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Jessica Swanson Named 2024 Cottrell Scholar

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The University of Utah’s Jessica Swanson is among 19 outstanding teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy named recipients of Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s 2024 Cottrell Scholar Awards. Each award is $120,000. Recipients are chosen through a rigorous peer-review process of applications from a wide variety of public and private research universities and primarily undergraduate institutions in the […]

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February 9, 2024

Aria Ballance – Recipient of the 2024 Curie Club Outreach Award

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We are proud to annouce that Aria Ballance was the recipient of the 2024 Curie Club Outreach Award! This award will fund ($100-1,000) graduate students’ projects to bring chemistry to the community. As chemistry graduate students, we are passionate about this cool science, but sometimes, we fall short when engaging with the public. Think about […]

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February 7, 2024

Matt Sigman – Outstanding Chemist Award

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Matthew Sigman, Distinguished Professor & Peter J. Christine S. Stang Presidential Endowed Chair of Chemistry with the University of Utah has been awarded the 2023 ACS Utah Outstanding Chemist Award. In 1958, the Salt Lake Section of the ACS established the Utah Award to honor Utah’s chemistry community. The awards recognize outstanding contributions to research, […]

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January 31, 2024

Curie Club Outreach Award

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This award will fund ($100-1,000) graduate students’ projects to bring chemistry to the community. As chemistry graduate students, we are passionate about this cool science, but sometimes, we fall short when engaging with the public. Think about ideas to show people how fun and exciting Chemistry is. This is your chance to make them real, […]

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November 13, 2023

U Chemistry Distinguished Alumni Awards 2023

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U Chemistry Distinguished Alumni Awards 2023 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 October 23 and 24 in the Department of Chemistry. The awardees held seminars and […]

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October 28, 2023

Clista Galecki – Recipient of the 2023 SAS Undergraduate Award in Applied Spectroscopy

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The 2023 SAS Undergraduate Award in Applied Spectroscopy was given to Clista Galecki, a senior undergraduate student working in the Harris Lab.  The award was in recognition of Clista’s outstanding research in developing Raman spectroscopy to characterize antibody-ligand association at supported phospholipid bilayers. It is the highest honor for an undergraduate student awarded by the […]

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October 18, 2023

Vahe Bandarian – 2023 ACS Fellow

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Professor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of Science, Vahe Bandarian, was selected as one of the 2023 ACS fellows. Vahe Bandarian is a biological chemistry Professor and has been at University of Utah since 2015. He graduated with his B.S. at California State University-Los Angeles in 1992, went on to get his Ph.D. at the […]

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August 1, 2023

Michael D. Morse appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor

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On July 1, 2023, Michael D. Morse was appointed to the rank of Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of Utah. Distinguished Research Morse began his independent academic career at Utah in January 1985 and immediately set himself up as the foremost authority in his field by writing a sole-author review article for Chemical Reviews on […]

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July 3, 2023