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September 30, 2013

Two Chemistry faculty elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences

Chemistry Professor Charles Campbell and Chemical Engineering Professor Sam Jenekhe are among the 25 new members elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing scientific achievements.


September 13, 2013

New research published in Nature explores organic solar cells

Professors David Ginger and Alex Jen, along with other researchers, have recently reported on the role of electron spin in creating efficient organic solar cells. Their findings were recently published in the journal Nature.


Karen Goldberg appointed as a UW Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellow

Karen Goldberg, Nicole A. Boand Endowed Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis, is one of eight UW professors appointed as Presidential Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows.


August 27, 2013

Exploring the origins of life

Sarah Keller and affiliate professor Roy Black have helped to unravel some of the mystery surrounding the origin of cells in Earth’s ancient oceans. Their work describes the unexpected interaction of the chemical components of RNA and fatty acids and their role in stabilizing the precursors to cellular membranes.


August 26, 2013

Charles Campbell is the recipient of the 2013 Robert Burwell Lectureship in Catalysis

Charles Camp­bell, Professor and B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Chair in Chemistry, is the recip­i­ent of the 2013 Robert Bur­well Lec­ture­ship in Catal­y­sis of the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety, spon­sored by John­son Matthey.


Matt Bush wins ASMS Research Award

The American Society for Mass Spectrometry has awarded Assistant Professor Matt Bush a research award in the amount of $35,000.


July 1, 2013

Gojko Lalic wins NSF CAREER Award

Assistant Professor Gojko Lalic has received a CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development) Award from the National Science Foundation.


Chemistry graduate students awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Five graduate students working with Department of Chemistry researchers have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.


May 31, 2013

Robert Synovec wins GCxGC Scientific Achievement Award

Professor Robert E. Synovec has been awarded the GCxGC Scientific Achievement Award.


May 28, 2013

Munira Khalil named a 2013 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

Assistant Professor Munira Khalil has been named a 2013 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar by The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.



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