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Whittaker-Brooks Groups’ Research Published by Matter

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Luisa 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 […]

August 21, 2023

Professor Tang’s Research Published

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Photo 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 […]

July 3, 2023

Jeff Statler, Solar System and Planets

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Jeff 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 […]

June 28, 2023

Professor Whittaker-Brooks in the Faculty Fellowship Program in Israel

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Professor 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 […]

June 27, 2023

Single Crystals Meet Their Match in the Advanced Inorganic Lab

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Since 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 […]

February 14, 2023

2023 Graduate Research Symposium

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Call 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 […]

January 30, 2023

Vinyl Carbocation Finally Confined

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Researchers 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 […]

December 12, 2022

Peter Stang one of Clarivate’s Most Cited Scientists

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Each 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 […]

November 17, 2022

Power Hour With GRC’s Nancy Gray

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Nancy Gray of Gordon Research Seminars delivered her seminar, The Power Hour, October 17th, 2022. The Power Hour is a forum for conversations about the barriers to inclusivity and addressing the challenges underrepresented groups face in achieving equity in science. The GRC Power Hour has been incredibly popular with both men and women, reflecting growing […]

October 19, 2022

An Interview with Peter B. Armentrout

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Prof. Peter B. Armentrout received the 2021 ASMS John B. Fenn Award for a Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry. The award recognizes Peter’s development of techniques for determining accurate thermochemistry via the guided ion beam method, and software programs for statistically modeling product formation energy dependence. Thanks to these contributions, nearly 2500 distinct bond energies have […]

September 15, 2022