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The development of a cutting-edge technique to monitor and control chemical reactions in real time has the potential to transform pharmaceutical ma

University of Virginia students interested in organic chemistry this semester may have noticed two professors with the same last name on the course

Chemistry undergrad Elizabeth Fink has been awarded the 2024-2025 R. Gerald and Susan Bass Scholarship for Chemistry.

Primary School Student. When you have a cold and want to feel better, you are given cold medicine.

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Rebecca Pompano and her team of researchers consisting of scholars from around the country have won a $50,000 prize in the Compliment-Animal Resear

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Ian Winchester

GSAS Council Representative

Gabe Halford, of the Personick Lab, is a recipient of the ACS PRIDE-Merck Graduate Research Award, and he was recognized in a special award symposi

By: Miranda Wood and Melissa Leyden, UVA ChemSciComm

Karl Ocius, a graduate student in the Pires Lab, has been selected for the 2024 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color.

Congratulations to Huiyuan Zhu, who has been selected to attend the 2024 Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposia by the National Academy of Sciences.

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Ni Nanoparticle-catalyzed CO₂ Methanation

By Momodou Salieu Sowe, UVA ChemSciComm

Professor Marcos Pires has recently earned two grants from the National Institutes of Health.

Professor Linda Columbus was recently named a Commonwealth Professor of Chemistry. 

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Sophie Cook

DEI Journal Club Co-Leader

Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry
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By: Miranda Wood and Melissa Leyden

UVA ChemSciComm

Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry

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Chemistry graduate student Haley Scolati received a Grote Reber Doctoral Fellowship from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).

2023 DEI Project Leader Recognition Highlight
By Melissa Leyden and Hannah Musgrove
UVA ChemSciComm

By Delaney Hammond

The UVA Chemistry Department has awarded scholarships from two endowded funds.

Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry

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Hannah Musgrove - 2023 Sidney Hecht Fellow

UVA Chemistry Graduate Student Djuro Raskovic has recieved a 2023 UVA All-University Graduate Teaching Award in recognition of his dedication and o

Graduate students Frederick Brøndsted and Emma Cook have each been awarded a Jefferson Scholars Foundation Dissertation Year Fellowship.

Undergraduate/graduate student duo Katerina Morgaenko and Morgan-Elizabeth McKnight have been awarded a DoubleHoo Research Grant. 

Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry

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Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry

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Undergraduate researcher Sam Hanser received a 2023 Kolthoff Award from the ACS Analytical Division.

Congratulations to W. Dean Harman who has been promoted to a chaired professor. Effective January 10, 2023, Prof. Harman will be the William R.

Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry

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On October 7, 2022 the UVA Chemistry Department held an Open House for students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the Department to show off the rec

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UVA ChemSciComm

Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry
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Cameron “Cam” Hawley
Pictured with his wife Suzanne

Postdoctoral researcher R. Justin Grams, Ph.D., has received a 2022 UVA Cancer Center Trainee Award.

UVA Chemistry Associate Professor Robert Gilliard has been selected to receive the 2022 Lloyd N.

Emma N. Cook, ChemSciComm and GSC

Huiyuan Zhu, Ph.D.

My Research on Mass Spectrometry Characterization of Membrane Proteins for Five Levels of Understanding

By Delaney Hammond

Jordan Baker, a undergraduate researcher in the Gilliard Group, recently was awarded an American Chemical Society Scholars Program Award.

UVA Chemistry graduate student Renna Nouwairi of the Landers Group has been awarded a 2023 Jefferson Scholars Foundation Dissertation Year Fellowsh

By Rob Dyer

UVA ChemSciComm

Former graduate student Xiaofan Jia has been awarded UVA's 2022 Allan Talbot Gwathmey Memorial Award.

UVa Assistant Professor of Chemistry Kateri DuBay has been selected as a winner of the 2022 OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty award.

It has been a good couple of months for UVa Chemistry graduate student Bukuru Anaclet.

By Emma M. Cook, UVA ChemSciComm

It was announced today that Assistant Professor of Chemistry Sen Zhang has been named a 2022 A

UVa Chemistry Department Chair Jill Venton has received the 2022 Advances in M

By Amelia G. Reid.

UVA ChemSciComm

By Rob Dyer

UVA ChemSciComm

My Research for Five Levels of Understanding
By Sadie Kiendzior, UVA ChemSciComm

Richard J. "Dick" Sundberg died on November 1, 2021, in Hickory, N.C., after a period of declining health.

UVa Chemistry Professor T.

Congratulations to Sen Zhang and a team including Bob Davis and Lisa Colosi-Peterson from Engineering, on being selected for a new $2.3 million dol

Getting to Know UVA Chemistry’s Newest PhDs

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Two University of Virginia Chemistry graduate students have just been awarded 2021 Presidential Fellowships for Collaborative Neuroscience.

Graduate Student Social Events During Lockdown: Building Connections Virtually

By Anna Davis, UVA ChemSciComm

The University of Virginia Chemistry Department is pleased to announce Leah Dignan as the 2021 recipient of the Sidney M.

By Josh Prindle, UVA ChemSciComm

Jacob Walley ACS-DIC – Young Investigator Symposium Award

By Rob Dyer, UVA ChemSciComm

UVa Chemistry Graduate Student Timothy Ware has been awarded a Ruth L.

The research groups of UVa Chemistry Professors Sen Zhang and T. Brent Gunnoe have recently published a paper in Nature Catalysis.

Rachelle Turiello Awarded DOJ Graduate Research Fellowship

Congratulations to Julia Dressel, who has won the 2020 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research!

Undergraduate student Sarah Weisflog has been chosen to attend the FUTURE Ignited CCE Conference at CalTech on October 17, 2020.

UVa Chemistry Assistant Professor Andreas Gahlmann has been awarded a RO1 gran

Jacob Walley, of the Gilliard Group, has been named the 2020 Adam Ritchie Outstanding Graduate Student in Chemistry. This award was established in

The study of polymers, molecular structures composed of thousands of atoms, may be one of the fastest growing fields in science today.

The UVa Chemistry group led by W.

The Journal of Chemical Education, an ACS Publication, has named Marilyne Stains, Ph.D. as an Associate Editor. Prof.

“CAREER: Next-Gen Flow Cytometry - A New Approach to Cell Heterogeneity." Congratulations Ken!

AC Obi of the Gilliard Group has been selected to receive the Jefferson Fellowship beginning fall of 2020.  The Jefferson Fellowship is an extraord

Congratulations to Ken Hsu and his graduate student, Myungsun Shin.

Left to right: Jill Venton, Chair; Ji Zhang, Julie Laudenschlager, Mark Bernard, Pumidech Puthonkham, Grayson Johnson, Ana Geer, Megan Catterton, L

Rebecca McCloud of the Hsu Lab has been awarded the Adam Ritchie Outstanding Graduate Student for 2019.

Pumidech “Max” Puthongkham has been named a 2019 Sidney M. Hecht Graduate Fellow.

Congratulations to Joshua Hinkle, 2018-19 Awardee of the Metropolitan Washington Chapter of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (MWC/ARCS) Foundation!!!

The University of Virginia’s Rotunda still has its secrets, as conservators are discovering amid the building’s ongoing two-year renovation.