President 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 […]
Read MoreJennifer Heemstra, an assistant professor of chemistry, has won a Cottrell Scholar Award of $75,000 – a prize aimed at early career, physical sciences faculty who are committed to excellence in research and undergraduate teaching.“In addition to funding for my research program, I’m very excited that this award provides the opportunity to become a long-term […]
Read MoreA data-intensive approach to mechanistic elucidation applied to chiral anion catalysis By Anat Milo, Andrew J. Neel, F. Dean Toste, Matthew S. Sigman ABSTRACT: Knowledge of chemical reaction mechanisms can facilitate catalyst optimization, but extracting that knowledge from a complex system is often challenging. Here, we present a data-intensive method for deriving and then predictively […]
Read MoreTwo of Five honorees are Department of Chemistry Alumni Honorees span sciences in chemistry, physics, astrophysics Christopher L. Fryer, Jaqueline L. Kiplinger, Herbert O. Funsten, John C. Gordon, and David S. Moore. LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Dec. 15, 2014—The Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows list expands by five this week as a new group of high […]
Read MoreUniversity of Utah alumna and Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Jaqueline L. Kiplinger has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry, sponsored by the F. Albert Cotton Endowment Fund. Kiplinger earned her doctorate in organometallic fluorocarbon chemistry from the University of Utah with Professor Tom Richmond […]
Read MoreFormer University of Utah Chemistry faculty member John Gladysz and Janet Bluemel have made provisions in their estate plan for a future endowed chair in the Department. John and Janet, professors at Texas A&M University and husband and wife, are world leaders in the fields of inorganic and organometallic chemistry. “Chemistry has always been an […]
Read MoreCongratulations to Peter Stang for being named as the 2013 recipient of the Priestley Medal, the highest honor given by the American Chemical Society. The medal is a lifetime achievement award for chemists and “recognizes Stang’s cutting-edge research that has had far-reaching implications for many areas of science…”
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