“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 […]
Read MoreThe Alfred P. Sloan Foundationhas just released the names of this year’s Fellows and our very own Professor Noriega is one of them! “Congratulations to the Sloan Research Fellows of 2024. The following 126 early-career scholars represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of […]
Read MoreA collaborative research project with Professor Swanson’s group, Professor Roberts’ group, and Postdoctoral Associate Dr. Gabe Da Hora, resulted in a feature on the cover of Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), titled: Lasso Peptides: Exploring the Folding Landscape of Nature’s Smallest Interlocked Motifs. Professor Jerssica Swanson Dr. Gabe da Hora Professor Andrew Roberts […]
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 MoreThis semester undergraduates students of chemistry worked together with their TAs to create crystal structures with tungsten and platinum. After they completed this experiment, the students created posters to reflect their own processes in their findings and accomplishments. Tom Richmond, professor of Chemistry said “On October 6th, our Advanced Inorganic Lab students celebrated the end […]
Read MoreBrittany Haas, an outstanding 5th-year graduate student in the Sigman Group, was recently published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). The publication was on a method development project that was a collaborative effort of the Sigman Group at the University of Utah, the Toste Group at UC Berkeley, the Miller Group at […]
Read MoreSally 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 […]
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