Sally Hunnicutt, MS Chemistry ’86, held a chemistry faculty workshop for 2 days (Sat and Sun), this summer. Sally was one of the 3 facilitators with 22 faculty participants at the workshop. The workshop was to train instructors on how to modify their physical chemistry laboratory courses to use the POGIL approach. The POGIL-PCL community […]
Read MoreLuisa Whittaker-Brooks, Professor of Chemistry, Kameron Hansen, post-doc in Whittaker-Brooks group, and John Colton from Brigham Young University worked together on Mechanistic origins of excitonic properties in 2D perovskites: Implications for exciton engineering, published by Matter on July 28, 2023. Kameron Hansen, the postdoc research associate in the Luisa Whittaker-Brooks group, noted: “This was a […]
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 MoreJeff Statler, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, spent the summer solstice assisting British particle physicists Brian Cox and his BBC filming crew in the high Uintah Mountains. The BBC is currently in Utah for the filming of a new series on our Solar System and its Planets. As you may know, Venus has a particularly […]
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 […]
Read MoreSince the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Lawrence and Henry Bragg in 1915, X-ray diffraction has played an important role in elucidating the structure of matter from diamonds to DNA to the ribosome. Two decades ago, collection and analysis of X-ray data for small molecules was often a multi-week process. However, the recent […]
Read MoreCall for abstract submissions for the 2023 Graduate Research Symposium which will take place on the week of March 20, 2023. Graduates and Undergraduates are welcome to apply! We wanted to remind you about the upcoming third annual Graduate Research Symposium, which is scheduled to take place from March 20th to March 24th, 2023. Abstracts […]
Read MoreMatt Sigman It has been a while since we published our last issue of the Catalyst. Many things have changed since then–we have new colleagues, lost some of our friends, weathered the complexity of the pandemic, and continued to build the department. What has remained the same is the underlying passion, drive, and excellence that […]
Read MoreResearchers in Matthew S. Sigman’s group at the University of Utah, K. N. Houk’s group at the University of California, Los Angeles and Hosea M. Nelson’s group at the California Institute of Technology have confined a vinyl carbocation within a bulky catalyst, and have now shown they can get it to insert itself into a […]
Read MoreEach year, Clarivate™ identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. In 2022, fewer than 7,000, or about 0.1%, of the world’s researchers, in 21 research fields and across multiple fields, have earned this exclusive distinction. Peter Stang is among […]
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