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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Each year we recognize our undergraduate students with departmental awards for their accomplishments in academics and in research. The 2020 Chemistry & Biochemistry Undergraduate Departmental Awards have been announced. Congratulations […]