UVA Chemistry announces the hiring of Michelle Personick, Ph.D. as an Associate Professor of Chemistry. Prof.

Chemistry students Alysha Johnson and Jordan Baker have received awards from the ACS Scholars Program. 

Chemistry student Tiffany Tran has received a Harrison Undergraduate Research Award.

UVA Chemistry annually honors our best graduate teaching assistants with the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awards.

Graduate student Rachelle Turiello was awarded an ARCS Endowment Award in Chemistry.

By Emma Cook, Hannah Musgrove, and Rob Dyer

UVA ChemSciComm

Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry

Compiled and edited for clarity by Hannah Musgrove

This program seeks to recruit and support postdoctoral scholars who will contribute to advancing STEM diversity, equity and inclusion in their jou

By Delaney Hammond

Getting to know the staff of UVA Chemistry 

Compiled and edited for clarity by Hannah Musgrove 

The University of Virginia Chemistry Department was chosen to become an ACS Bridge Program Partner, joining 40 other major academic institutions ar

UVA Chemistry Associate Professor Robert Gilliard has been named the recipient of the 2023 Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistr

By Delaney Hammond

The University of Virginia Chemistry Department has learned it will be awarded a Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Fou

The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) offers each year a

My Research on Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy for Five Levels of Understanding

By Josh Prindle

UVA ChemSciComm

Doctoral candidate Drew Christianson of the Garrod Group has been awarded a NASA FINESST or Furture Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science a

Graduate student Kelsie Wentz, of the Gilliard Group, is the recipient of the 2022 Adam Ritchie Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Chemistry.

At the June 3, 2022 Board of Visitors meeting, four Chemistry faculty had thier promotions made official.

by Julissa Velasquez and Viranga Wimalasiri, L.E.A.D.

in collaboration with UVA ChemSciComm

On April 14, 2022 the Chemistry Department held the 3rd Year Graduate Student Poster Session and the winners were announced.

Kelly Dunham, of the Venton Lab, has been awarded a Jefferson Scholars Fellowship.

By Emma M. Cook, UVA ChemSciComm

By Hannah Musgrove

UVA ChemSciComm

By Anna Davis

UVA ChemSciComm

By Emma N. Cook.

UVA ChemSciComm

Getting to Know UVA Chemistry’s Undergraduate Researchers – Part 2

Amelia Reid, UVA ChemSciComm

Getting to Know UVA Chemistry’s Undergraduate Researchers – Part 1

By Amelia Reid, UVA ChemSciComm

The UVa Chemistry Department resumed its annual Departmental Retreat on October 12, 2021, after a one-year hiatus due to the COVID pandemic.

BtuB: A Finicky Protein that Works Best at Home (DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.

The UVa Chemistry Department is proud to host the "UVA Rising Star in Chemistry Postdoctoral Seminar Series" this Fall.

Rising 5th year students

First place (tie): Kelsie Wentz & Mark Bernard

Second place: Brianna Dalesandro

by Hannah Musgrove, UVA ChemSciComm

UVa Chemistry Assistant Professor Robert Gilliard has been named a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow.

Efficient Nanocrystal Surface Cleaning by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

By Emma Cook, UVA ChemSciComm

By: Amelia Reid, UVa ChemSciComm

Charlie Machan has been awarded his first NSF Grant “Developing Homogeneous Mn Catalyst Systems for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction”. 

Congratulations to Chang Liu in the Sen Zhang lab for being awarded a prestigious Jefferson Dissertation Year Fellowship from Jefferson Scholars Fo

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Professor Robert J. Gilliard, Jr.

It was announced today that Assistant Professor of Chemistry Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. has been awarded an Alfred P.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Ku-Lung (Ken) Hsu has been named a 2021 Emerging Leader by the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research.

The first Beryllium cation, synthesized by Robert Gilliard’s group is a finali

Keira Mahoney Awarded Inaugural Donald F. Hunt Graduate Fellowship

Sen Zhang and Robert Gilliard Awarded American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Grants

Congratulations to Laura Serbulea, who has been named a mentor for the

Congratulations to Sen Zhang and

Sarah Weisflog, an undergraduate researcher in the Gilliard group, is a 2020 American Chemical Society Bridge Travel Award winner in the amount of

Congratulations to Michael Hilinski and Ku-Lung (Ken) Hsu as they have been promoted to Associate Professor without Term. 

Karl Westendorff, an Engineering student who does research with Dean Harman’s group has won a scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation

Robert Gilliard and his group are featured in the C&EN Magazine article, "Beryllium Radical Cation Isolated." The article states that

Congratulations to Rebecca Pompano who is lead PI on a new, 3.4M NIH grant, to develop a model lymph node on a chip.  This grant was a winner of th

Mike Hilinski has been awarded a NSF CAREER award entitled "New Methods for the Synthesis of Nitrogen-Containing Heterocycles" Congratulations, Mike!!

Ilse is an assistant professor of astronomy with a joint appointment in chemistry.

The Pompano Lab's research was featured in C&E News' coverage of the national ACS Conference.