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May 1, 2024
Summer 2024 Newsletter
April 15, 2024
New Chemistry GSC Officers Announced
September 23, 2023
Prof. Marcos Pires earns two NIH grants
September 13, 2023
Prof. B. Jill Venton named Thomas Jefferson Professor of Chemistry
September 13, 2023
Prof. Linda Columbus named Commonwealth Professor of Chemistry
September 12, 2023
Assistant Professor Bioanalytical Chemistry, Assistant Professor, General Faculty (Teaching Track) Position in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry
September 6, 2023
Chemistry Graduate Student Outreach Highlight: Sophie Cook
August 30, 2023
Cliff Stains Awarded MIRA
August 24, 2023
Staff Highlight: Seth Matula
August 23, 2023
Mike Hilinski Awarded NIH R35 Grant
August 18, 2023
She Dozed off in Class on Day. It Changed Her Life
August 17, 2023
New Process May Reduce Negative Impacts of Making Plastics, Other Products
July 28, 2023
Chemistry of Wellness: Hair and Hair Care
July 24, 2023
Staff Highlight: Carol Price
July 24, 2023
New Graduate Student Committees Announced
July 13, 2023
Staff Highlight: Cindy Knight
June 29, 2023
How Should I Begin a Job Search for a Career After a Graduate Degree in Chemistry?
June 28, 2023
Superstructure Synthesis Breakthrough Could Transform U.S. Energy and Manufacturing Industries
June 28, 2023
Paul Bean Appears on May 6th "Hoos In STEM" Podcast
June 20, 2023
Haley Scolati receives NRAO Grote Reber Doctoral Fellowship
June 20, 2023
Kamil Stelmach receives NASA SCoPE Grant
June 16, 2023
Jherian Mitchell-Jones selected as a 2023 Institutionally Supported SREB Scholar
June 15, 2023
Marcos Pires receives $3M NIH Grant to Study Antibiotic Resistance
June 15, 2023
Qianqian Shao Named 2023 DEI Recognition Awardee
June 5, 2023
Erin Lawrence appointed to Biotechnology Training Grant
June 5, 2023
Ian Winchester selected as a trainee for NIH T32 Training Grant
May 26, 2023
Rebecca Pompano Named Shannon Fellow
May 22, 2023
Prof. Jelena Samonina Forms Dream Team
May 12, 2023
Thomas A. Saunders Family Jefferson Scholars Foundation University Professorship in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
May 8, 2023
Chemistry Undergraduate Scholarships Awarded
May 8, 2023
Chemistry Undergraduate Scholarships Awarded
May 4, 2023
Staff Highlight: Raymond Jackson
May 4, 2023
Abigail Graham and Rachelle Turiello win big at Grad Thesis SLAM final competition
April 25, 2023
Five UVA Chemistry Students Elected Pi Beta Kappa
April 25, 2023
UVA Chemistry Announces Hecht Fellowship, Hunt Fellowship and Ritchie Recipients
April 14, 2023
Linda Columbus Awarded Cottrell STAR Award
April 14, 2023
Djuro Raskovic Wins All-University Graduate Teaching Award
April 12, 2023
Staff Highlight: Earl Ashcraft
March 28, 2023
Chemists’ Device Could Be a Gamechanger for Crime Scene Investigators
March 25, 2023
Frederik Brøndsted and Emma Cook receive Jefferson Scholars Foundation Dissertation Year Fellowship
March 24, 2023
Why Choose UVA Chemistry
March 23, 2023
UVA Chemistry Hires Michelle Personick
March 22, 2023
Rebecca Pompano Highlighted in NIH Record
March 17, 2023
Undergraduate students Alysha Johnson and Jordan Baker receive ACS Scholars Program Awards
March 13, 2023
Undergraduate Tiffany Tran receives Harrison Award
March 13, 2023
Undergraduate Tiffany Tran receives Harrison Award
March 13, 2023
Katerina Morgaenko and Morgan-Elizabeth McKnight receive DoubleHoo Research Award
March 7, 2023
2022-23 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awardees Announced
March 3, 2023
Staff Spotlight: Diane Dickie
February 24, 2023
Graduate student Rachelle Turiello awarded ARCS Fellowship
February 22, 2023
Staff Spotlight: Jan Dean-Clemmer
February 17, 2023
Huiyuan Zhu Named Sloan Fellow
February 6, 2023
Undergraduate Sam Hanser wins 2023 Kalthoff Award
January 19, 2023
W. Dean Harman Receives Chaired Professorship
January 17, 2023
Staff Spotlight: Jeff Ellena
November 28, 2022
Staff Spotlight: Jarrad Reiner
November 18, 2022
Announcing 2023 Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellows Program
November 11, 2022
2022 Graham Lecture and Open House
November 9, 2022
Linda Columbus Leads Way to HHMI Driving Change Grant
November 7, 2022
Staff Spotlight: Cecelia Cropley
October 28, 2022
First Generation Student and Faculty Meet and Greet Nov. 7th
October 26, 2022
Staff Spotlight: Ed de Bary
October 20, 2022
A Summer to L.E.A.D.
