Department of Chemistry
Munira Khalil receives NSF CAREER Award
Khalil receives a 2009 NSF CAREER Award. More...
Xiaosong Li receives NSF CAREER Award
Li receives a 2009 NSF CAREER Award. More...
Tomikazu Sasaki promoted to Full Professor
Sasaki develops multivalent carbohydrate ligands through a metal-assisted self-assembly process to study specific biomolecular recognitions behind medicinally important biological processes. More...
Sarah Keller promoted to Full Professor
Keller studies the inhomogeneous distributions of lipids within membranes that model cell membranes. More...
Kahr, Kaminsky, et al. determine structural origin of light polarizing properties of herapathite
In a recent paper in Science, a UW group led by Professor Bart Kahr and Research Associate Professor Werner Kaminsky report the atomic structure of herapathite, a historically important source of large aperture light polarizers whose optical properties have long eluded explanation. More...
Markus Raschke promoted to Associate Professor
Raschke's research focuses on the linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of surfaces and on the nanoscale. More...
Pradip Rathod receives Gates Foundation grant
Rathod's work to combat malaria is one of five UW projects to be funded by the new Grand Challenges Explorations in Global Health initiative. More...
Forrest Michael receives NSF CAREER Award
Michael is one of two Chemistry faculty to receive a 2008 NSF CAREER Award. More...
Markus Raschke receives NSF CAREER Award
Raschke is one of two faculty in Chemistry to receive a 2008 NSF CAREER Award. More...
David Ginger promoted to Associate Professor
Ginger's research focuses on the physical chemistry of nanostructured materials with potential applications in low cost photovoltaics (solar cells), energy efficient light-emitting diodes, and novel biosensors. More...
Daniel Gamelin promoted to Full Professor
Gamelin's research uses synthetic, spectroscopic, and magnetic experiments to advance the development of new multifunctional inorganic materials. More...
David Ginger wins 2008 ACS Unilever Award
The Unilever Award is presented by the Colloid and Surface Science Division of the ACS. More...
Bo Zhang to join faculty as Assistant Professor
Zhang's research focus is in the area of analytical chemistry and nanomaterials. More...
Gojko Lalic to join faculty as Assistant Professor
Lalic's research involves the development and detailed study of new transition metal-catalyzed transformations that will find application in organic synthesis. More...
Graduate student Alejandro Briseno receives multiple awards
Alex has recently received four different awards. More...
UW-developed newborn screening for lysosomal storage diseases to begin in Illinois
The State of Illinois now requires infants to be screened for five different disease-related cellular enzymes using technology developed by UW faculty. More...
Munira Khalil joins faculty as Assistant Professor
Khalil's research focuses on the ultrafast structural dynamics of light-driven chemical and biological processes in solution. More...
Munira Khalil receives Dreyfus New Faculty Award
Khalil receives one of eleven Dreyfus New Faculty Awards given out nationally in 2007. More...
Rob Synovec appointed CPAC Faculty Director
Synovec, whose research focuses on the studies and applications of separation science, is the new Faculty Director of the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry. More...
Rob Synovec succeeds Heinekey as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Heinekey steps down after a decade of service as Associate Chair. More...
Daniel Chiu receives Life Sciences Discovery Fund Grant
Chiu receives one of the first six grants awarded by the LSDF, receiving $760,000 to fund his breast cancer research. More...
Alvin Kwiram receives Hopkins Faculty Award
Kwiram is the fourth recipient of the Hopkins Award, and will present a seminar in 2008. More...
CENTC awarded $15M NSF grant
CENTC is the NSF-funded Chemical Bonding Center based at UW, and is the only Center of its kind to receive Phase II funding. More...
Daniel Chiu receives National Fresenius Award
Chiu recognized as one of the top young faculty in pure and applied chemistry in the nation. More...
David Ginger receives Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
Ginger awarded one of fifteen Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards given out nationally in 2007. More...
Pradip Rathod and research team receive MMV grant
Professor Pradipsinh Rathod's team will receive a Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) award. More...
Mel Koch receives 2007 IFPAC Award
Mel Koch, CPAC Executive Director of CPAC, recognized by international community in process analytics. More...
Michael Gelb receives NIH MERIT Award
Gelb's research is in the area of medicinal enzymology, and the funding will support his work with phospholipase A2. More...
David Ginger receives Sloan Research Fellowship
Ginger one of two UW faculty to receive prestigious fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. More...
Bagley Hall Renovations
$10+ million Bagley Hall renovations will begin in February. Construction is projected to be on-going until early Fall Quarter. More...
Markus Raschke joins faculty as Assistant Professor
Raschke's research focuses on the development of nano-optical spectroscopies that enable both nanometer spatial and femosecond temporal resolution. More...
Charles Campbell receives Hopkins Faculty Award
Campbell recognized by the Department of Chemistry for his outstanding professional service. More...
Daniel Chiu promoted to Full Professor
Chiu's research focuses on the development of new tools combining ultrasensitive laser-based detection and manipulation methodologies with micro- and nano-fabrication techniques for interfacing with biological systems at the nanometer scale. More...
Charles Campbell receives ACS Arthur W. Adamson Award
Campbell recognized by the ACS for distinguished service in the advancement of surface chemistry. More...
UW Chemistry Third In The Nation
According to the NSF, UW Chemistry is third in the nation among departments of chemistry at public institutions by the measure of research expenditures from federal sources. More...
Dustin Maly joins faculty as Assistant Professor
Maly's research uses the tools of organic synthesis to develop new chemical tools to yield a greater quantitative understanding of cellular signaling. More...
Oleg Prezhdo promoted to Full Professor
Prezhdo's research uses theoretical and computational tools to obtain a theoretical understanding at the molecular level of chemical reactivity and energy transfer in complex condensed-phase chemical and biological environments. More...
Daniel Gamelin promoted to Associate Professor
Gamelin's research uses synthetic, spectroscopic, and magnetic experiments to advance the development of new multifunctional inorganic materials. More...
Gary Pedersen receives UW Distinguished Staff Award
Pedersen recognized for outstanding contributions to Chemistry and Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. More...
Sarah Keller receives UW Distinguished Teaching Award
Keller's dedication to teaching excellence recognized with University teaching award. More...
David Ginger named Cottrell Scholar
Ginger receives one of thirteen awards given out in 2006 to fund research projects of top young faculty nationwide. More...
UW research collaboration yields low-cost infant disease screening
Gelb and Turecek part of a team that has developed a panel of tandem mass spectrometry assays for early detection of several different lysosomal storage disorders. More...
Daniel Gamelin receives Sloan Research Fellowship
Gamelin recognized for his research using synthetic, spectroscopic, and magnetic experiments to advance the development of new multifunctional inorganic materials. More...
Phil Reid receives UW Distinguished Teaching Award
Reid's dedication to education has earned him a 2005 UW Distinguished Teaching Award. More...
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