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R. B. Sunoj Awarded 2019 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in the area of Chemical Science
R. B. Sunoj, a postdoctoral alum of Christopher Hadad was awarded the 2019 Shanti
Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in the area of Chemical Science by the Council of Scientific and Industrial…
NSF awards $27M to State-of-the-Art Research Instrumentation in Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
More than $27 million from the National Science Foundation will fund two new facilities here in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry! Lead PIs include Rafael Bruschweiler and Robert Baker…
Wu Awarded ACS Akron Section Award
Congratulations to Dr. Yiying Wu who recently received the Akron Section Award from the American Chemical Society! This award honors a scientist or engineer working in any branch of chemistry who…
RajanBabu Awarded ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
Congratulations to Dr. T. V. (Babu) RajanBabu who has been awarded the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society! The Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards were established in 1984…
Shiyu Zhang Awarded NSF Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Shiyu Zhang for being awarded his first National Science Foundation grant! This grant will support Dr. Zhang’s project titled “Applying rules of life to catalysis:…
Robert Baker Selected as Young Innovator in NanoEnergy
Please join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in congratulating Dr. Robert Baker for being selected as a Young Innovator in NanoEnergy! These “45 under 45” were selected by peer review…
Hannah Shafaat Featured in JACS Virtual Issue
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Shafaat, whose recent work has been selected for the 2019 Journal of the American Chemical Society Young Investigators Virtual Issue. Read the virtual issue here.
Alumni Spotlight: The woman who welded Apollo's rockets
Chemistry alumna of 1934 Margaret Brennecke worked at NASA on the mighty Saturn rockets that made up the backbone of the space age, including the rocket that brought humans to the moon 50…
Chris Jaroniec Named Associate Dean for Research and Creative Inquiry
Professor Christopher Jaroniec, Vice Chair for Research and Administration in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named Associate Dean for Research and Creative…