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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 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
Rebecca McCloud of the Hsu Lab has been awarded the Adam Ritchie Outstanding Graduate Student for 2019.
UVa Chemistry Graduate Student Timothy Ware has been awarded a Ruth L.
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.
Sen Zhang and Robert Gilliard Awarded American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Grants
Two University of Virginia Chemistry graduate students have just been awarded 2021 Presidential Fellowships for Collaborative Neuroscience.
Jacob Walley, of the Gilliard Group, has been named the 2020 Adam Ritchie Outstanding Graduate Student in Chemistry. This award was established in
Karl Westendorff, an Engineering student who does research with Dean Harman’s group has won a scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
Congratulations to Ken Hsu and his graduate student, Myungsun Shin.
Jacob Walley ACS-DIC – Young Investigator Symposium Award
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
UVa Chemistry Assistant Professor Robert Gilliard has been named a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow.
Congratulations to Michael Hilinski and Ku-Lung (Ken) Hsu as they have been promoted to Associate Professor without Term.
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!
Mike Hilinski has been awarded a NSF CAREER award entitled "New Methods for the Synthesis of Nitrogen-Containing Heterocycles" Congratulations, Mike!!
It was announced today that Assistant Professor of Chemistry Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. has been awarded an Alfred P.
The University of Virginia’s Rotunda still has its secrets, as conservators are discovering amid the building’s ongoing two-year renovation.
Congratulations to Julia Dressel, who has won the 2020 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research!
Rising 5th year students
First place (tie): Kelsie Wentz & Mark Bernard
Second place: Brianna Dalesandro
By Anna Davis, UVA ChemSciComm
Pumidech “Max” Puthongkham has been named a 2019 Sidney M. Hecht Graduate Fellow.
The research groups of UVa Chemistry Professors Sen Zhang and T. Brent Gunnoe have recently published a paper in Nature Catalysis.
Graduate Student Social Events During Lockdown: Building Connections Virtually
The study of polymers, molecular structures composed of thousands of atoms, may be one of the fastest growing fields in science today.
Charlie Machan has been awarded his first NSF Grant “Developing Homogeneous Mn Catalyst Systems for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction”.
Robert Gilliard and his group are featured in the C&EN Magazine article, "Beryllium Radical Cation Isolated." The article states that
Left to right: Jill Venton, Chair; Ji Zhang, Julie Laudenschlager, Mark Bernard, Pumidech Puthonkham, Grayson Johnson, Ana Geer, Megan Catterton, L
The Pompano Lab's research was featured in C&E News' coverage of the national ACS Conference.
Keira Mahoney Awarded Inaugural Donald F. Hunt Graduate Fellowship
Getting to Know UVA Chemistry’s Newest PhDs
Amelia Reid, UVA ChemSciComm
Efficient Nanocrystal Surface Cleaning by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
By Emma Cook, 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
Ilse is an assistant professor of astronomy with a joint appointment in chemistry.
Associate Professor of Chemistry Ku-Lung (Ken) Hsu has been named a 2021 Emerging Leader by the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research.
Undergraduate student Sarah Weisflog has been chosen to attend the FUTURE Ignited CCE Conference at CalTech on October 17, 2020.
Using Radio Astronomy to Find Organic Molecules in Stellar and Planetary Nurseries
by Hannah Musgrove, UVA ChemSciComm
Sarah Weisflog, an undergraduate researcher in the Gilliard group, is a 2020 American Chemical Society Bridge Travel Award winner in the amount of
The Journal of Chemical Education, an ACS Publication, has named Marilyne Stains, Ph.D. as an Associate Editor. Prof.
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
Congratulations to Joshua Hinkle, 2018-19 Awardee of the Metropolitan Washington Chapter of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (MWC/ARCS) Foundation!!!
Rachelle Turiello Awarded DOJ Graduate Research Fellowship