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The newly elected GSC officers for 2024-2025 are:
President: Miranda Wood
The UVA Chemistry Graduate students have named members to serve on some key committees.
How Should I Begin a Job Search for a Career After a Graduate Degree in Chemistry?
First Generation Student and Faculty Meet and Greet
The Department of Chemistry is looking to hire a talented undergraduate student with online marketing expertise.
For the 2022 graduate school Ph.D.
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
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
Karl Ocius, a graduate student in the Pires Lab, has been selected for the 2024 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color.
Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry
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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.
Former graduate student Xiaofan Jia has been awarded UVA's 2022 Allan Talbot Gwathmey Memorial Award.
For the second year in a row, the University of Virginia Chemistry Department’s ACS Student Chapter received recognition from the American Chemical
Getting to Know UVA Chemistry’s Newest PhDs
Amelia Reid, UVA ChemSciComm
UVA in the Netherlands: Applied Organic Chemistry II
Hands-On Learning in a Global Setting – Summer 2025
Five UVA Undergraduate majors in Chemistry or Biochemistry have been elected to Pi Beta Kappa. The are:
Abhiskek Bazaz
By Hannah Musgrove
UVA ChemSciComm
Professor Linda Columbus was recently named a Commonwealth Professor of Chemistry.
Efficient Nanocrystal Surface Cleaning by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
By Emma Cook, UVA ChemSciComm
Chemistry undergrad Elizabeth Fink has been awarded the 2024-2025 R. Gerald and Susan Bass Scholarship for Chemistry.
AC Obi of the Gilliard Group has been selected to receive the Jefferson Fellowship beginning fall of 2020. The Jefferson Fellowship is an extraord
By Josh Prindle, UVA ChemSciComm
Graduate student Rachelle Turiello was awarded an ARCS Endowment Award in Chemistry.
Ilse is an assistant professor of astronomy with a joint appointment in chemistry.
Chemistry graduate student Haley Scolati received a Grote Reber Doctoral Fellowship from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).
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.
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
Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry
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Getting to Know UVA Chemistry’s Undergraduate Researchers – Part 2
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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.
ChemSciComm Grad Student Research Highlight
Fred Brøndsted
Ph.D. Candidate, C. Stains Lab
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Professor Huiyuan Zhu was recently awarded seed funding from the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office.
Professor Jelena Samonina connects with chemistry students through the Mead Endowment
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Kelly Dunham, of the Venton Lab, has been awarded a Jefferson Scholars Fellowship.
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
The development of a cutting-edge technique to monitor and control chemical reactions in real time has the potential to transform pharmaceutical ma
UVA Chemistry Graduate Student Djuro Raskovic has recieved a 2023 UVA All-University Graduate Teaching Award in recognition of his dedication and o
The Journal of Chemical Education, an ACS Publication, has named Marilyne Stains, Ph.D. as an Associate Editor. Prof.
Professor Cliff Stains has been awarded a MIRA (Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award) from the National Institute of General Medical
Chemistry PhD candidate Megan Garris has been awarded the first Fellowship for Graduate Student Collaborative Drug Discovery Projects.
Chemistry student Tiffany Tran has received a Harrison Undergraduate Research Award.
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
Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry
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My Research on Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy for Five Levels of Understanding
By Josh Prindle
UVA ChemSciComm
Undergraduate researcher Sam Hanser received a 2023 Kolthoff Award from the ACS Analytical Division.
By Emma N. Cook.
UVA ChemSciComm
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.
On April 10, 2025 the Chemistry Department held the 3rd Year Graduate Student Poster Session.
Congratulations to Joshua Hinkle, 2018-19 Awardee of the Metropolitan Washington Chapter of Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (MWC/ARCS) Foundation!!!
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UVA Chemistry Associate Professor Robert Gilliard has been named the recipient of the 2023 Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistr
The UVa Chemistry Department is proud to host the "UVA Rising Star in Chemistry Postdoctoral Seminar Series" this Fall.
Daniel Colombani-Garay from the Tepe group was awarded an NIH R36 Research Dissertation Award.
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Mircale Enwere (center) was awarded the third-place prize at the Innovation Tank Pitch Competition held at the National Organization for the Profes
UVA Chemistry announces the hiring of Michelle Personick, Ph.D. as an Associate Professor of Chemistry. Prof.
Congratulations to Chang Liu in the Sen Zhang lab for being awarded a prestigious Jefferson Dissertation Year Fellowship from Jefferson Scholars Fo
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By Anna Davis
UVA ChemSciComm
Rebecca McCloud of the Hsu Lab has been awarded the Adam Ritchie Outstanding Graduate Student for 2019.
Ph.D. student Kamil Stelmach has received a seed grant from NASA’s SCoPE team.
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.
Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry
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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
Congratulations to Huiyuan Zhu, who has been selected to attend the 2024 Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposia by the National Academy of Sciences.
Professor Michelle Personick was recently awarded seed funding from the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office.
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.
UVa Assistant Professor of Chemistry Kateri DuBay has been selected as a winner of the 2022 OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty award.
Jacob Walley, of the Gilliard Group, has been named the 2020 Adam Ritchie Outstanding Graduate Student in Chemistry. This award was established in
Postdoctoral researcher R. Justin Grams, Ph.D., has received a 2022 UVA Cancer Center Trainee Award.
Two University of Virginia Chemistry graduate students have just been awarded 2021 Presidential Fellowships for Collaborative Neuroscience.
