Department of Chemistry News


July 18, 2011

UW Chemistry Faculty Lead UW to Top Citation Impact in Materials Science

The University of Washington led the world in impact of publications in materials science research during the period 2001-2011 according to a recent report by Thomson-Reuters.


March 13, 2010

Andrew Boydston to join faculty as Assistant Professor

Boydston’s research focuses on the design, synthesis, and application of functional organic materials and the development of new reaction methodology.


Champak Chatterjee to join faculty as Assistant Professor

Chatterjee’s research explores the mechanisms underlying the regulation of protein function by ubiquitin-like proteins.


David Masiello to join faculty as Assistant Professor

Masiello’s research focuses on the fundamental theory of plasmon-enhanced molecular processes relating to solar energy conversion.


December 2, 2009

Larry Dalton Named ACS Fellow

Professor Larry Dalton has been selected to be an ACS Fellow – a member of the very first class of fellows to be chosen by the American Chemical Society.


August 28, 2009

Munira Khalil receives NSF CAREER Award

Assistant Professor Munira Khalil has received a 2009 CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Award from the National Science Foundation.


July 10, 2009

Xiaosong Li receives NSF CAREER Award

Li receives a 2009 NSF CAREER Award.


June 22, 2009

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.


Sarah Keller promoted to Full Professor

Keller studies the inhomogeneous distributions of lipids within membranes that model cell membranes.


June 12, 2009

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.



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