Department of Chemistry News


May 30, 2017

Dan Fu receives a 2017 Beckman Young Investigator Award

Assistant Professor Dan Fu is one of eight recipients of a 2017 Beckman Young Investigator Award.


Ashleigh Theberge and Erwin Berthier receive Kavli Microbiome award

Assistant Professor Ashleigh Theberge and Affiliate Assistant Professor Erwin Berthier were awarded a Kavli Microbiome Ideas Challenge grant, which supports novel, cross-cutting tools and methods in the field of microbiome research.


May 26, 2017

Brandi Cossairt named a 2017 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

Assistant Professor Brandi Cossairt has been named a 2017 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar by The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.


April 25, 2017

UW Chemistry to establish a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship thanks to $12 million commitment from professor emeritus Larry Dalton and Nicole Boand

Larry Dalton and his wife, Nicole Boand, have committed $12 million to the UW Department of Chemistry to establish the Dalton Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemistry.


Karen Goldberg named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Karen Goldberg, Professor and Nicole A. Boand Endowed Chair in Chemistry, is one of 228 new members named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this year.


April 24, 2017

Michael Gelb receives the 2017 University Faculty Lecture Award

The University of Washington has honored Michael Gelb, Professor and Boris and Barbara L. Weinstein Endowed Chair in Chemistry, with the 2017 University Faculty Lecture Award.


March 14, 2017

Matt Bush to receive the 2017 Arthur F. Findeis Award

Assistant Professor Matt Bush will receive the 2017 Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist.


David Ginger receives 2017 Cottrell Scholars TREE Award

David Ginger, Alvin L. & Verla R. Kwiram Endowed Professor of Chemistry and Associate Director of the UW Clean Energy Institute, has received the 2017 TREE Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.


December 2, 2016

Recent work by Anne McCoy and coworkers published in Science

Chemistry professor Anne McCoy and her team, along with collaborators at Yale, Pittsburgh, and Leipzig, have shown how water molecules pass along excess charge and, in the process, conduct electricity. The work was published recently in the journal Science.


November 9, 2016

Recent work by David Masiello and coworkers published in Nature Photonics

Recent work by Associate Professor David Masiello and colleagues was highlighted in an article in Nature Photonics on November 7. The research was also highlighted in Chemical & Engineering News.



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