The University of Utah Department of Chemistry was joined by Dr. Dipa Kalyani, Principal Scientist at Merck, and Michael West, Postdoctoral Fellow at Merck, for an insightful seminar about the impact of academic-industry collaborations for pharmaceutically relevant synthetic innovations. Afterwards, during our monthly Curie Club coffee chat, our students had the opportunity to ask them […]
Read MoreIt’s been seven years since the Kecklings gathered together, and as a close-knit group, a reunion was long overdue. “Boss Keck” and his “Kecklings” spent many formative years together and learned invaluable fundamentals about research and living a good life in general as they worked together to elevate and move chemistry forward in their own […]
Read MoreRik R. Tykwinskiearned his PhD from the University of Utah with Peter Stang in 1994. He worked with Professor François Diederich as a PDF at ETH-Zürich and then joined the faculty at the University of Alberta in 1997. In 2009 he accepted a position as Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in […]
Read More1991 recipient: Merritt B. Andrus, Professor of Chemistry, Brigham Young University The last person to think Andrus would end up in academia was Andrus. As a graduate student, he had intentions to head for an industry position, but his postdoc advisor suggested that he also apply for academic positions. Inspired by his graduate advisor, Gary […]
Read MoreOur students left for spring break early in March, just as all of us began to sense that our world was about to change as we’d never experienced before. There was and is no road map for this unprecedented situation. For the faculty and staff, the week of spring break was suddenly filled with meetings […]
Read MoreThe Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship (Sigal Fellowship) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is a two-year postdoctoral fellowship awarded every two years to a Ph.D. candidate who will pursue research at the chemistry and biology interface. Candidates are nominated by chairs of Ph.D.-granting Chemistry Departments in the United States. Individuals are not able to […]
Read MoreIn the latter half of the year 2000, Professor Peter B. Armentrout was appointed University of Utah Department Chair of Chemistry. He earned a B.S. degree in 1975 at Case Western Reserve and his PhD. Degree in 1980 at CalTech. Peter has also done postdoctoral research at Bell Labs and had been an assistant professor […]
Read MoreOn September 26, 2024, the Department of Chemistry held the 2024 Dale and Susan Poulter Lectureship in Biological Chemistry. Dale and Susan Poulter funded the Bioorganic Chemistry Teaching Laboratory and established endowments for the Dale and Susan Poulter Chair in Biological Chemistry, and the Dale and Susan Poulter Lectureship in Biological Chemistry to bring outstanding […]
Read MoreOn September 10, 2024, the University of Utah Department of Chemistry hosted the 2024 Novartis Seminar speakers Sarah Reisman, Bren Professor of Chemistry, Norman Davidson Leadership Chair, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineeringfrom Caltech, and Zhihong Huang, Associate Director at Novartis. Distinguished Professor Matthew Sigman welcomed and introduced the speakers. Matthew Sigman welcoming Sarah Reisman […]
Read MorePrevious to the summer of 2020, the University of Utah Department of Chemistry has offered a variety of chemistry enrichment courses designed for high school students from across Utah for more than 30 years. As thousands of students would agree, these summer enrichment courses continued to be extremely rewarding and successful until COVID hit. Alas […]
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