The Pires Lab has recently been granted an award from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.
Karl Westendorff, an Engineering student who does research with Dean Harman’s group has won a scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
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Sophie Cook
DEI Journal Club Co-Leader
Primary School Student. When you have a cold and want to feel better, you are given cold medicine.
Undergraduate/graduate student duo Katerina Morgaenko and Morgan-Elizabeth McKnight have been awarded a DoubleHoo Research Grant.
Congratulations to Ken Hsu and his graduate student, Myungsun Shin.
Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry
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Jacob Walley ACS-DIC – Young Investigator Symposium Award
PhD candidate Monika Wieliniec receives the Representative of the Ye
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UVA ChemSciComm
2023 DEI Project Leader Recognition Highlight
By Melissa Leyden and Hannah Musgrove
UVA ChemSciComm
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
Getting to Know UVA Chemistry’s Undergraduate Researchers – Part 1
By Amelia Reid, UVA ChemSciComm
Congratulations to our outstanding students for recieving a Chemistry Fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year.
By Rob Dyer
UVA ChemSciComm
NIH awards Professor Harman $2.1 M (MIRA) to support his group's research program on dearomatization
The goal of the awarded research program is to develop new classes of chemical compounds to be screened for efficacy against various diseases.
Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry
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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
The Chemistry department will welcome two new faculty members to the department for the Spring 2025 semester.
By Delaney Hammond
Congratulations to Michael Hilinski and Ku-Lung (Ken) Hsu as they have been promoted to Associate Professor without Term.
Professor Marcos Pires has recently earned two grants from the National Institutes of Health.
The University of Virginia Chemistry Department has learned it will be awarded a Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Fou
UVa Chemistry Assistant Professor Robert Gilliard has been named a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow.
University of Virginia students interested in organic chemistry this semester may have noticed two professors with the same last name on the course
Graduate students Frederick Brøndsted and Emma Cook have each been awarded a Jefferson Scholars Foundation Dissertation Year Fellowship.
“CAREER: Next-Gen Flow Cytometry - A New Approach to Cell Heterogeneity." Congratulations Ken!
Chemistry Professor Mike Hilinski has been awarded a R35 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Services.
The University of Virginia Chemistry Department is pleased to announce Leah Dignan as the 2021 recipient of the Sidney M.
Mélisse Bonfand-Caldeira was chosen as the second place winner for the 2024 postdoctoral research symposium lightning talk.
UVA Chemistry annually honors our best graduate teaching assistants with the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awards.
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.
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Ian Winchester
GSAS Council Representative
Congratulations to W. Dean Harman who has been promoted to a chaired professor. Effective January 10, 2023, Prof. Harman will be the William R.
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!
Research Scientist Yoojin Lee, PhD of the Pompano Lab has been awarded an NIH Career Re-Entry Fellowship. The Fellowship will support her work buil
Getting to know the staff of UVA Chemistry
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The University of Virginia’s Rotunda still has its secrets, as conservators are discovering amid the building’s ongoing two-year renovation.
By Delaney Hammond
Graduate student Erin Lawrence was selected for the Biotechnology Training Grant.
On April 14, 2022 the Chemistry Department held the 3rd Year Graduate Student Poster Session and the winners were announced.
Ni Nanoparticle-catalyzed CO2 Methanation
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Rising 5th year students
First place (tie): Kelsie Wentz & Mark Bernard
Second place: Brianna Dalesandro
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Hannah Musgrove - 2023 Sidney Hecht Fellow
This semester, Dr. B. Jill Venton was named the Thomas Jefferson Professor of Chemistry.
By Anna Davis, UVA ChemSciComm
Chemistry students Alysha Johnson and Jordan Baker have received awards from the ACS Scholars Program.
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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Graduate student Jherian Mitchell-Jones has been selected as a 2023 Institutionally Supported Scholar by the Southern Regional Education Board.
The research groups of UVa Chemistry Professors Sen Zhang and T. Brent Gunnoe have recently published a paper in Nature Catalysis.
This program seeks to recruit and support postdoctoral scholars who will contribute to advancing STEM diversity, equity and inclusion in their jou
My Research for Five Levels of Understanding
By Sadie Kiendzior, UVA ChemSciComm
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has announced the selection of 19 outstanding early-career faculty as 2025 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
Pumidech “Max” Puthongkham has been named a 2019 Sidney M. Hecht Graduate Fellow.
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Graduate student Julia McAfee, a member of the Stains Lab, was awarded an Eli Lilly Travel Award by the American Chemical Society’s Women
The UVA Chemistry Department has awarded scholarships from two endowded funds.
It has been a good couple of months for UVa Chemistry graduate student Bukuru Anaclet.
The study of polymers, molecular structures composed of thousands of atoms, may be one of the fastest growing fields in science today.
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Graduate Student Social Events During Lockdown: Building Connections Virtually
Two fellowships have been awarded to two Chemistry Graduate Students.
Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry
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Robert Gilliard and his group are featured in the C&EN Magazine article, "Beryllium Radical Cation Isolated." The article states that
Getting to Know the Staff of UVA Chemistry
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Charlie Machan has been awarded his first NSF Grant “Developing Homogeneous Mn Catalyst Systems for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction”.
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Left to right: Jill Venton, Chair; Ji Zhang, Julie Laudenschlager, Mark Bernard, Pumidech Puthonkham, Grayson Johnson, Ana Geer, Megan Catterton, L
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UVA ChemSciComm
