Professors Jose Rodriguez and Jorge Torres are recognized in Cell Press’ list of 100 inspiring Hispanic/Latinx scientists in America. Cell Mentor, an online resource from Cell Press and Cell Signaling Technology, has compiled the list in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month. According to the announcement, the list – selected based on scholarly achievements, mentoring excellence, […]

The department is seeking outstanding candidates for tenure–track or tenured faculty positions at the level of Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor.  We welcome candidates whose experience in teaching, research, or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and excellence. The successful applicants will be expected to develop strong and creative […]

In Chemical & Engineering News article, Professor Neil Garg discusses mentoring with columnist and Emory chemistry professor Jen Heemstra. Garg is the inaugural holder of the Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair in Chemistry & Biochemistry and currently serves as Department Chair.  From Chemical & Engineering News (by Jen Heemstra and Neil Garg): Putting mentoring first […]

We are sad to report that UCLA cosmochemist Emeritus Professor John Wasson passed away peacefully at the age of 86 on September 7. Wasson was a professor of geochemistry and chemistry in the UCLA College. From UCLA Newsroom (by John Harlow): In memoriam: John Wasson, 86, cosmochemist and co-creator the UCLA Meteorite Collection John Wasson, a […]

Professor Chong Liu receives a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA or R35) award from the NIH/NIGMS. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded Liu, an assistant professor of chemistry, $1.9 million over five years to work on electrochemically controlled microbial communities.  Inorganic nanomaterials […]

In the journal Nature, the Garg and Houk groups report the use of unusual strained intermediates in asymmetric catalysis, work highlighted in C&EN.  “Intercepting fleeting cyclic allenes with asymmetric nickel catalysis”, was published in the August 26, 2020 issue of Nature. The discoveries were made by experimentalists in Professor Neil Garg’s lab, former and current graduate students […]

Stony Brook professor Nancy Goroff (PhD ’94), the Democratic nominee for Congress in New York’s First Congressional District, is profiled in C&EN.  Professor Nancy Goroff received a Ph.D. in chemistry at UCLA in 1994 under the direction of Professor François Diederich. If she wins in November, she will be the first woman with a natural sciences […]

Northwestern Professor Jiaxing Huang (PhD ’04, Kaner group) named inaugural Editor-in-Chief of new ACS journal Accounts of Materials Research.  The new journal, which launched in partnership between ACS Publications and ShanghaiTech University, will publish short reviews on basic research and applications in all areas of materials science and engineering. A professor of materials science in […]