The work of recent chemistry graduate Uziel Gonzalez (BS ‘24) was featured in the September 24 publication of C & E News feature “Chemistry in Pictures.” Tom Richmond said for the C & E News “While purifying tert-butylmalononitrile, a useful starting material for the synthesis of organic electronic materials, University of Utah chemistry undergraduate Uziel Gonzalez discovered […]
Read MoreThe research efforts of Mina Done, with Cindy Burrows and Max Austin, with Andrew Roberts, the U Chemistry’s Beckman Scholars are highlighted in highlighted in the 2023 Innovation Report from the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, David Eccles School of Business. Special tanks to Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Photo: Max Austin, curtesy of the Lassonde Entrepreneur […]
Read MoreTest Kit Developed by Alumnus Kirk Ririe’s Company BioFire Defense By KRISTEN MOULTON|Reprinted from The Salt Lake Tribune BioFire Defense’s Ebola test kits, used with its FilmArray machine, has been OK’d by the FDA to test patients for the Ebola Zaire virus. BioFire Defense of Salt Lake City says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration […]
Read MoreProfessor Valérie Pierre, who joined the University of Utah Department of Chemistry this past summer, is the Director of the NSF Center for Aqueous Supramolecular Chemistry. The NSF Center for Aqueous Supramolecular Chemistry (CASC) is supported by the Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) Program of the Division of Chemistry. The ability of custom-designed molecules to 1) […]
Read MoreOn September 5, 2024, Professor Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, University of Utah Department of Chemistry discussed nanomaterials at KPCW Cool Science Radio. Listen here Professor’s Luisa Whittaker-Brooks interview: The Whittaker Group aims to address important challenges related to the understanding of the relationships among the composition, structure, electronic structure, and properties of inorganic and organic nanomaterials, as […]
Read MoreIn search of new microscopy tools to observe how cells function @TheU published a research story titled “In search of new microscopy tools to observe how cells function, U chemists discover how key contrast agent works, paving the way to create markers needed for correlative microscopy” on September 4, 2024. The article by Brian […]
Read MoreRoberts group, in collaboration with the Mastren laboratory @MastrenLabUtah, graduate students, Dr. Aidan Bender (Nuclear Engineering, Mastren group) and Dr. Emily Kirkeby @_EmilyKirkeby_ (Chemistry, Roberts group) developed a 213Bi-labeled pyridyl benzofuran for the targeted α-therapy of amyloid-β aggregates. The Roberts team @agr_chemistry worked together with Dr. Tara Mastren (Nuclear Engineering), Dr. Donna Cross (U of U Health, Radiology), and Dr. […]
Read MoreOur former faculty, Robert W. Parry, was recently featured in a Science History Institute article, written by Judith Kaplan and Dennis Sauer. Dr. Sauer completed his postdoctoral studies with Bob Parry at the University of Utah. Distinguished Professor Robert W. Parry was a giant in his profession. He was the founding editor of Inorganic Chemistry in […]
Read More“From abstract-looking cloud formations to roars of snow machines on ski slopes, the transformation of liquid water into solid ice touches many facets of life. Water’s freezing point is generally accepted to be 32 degrees Fahrenheit. But that is due to ice nucleation—impurities in everyday water raise its freezing point to this temperature. Now, researchers […]
Read MoreI am from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I have a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Universidade Federal Fluminense. I began my research journey with condensed matter physics focusing on the electronic structure of semiconductor alloys. During my undergraduate career, I spent two semesters as a visiting student at the University of Manitoba in Canada, where […]
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