October 12, 2022
Ilse Cleeves Wins Collaborative Scialog Award
October 12, 2022
Rebecca Pompano Named Moore Inventor Fellow
September 19, 2022
UVA Chemistry Chosen as ACS Bridge Program Partner
September 13, 2022
Robert Gilliard Wins ACS Harry Gray Award
September 7, 2022
Staff Spotlight: Cameron Hawley
August 25, 2022
DOE Secretary Jennifer Granholm Visits UVA Chemistry to Announce Clean Energy Initiates
August 22, 2022
Students of the Hsu Lab Earn Recognition
August 22, 2022
Justin Grams, Ph.D. earns UVA Chemistry Trainee Award
August 19, 2022
Robert Gilliard Wins Lloyd N. Ferguson Award
August 19, 2022
Chemistry Dept. Hiring Undergrad to do Online Marketing
August 16, 2022
UVA Chemistry Awarded NSF MRI for new NMR Spectrometer
August 8, 2022
Sip and Paint… Your Research Event
July 22, 2022
UVA Undergrads Score High on ASBMB Exam
July 18, 2022
New Assistant Professor Huiyuan Zhu Arrives for Fall 2022
July 1, 2022
Josh Prindle: My Research on Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy
June 29, 2022
UVA Astrochemist Rob Garrod Helps Explore the Chemistry of Outer Space
June 28, 2022
Chemistry Participating in UVA Climate Change Initiative
June 27, 2022
Melissa Leyden: My Research on Mass Spectrometry Characterization of Membrane Proteins
June 24, 2022
Drew Christianson Wins NASA FINESST Fellowship
June 13, 2022
Sen Zhang Featured in A&S Magazine
June 13, 2022
UVA Chemistry Students Intern at LVG
June 9, 2022
Kamil Stelmach Wins LaGrange Award at International Space Development Conference
June 9, 2022
Kelsie Wentz Named 2022 Adam Ritchie Outstanding Graduate Student
June 8, 2022
Jordan Baker Awarded ACS Scholars Program Award
June 8, 2022
Four UVA Chemistry Faculty Promoted
May 31, 2022
Renna Nouwairi Awarded Jefferson Dissertation Year Fellowship
May 24, 2022
Spring Career Seminar Series Event Rescheduled
May 23, 2022
Rob Dyer: My Research in the Hilinski Group for Five Levels of Understanding
May 23, 2022
Inspiring Future Scientists Above and Beyond
May 16, 2022
Xiaofan Jia Receives UVA's Gwathmey Memorial Award
April 15, 2022
3rd Year Poster Winners
April 12, 2022
Kateri DuBay Awarded OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty
April 7, 2022
Bukuru Anaclet Wins Two National Fellowships
April 7, 2022
Kelly Dunham Awarded Jefferson Fellowship
March 30, 2022
UVA Women in STEM, Science Communication & Career Success
March 28, 2022
Student Spotlight: Lauren Schmidt
February 18, 2022
Hannah Musgrove: My Research in the Pompano Group for Five Levels of Understanding
February 16, 2022
David Cafiso Awarded IES Silver Medal in Medicine/Biology
February 15, 2022
UVa Chemistry Professor Sen Zhang Named a 2022 Sloan Fellow
February 14, 2022
Kelsie Wentz Wins ACS Travel Award
February 14, 2022
Ceci Xue receives 2021 Robert Brown Outstanding Dissertation Award
February 9, 2022
Staff Spotlight: Madi Alvis
February 9, 2022
Ilse Cleeves Named 2022 Cottrell Scholar
February 1, 2022
Gilliard and Zhang Honored with Research Excellence Awards
January 25, 2022
Anna Davis: My Research in the Hilinski Group for Five Levels of Understanding
January 20, 2022
Jill Venton Receives 2022 Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship Award
January 18, 2022
Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
January 18, 2022
Amelia Reid: My Research in the Machan Group for Five Levels of Understanding
January 7, 2022
Emma Cook: My Research in the Machan Group for Five Levels of Understanding
December 16, 2021
Machan Lab Wins “Shut the Sash Challenge”
December 16, 2021
From Water to Clean Energy: Chemistry Graduate Student Honored
December 16, 2021
UVA Chemist Brent Gunnoe Wins National Award for Advances in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry
November 30, 2021
Getting to Know UVA Chemistry’s Undergraduate Researchers – Part 2
November 30, 2021
Research in the Venton Lab for Five Levels of Understanding
November 19, 2021
Getting to Know UVA Chemistry’s Undergraduate Researchers – Part 1
November 19, 2021
Sadie Kiendzior: My Research for Five Levels of Understanding
November 12, 2021
In Memoriam: Richard J. "Dick" Sundberg
October 14, 2021
UVa Chemistry Holds Retreat Featuring Keynote by Cassandra Fraser
October 14, 2021
Robert Gilliard Named 2021 Packard Fellow
October 11, 2021
Perrin Godbold Awarded DOE Research Award
September 27, 2021
Brent Gunnoe Awarded ACS George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry
