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 […]
Read MoreVahe Bandarian, Distinuished Chemistry Professor, and former graduate student Karsten Eastman worked together pursuing patenting on a new invention that resulted from their research. An article by the University of Utah Technology Licensing Office stated: “Bandarian, a chemistry professor, researches enzymes whose function is unknown but give the cell some sort of advantage. ‘We basically pick […]
Read MoreMatthew 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, […]
Read MoreGina Frey, Professor of Chemistry, Ron and Eileen Ragsdale Endowed Chair in Chemical Education, noted “Our studies in general chemistry 1 (GC1) have shown that social belonging predicts course performance for all students and belonging differs across gender. In our current study, for students whose major required both General Chemistry 1 and 2 (GC2), GC1 […]
Read MoreUniversity of Utah chemist Jessica Swanson has retooled her lab to help develop a process that would harness methane-eating bacteria, known as methanotrophs, which naturally break down methane into carbon dioxide and organic compounds. She aims to discover ways to enable methanotrophs to effectively pull methane from the air at low concentrations in next-generation bioreactors. The Swanson lab has […]
Read MoreNew research from the University of Utah, with Germany’s Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research and Idaho’s Boise State University, is shedding fresh light on the role of biological agents—produced by fungi of all things—in ice formation. Valeria Molinero, a theoretical chemist with the University of Utah’s College of Science, is at the forefront of […]
Read MoreProfessor 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 […]
Read MorePhoto Credit: Todd Anderson In a recently published paper in Nature Chemistry, In a recently published paper in Nature Chemistry, Kefu Wang and Ming Lee Tang of our department described a composite material consisting of extremely small silicon nanoparticles and an organic component capable of transforming lower-energy light into higher-energy light. Read here […]
Read MoreOn 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 […]
Read MoreProfessor Whittaker-Brooks participated in the Faculty Fellowship Program in Israel from May 27 – June 9. Prof. Whittaker-Brooks traveled throughout Israel, meeting Israeli professors from her respective discipline and with the same or similar research interests – all with the goal of developing collaborations, research projects, co-authoring articles, and establishing exchange programs between faculty and […]
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