The Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah established the Distinguished Chemistry Alumni Awards in 2011 to recognize and honor our most prominent and successful alumni. We celebrated four of our outstanding alumni on September 30, 2024 in the Department of Chemistry. The awardees held seminars and visited faculty and students in the department. […]
Read MoreAwardees at the STEM Safety Day 2024 On September 6, 2024, the University of Utah held the STEM Safety Day, which brings faculty, staff, and experts together for laboratory, classroom, and workplace safety training and updates. This multi-campus partner event is hosted by the College of Science, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, John and Marcia […]
Read MoreAccording to the Reaction Mechanisms Conference website, “The RMC is an historically important and vibrant meeting, first held in 1946, that concentrates on the recent advances in broadly defined mechanistic chemistry. The scope of discussions includes organic, organometallic, inorganic, materials, and biological research with significant mechanistic implications and insights on the connections between structure and […]
Read MoreQilei Zhu recieves the ORAU Ralph E Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award! Some background on the award: Our commitment to enriching the research skills and professional growth of young faculty members at ORAU member institutions is embodied in the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards Program. These competitive research awards provide seed money for […]
Read MoreConnor Bischak won the PNWAVS Emerging Leader Award at the Surface Analysis and Annual PNWAVS Symposium! According to PNWAVS: “The 2024 Annual Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis (Surface Analysis ‘24) was held jointly with the 35th Annual Symposium of the Pacific Northwest Chapter (PNWAVS) of AVS, The Science and Technology Society in Discovery Hall at […]
Read MorePNAS recently published a profile on our very own Professor, Valeria Molinero. In this profile PNAS not only discusses Molinero’s research but how she came to love chemistry: “Growing up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Valeria Molinero nursed an early love of learning and discovery, thanks to her parents. ‘When I encountered the natural sciences in […]
Read More“Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, and the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation have made awards to seven multidisciplinary teams of early career researchers in the first year of Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories, a three-year initiative that aims to accelerate innovation and broaden access within the chemical enterprise through advances in automated instrumentation and artificial intelligence.” […]
Read MoreThe Barry Goldwater Scholarship is a prestigious award given to undergraduate sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue research careers. Goldwater Scholars often go on to hold distinguished research and leadership positions across many disciplines. For the 2024-2025 academic year, 438 scholarships were awarded to college students across the country. At the University of Utah, two […]
Read MoreUniversity of Utah Health professors Amy Barrios and H. Joseph Yost have been elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a lifetime honor that celebrates their excellence in research and commitment to mentoring the next generation of scientists. Yost and Barrios join a distinguished cadre of AAAS Fellows at the U, including […]
Read More“This year university students across the state of Utah were invited to submit their most innovative, creative, and bold ideas for tackling climate change. Applicants were encouraged to detail how their ideas could be rapidly scaled and have an innovative impact for mitigating climate change, along with feasibility and potential for co-benefits to people and/or […]
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