang Deqing, director of the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy […]
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 MoreThree students from the Department of Chemistry have won 2015 pre-doctoral fellowships from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships. Alexandra Kent, graduating senior, is a recipient of an NSF pre-doctoral award. Alexandra is presently doing research with Jen Heemstra and will head to UC-Irvine for […]
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