Department of Chemistry News

March 14, 2017

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.


March 7, 2017

Alexandra Velian to join faculty

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Alexandra Velian to the Department of Chemistry. Her program will focus on synthetic strategies to access new generations of molecular and heterogeneous inorganic catalysts and electronic materials.


February 23, 2017

Champak Chatterjee promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

The Department of Chemistry congratulates Champak Chatterjee on his promotion to associate professor with tenure, effective Autumn 2017.


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.


October 18, 2016

Open tenure-line faculty position in inorganic chemistry

The Department of Chemistry is accepting applications for a tenure-line faculty position in inorganic chemistry to start in Autumn 2017.


October 10, 2016

Sotiris Xantheas to join faculty

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Sotiris Xantheas to the Department of Chemistry. His research uses advanced theoretical methods and computational techniques to explore key problems related to the molecular science of aqueous systems.


September 26, 2016

Sarah Keller wins 2017 Avanti Award in Lipids

Professor Sarah Keller will receive the prestigious Avanti Award in Lipids at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.


July 15, 2016

Nature Methods cover article details refined, accessible technique for expansion microscopy

Assistant Professor Joshua Vaughan and his UW co-workers recently published an improved technique for expansion microscopy, in a report featured on the cover of Nature Methods.


May 13, 2016

AJ Boydston named a 2016 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

Assistant Professor AJ Boydston has been named a 2016 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar by The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.


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