Department of Chemistry News

June 23, 2011

Professor Rathod receives Medicines for Malaria Venture Project Award

Pradip Rathod, Professor of Chemistry and Adjunct Professor of Global Health, was recently awarded a Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) project award.


Former professor Younan Xia ranked one of top materials scientists

Younan Xia, UW Professor of Chemistry from 1997 to 2007, was recently ranked number four on The Times Higher Education list of “Top Materials Scientists of the Past Decade.”


April 21, 2011

Matthew Bush to join faculty

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Matthew Bush to the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Bush specializes in using mass spectrometry to characterize the structures of large biological assemblies.


Lutz Maibaum to join faculty

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Lutz Maibaum to the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Maibaum’s expertise lies in the theoretical and computational study of biophysical processes.


Stefan Stoll to join faculty

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Stefan Stoll to the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Stoll is a world-leading expert in the field of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy.


April 5, 2011

Daniel Chiu honored as one of UW’s most entrepreneurial faculty

Daniel Chiu is one of eight UW professors honored as the University’s most entrepreneurial faculty researchers, under the new Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows Program.


Samson Jenekhe ranked among most influential materials scientists

Samson Jenekhe, professor of chemistry and chemical engineering, ranks as the world’s 39th most influential materials scientist of the past decade.


March 22, 2011

CPAC Gets New Home

CPAC has a new administrative home and a new name – The Center for Process Analysis and Control.


Jen et al. describe nanoscale molecular control in Science

Professor Alex Jen and his co-workers have reported in Science the ability to foster an extremely unlikely chemical reaction between two molecules by tethering them into the correct orientation on a gold surface.


March 9, 2011

Spinning Quantum Dots reported in Nature Nanotechnology

Prof. Daniel Gamelin and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Stefan Ochsenbein report the first successful coherent impurity spin manipulation within colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (also known as quantum dots) in Nature Nanotechnology.


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