September 24, 2021
UVa Chemistry Offering Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowships
September 17, 2021
Cafiso Group: A Finicky Protein that Works Best at Home
September 13, 2021
Sen Zhang Leads Team on New $2.3M US DOE Grant
September 2, 2021
UVa Chemistry to Hold UVA Rising Star in Chemistry Postdoctoral Seminar Series
August 25, 2021
Getting to Know UVA Chemistry’s Newest PhDs
July 30, 2021
Graduate Poster Session Winners Announced
July 28, 2021
Yuanyu Chang and Sophie Cook Awarded 2021 Presidential Fellowships
July 12, 2021
Robert Gilliard Named Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow
July 12, 2021
Graduate Student Social Events During Lockdown: Building Connections Virtually
July 12, 2021
Herbst Group: Using Radio Astronomy to Find Organic Molecules in Stellar and Planetary Nurseries
June 1, 2021
Frederik Brondsted Named Jefferson Fellow
May 18, 2021
Zhang Group: Efficient Nanocrystal Surface Cleaning by N-Heterocyclic Carbene
May 13, 2021
Gilliard Group: Understanding the Fundamentals of Stabilizing Mononuclear Bismuth Cations
May 5, 2021
Pompano Group: Studying Immunity Through Lymph Nodes
May 4, 2021
Grayson Johnson Awarded DOE Fellowship
April 23, 2021
Funded Undergraduate Research Opens New Learning Avenues for Students
April 22, 2021
Charlie Machan Receives NSF Grant
April 22, 2021
Class of 2021: Lauren Killian Embarks Upon the Journey From ROTC to Navy Pilot
April 19, 2021
Leah Dignan Named 2021 Sidney M. Hecht Graduate Fellow in Chemistry
April 12, 2021
Chang Liu Awarded Jefferson Dissertation Year Fellowship and Ritchie Award
April 1, 2021
Gunnoe Group: Stilbenes- Important Molecules in Need of a Synthesis Makeover
March 26, 2021
Jacob Walley Receives ACS-DIC Young Investigator Symposium Award
March 24, 2021
Robert Gilliard in A&S News: Chemist’s Study of Light-Producing Molecules Earns Him the NSF’s Coveted CAREER Award
March 12, 2021
UVa Chemistry Participating in Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellows Program
March 11, 2021
Robert Gilliard is the 2021 Organometallics Distinguished Author
March 8, 2021
Gahlmann Lab Reports Advances in Bacterial Cell Imaging
February 16, 2021
UVa Chemistry Professor Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. Named a 2021 Sloan Fellow
February 11, 2021
Graduate Student Tim Ware Awarded Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual NRSA
February 5, 2021
UVa Chemistry Professor Ken Hsu Receives Emerging Leader Award from The Mark Foundation
January 25, 2021
Alicia Frantz Highlighted in UVa Today
January 25, 2021
Gilliard Group Beryllium Work Highlighted in C&EN
January 21, 2021
Zhang and Gunnoe Groups Published in Nature Catalysis
January 7, 2021
Jonathan Dabbs Awarded Ereztech BridgeForward Award
December 14, 2020
Students Thrive with Innovative Design of General Chemistry
December 10, 2020
Gilliard Group Beryllium Cation Finalist for C&EN News Molecule of the Year
December 4, 2020
Keira Mahoney Awarded Inaugural Donald F. Hunt Graduate Fellowship
December 4, 2020
Rachelle Turiello Awarded DOJ Graduate Research Fellowship
November 12, 2020
Julia Dressel Wins ACS Award
October 29, 2020
Sen Zhang & Robert Gilliard Awarded PRF Grants
October 9, 2020
Sergei Egorov Contributes to New Book
September 22, 2020
Sarah Weisflog Chosen to Attend FUTURE Ignited CCE Conference
September 10, 2020
Laura Serbulea Named a Mentor to US National Chemistry Olympiad Team
August 26, 2020
Andreas Gahlmann Awarded NIH RO1
August 14, 2020
Robert Gilliard Named to the C&EN Talented 12
July 27, 2020
Gilliard and Machan Groups in C&E News
July 8, 2020
Sen Zhang & Robert Gilliard Named 2020 Scialog Fellows
July 7, 2020
Jacob Walley Wins the Adam Ritchie Award
June 23, 2020
Sarah Weisflog Wins ACS Bridge Travel Award
June 9, 2020
Kateri DuBay Wins Awards for Polymer Research and Educational Initiatives
June 9, 2020
ACS at UVA Supports Black Lives Matter: This Student-led Organization is Taking Steps to Promote Racial Equity in STEM
June 8, 2020
Michael Hilinski & Ken Hsu Promoted to Associate Professor
May 21, 2020
Harman Group-Led Study Published in Nature
May 19, 2020
UVa Chemistry Holds Virtual Graduation Ceremony
May 19, 2020
Faculty Congratulate 2020 Graduates
May 19, 2020
UHR COVID-19 Information
May 14, 2020
Karl Westendorff of the Harman Group, Wins Award from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.
