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May 2015
Chemistry PhD candidate, Kei Fuchigami, received the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence for her “exemplary performance in the instruction of Arts & Sciences undergraduates.”
Dr. Megan Daschbach, General Chemistry Lecturer and Director of the Chemistry PLTL Program, was selected by the First Year Center as the recipient of the Delores K. Kennedy Award.
Profs. John Bleeke (Chemistry) and Marcus Foston (Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering) received a grant to study “Transition Metal Complexes for Lignin Depolymerization” from I-CARES (...
Dr. Steve Kinsley was selected as a winner of the 2014-2015 James E. McLeod Faculty Recognition Award, based on the nomination letters from a couple of his students.
April 2015
Dewey Holten and a small team of scientists can synthesize molecules that will absorb any color of sunlight, from the oranges through the near-infrared, greatly expanding the palette of light-...
Christine Kirmaier and Dewey Holten discuss their decades of partnered research and share the 3D protein model that caught the eye of a Nobel Prize Winner.
February 2015
The National Research Council, chaired by Washington University Provost and Chemistry Professor Holden Thorp, has produced a report titled “Safe Science: Promoting a Culture of Safety in Academic...
Dr. Brian Marsden will join the Chemistry Department as our NMR & EPR Facility Manager in mid-March.
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at Washington University in St. Louis has announced the eight winners of the 2014 University Research Strategic Alliance (URSA) grants.
January 2015
The Department of Chemistry will have its annual EHS training session on Friday, February 20 from 2 – 4 pm in Lab Sciences 300.
Dr. André d’Avignon will retire in early January 2015. He has worked in the Chemistry Department since 1984, managing the High Resolution NMR Facility.
October 2014
Phyllis Noelken, Chemistry’s Grants and Accounts Specialist, plans to retire in early November 2014. She has worked in the Chemistry Department since 2000, but has been an employee of Washington...
Maria Guzman will join the Chemistry Department on October 13, 2014, as our new Grants and Accounts Specialist. Maria transfers from the Cardiovascular Division of the Wash U Med School and is...
September 2014
Dr. Gabriela Szteinberg joins the Chemistry Department as the Project Coordinator for the General Chemistry Supplemental Program this Fall.
August 2014
Parker, an administrative assistant in the Department of Chemistry, was nominated by eight members of the Department of Chemistry.
Dr. Kit Mao, our General Chemistry Laboratory Director and Senior Lecturer, has been teaching the Chem 151/152 course sequence for more than a decade in our department.
Yesterday, the National Research Council released an important report, ”Safe Science: Promoting a Culture of Safety in Academic Chemical Research,” authored by a committee chaired by Provost H....
July 2014
New graduate of our PhD program, Dr. Jia Luo, will join the Chem 111/112 instructor team in August 2014 as our new General Chemistry Lecturer and Director of the General Chemistry Transition Program...
Erica Majumder, graduate student in Prof. Bob Blankenship’s lab, was selected as a winner of a Travel Grant from the American Chemical Society International Office to attend the International...
June 2014
By exploiting bacterial systems for iron scavenging, Timothy Wencewicz hopes to rescue antibiotics rendered useless by resistance