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Cindy Knight has been named recipient of the 2018 Leonard W. Sandridge Outstanding Contribution Award.

Professor Kateri DuBay has been chosen to receive the 2018 Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award.
A recent paper by the Hilinski Group in The Journal of Chemical Science has been highlighted by Synfacts and chosen as "Synfact o
Professor Ken Hsu is featured in the Future of Biochemistry, the special issue of the ACS publication Biochemistry. This special
Since 2003, ACA has published 11,152 articles. “Review: Carbon nanotube based electrochemical sensors for biomolecules” is the 5th highes

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

My Research on Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy for Five Levels of Understanding
By Josh Prindle
UVA ChemSciComm

By Emma N. Cook.
UVA ChemSciComm

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

Rachelle Turiello Awarded DOJ Graduate Research Fellowship

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

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

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

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

By Anna Davis
UVA ChemSciComm

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

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

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

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

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

13 students from the class of 2017 receive certification from The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Five of these students achieved certification with distinction.
Jacob Walley, of the Gilliard Group, has been named the 2020 Adam Ritchie Outstanding Graduate Student in Chemistry. This award was established in

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

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

Karl Westendorff, an Engineering student who does research with Dean Harman’s group has won a scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
Jacob Walley ACS-DIC – Young Investigator Symposium Award

By Amelia G. Reid.
UVA ChemSciComm

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

Getting to Know UVA Chemistry’s Undergraduate Researchers – Part 1
By Amelia Reid, UVA ChemSciComm
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

By Rob Dyer
UVA ChemSciComm

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

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

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

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

It was announced today that Assistant Professor of Chemistry Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. has been awarded an Alfred P.
Mike Hilinski has been awarded a NSF CAREER award entitled "New Methods for the Synthesis of Nitrogen-Containing Heterocycles" Congratulations, Mike!!

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

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

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

Rising 5th year students
First place (tie): Kelsie Wentz & Mark Bernard
Second place: Brianna Dalesandro

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

By Anna Davis, UVA ChemSciComm


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

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

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

by Julissa Velasquez and Viranga Wimalasiri, L.E.A.D.
in collaboration with UVA ChemSciComm

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

Graduate Student Social Events During Lockdown: Building Connections Virtually

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

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

Charlie Machan has been awarded his first NSF Grant “Developing Homogeneous Mn Catalyst Systems for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction”.
Left to right: Jill Venton, Chair; Ji Zhang, Julie Laudenschlager, Mark Bernard, Pumidech Puthonkham, Grayson Johnson, Ana Geer, Megan Catterton, L

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

Keira Mahoney Awarded Inaugural Donald F. Hunt Graduate Fellowship

The UVa Chemistry Department resumed its annual Departmental Retreat on October 12, 2021, after a one-year hiatus due to the COVID pandemic.
The Pompano Lab's research was featured in C&E News' coverage of the national ACS Conference.

Getting to Know UVA Chemistry’s Newest PhDs
Amelia Reid, UVA ChemSciComm

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

Efficient Nanocrystal Surface Cleaning by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
By Emma Cook, UVA ChemSciComm

By Hannah Musgrove
UVA ChemSciComm

By Josh Prindle, UVA ChemSciComm

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

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

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

Getting to Know UVA Chemistry’s Undergraduate Researchers – Part 2
Amelia Reid, UVA ChemSciComm

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

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

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

UVa Chemistry Professor T.

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

by Hannah Musgrove, UVA ChemSciComm

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