May 8, 2020
Ken Hsu Makes Clinical OMICs' "10 Under 40" List!
May 7, 2020
Marilyne Stains Named Associate Editor
January 10, 2020
Gilliard Group Research Featured in the News
January 10, 2020
Diane Dickie published her 100th paper co-authored with Robert Gilliard and his group.
December 11, 2019
Ken Hsu wins an NSF CAREER award
October 25, 2019
AC Obi Selected as a Jefferson Fellow
October 24, 2019
Congratulations to Rebecca Pompano, lead PI on a 3.4M NIH Grant!
June 5, 2019
Professor Ken Hsu Discovers Possible Addiction-Free Pain Reliever: WINA Interview
April 23, 2019
Congratulations to Rebecca Pompano!
April 23, 2019
Graduate Student Awardees Recognized at this Year's Annual Chemistry Retreat
April 23, 2019
Congratulations to Mike Hilinski!
April 9, 2019
The Egorov Group's paper makes the cover of Nature Electronics!!!
March 31, 2019
UVA Presentations and Posters at the ACS 2019 National Meeting
February 15, 2019
Adam Ritchie Outstanding Graduate Student Award for 2019
January 10, 2019
9th Annual Lester Andrews Graduate Research Symposium: May 21-23, 2019!!!
December 20, 2018
Zhang Lab research published in Nature Catalysis
July 23, 2018
Ilse Cleeves Awarded a 2019 Packard Fellowship! Congratulations!
July 6, 2018
2019 Sidney M. Hecht Graduate Fellow
May 3, 2018
Cindy Knight receives the 2018 Leonard W. Sandridge Outstanding Contribution Award!
April 25, 2018
Congratulations to Ken Hsu, Selected to Receive a Young Investigator Award
April 9, 2018
Rebecca McCloud of the Hsu Lab receives 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
April 9, 2018
Congratulations to Lindsay Wheeler and Michael Palmer on their recently published article in Science!
March 27, 2018
Professor DuBay Receives 2018 University Teaching Award!
March 27, 2018
Lester S. Andrews honored with a Festschrift Virtual Special Issue
March 23, 2018
Ken Hsu receives US Department of Defense career development award
March 20, 2018
Joshua Hinkle
March 1, 2018
Professor Emeritus Lester Andrews has been honored with a Festschrift Virtual Special Issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry A.
January 26, 2018
Congratulations to the Hilinski Group!
January 22, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Ken Hsu
October 25, 2017
James Landers named to the Analyical Scientist Power List of 2017
October 16, 2017
Pompano Research Lab
October 16, 2017
Huiwang Ai receives ACS Toxicology Young Investigators Award
September 4, 2017
Brent Gunnoe named Commonwealth Professor of Chemistry
August 3, 2017
Jill Venton's ACA Review is 5th highest cited paper
July 28, 2017
Linda Columbus named co-director of the Global Infectious Diseases Institute
March 29, 2017
Jeffersoniona-era Chemistry Hearth Preserved in Rotunda Wall
March 29, 2017
13 students receive ASBMB Certification
December 7, 2016
Professor Dean Harman featured in UVAToday
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UVA Chemistry Spring 2022 Newsletter
December 20, 2023
at UVA Chemistry: Assistant Professor Bioanalytical Chemistry, Assistant Professor, General Faculty (teaching track) position in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Thomas A. Saunders Family Jefferson Scholars Foundation University Professorship
September 15, 2023
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