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2017 Distinguished Alumni, New Faculty, Awards, & Honoring Edward M. Eyring

Carlos M. Bowman received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Utah in...

Peter Armentrout Takes Charge ~ 2000 to 2001

In the latter half of the year 2000, Professor Peter B. Armentrout was appointed University...

The Salt Lake Winter Olympics ~ 2002 to 2003

In 2002, the Salt Lake Winter Olympics played a dominating role in the first three...

Peter Armentrout Creates Monthly Brown Bag Lunch Tradition ~ 2003 to 2004

One of the important administrative innovations of Peter Armentrout’s tour as Department Chair was the...

The Emphasis on Biochemistry Grows ~ 2004

The Spring 2004 issue of the U. of Utah Department of Chemistry “Alumni Newsletter” reported...

Faraday Christmas Lecture ~ 2005

Way back in December of 1981, Professors Ron Ragsdale and Jerry Driscoll started their popular...

How Good is the U. of U. Chemistry Department? ~ 2005 to 2006

Our friends with a taste for quantitative information sometimes ask: “How ‘good’ is the University...

Robert Walter Perry ~ 2006

Robert Walter Parry 10/1/1917 ~ 12/1/2006 Robert W. Parry, 89, passed away December 1, 2006...

The Spring 2007 Chemistry Department Newsletter

Peter Armentrout announced that he would be succeeded as Department Chair by Henry White. He...

Gauss House is renamed after David M. Grant ~ 2006 to 2009

Chemistry Faculty News in the Spring 2007 Alumni Newsletter Distinguished Prof. David M. Grant was...

2009 ~ 2011 NIH Awards Funds for an Enlarged Chemistry Building

In the spring of 2009, the University was notified that $8M from the NIH had...

2011 ~ Peter Stand and the Nation Medal of Science

In 2011, Peter Stang was awarded the National Medal of Science “for his creative contributions...

2012 Distinguished Alumni & Faculty Remembrance

Marilyn Alder Marquis received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Utah, went...

2013 Distinguished Alumni, Faculty Achievements & the start of the Robert W. Perry Lectureship

Richard D. Smith completed his doctorate degree under Jean Futrell in 1975. He is the...

2014 Distinguished Alumni, Awards, & establishment of the Stang-Burrows-Sessler Lectureship

Professor David Clemmer received his Ph.D. at the University of Utah in 1992. He spent...

2015 Distinguished Alumni & all things Curie Club

Professor Joseph A. Gardella, Jr. received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at the University of...

2016 Distinguished Alumni, Research, & Cynthia Burrow's Governor's Medal for Science and Technology

Sung Wan Kim received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry with Professor Henry Eyring in 1969....

2018 Distinguished Alumni, Endowed Chairs, and Alumni News

Joseph Madsen received his undergraduate degree from the University of Utah in 1976. He then...

2019 Distinguished Alumni & Gina Frey and Jessica Swanson joining the U!

Kurt Zilm completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Utah in 1981. Now...

2019 ~ Teaching Future Chemists

Student success has a lot to do with effective teaching and departmental policies that empower...

2019 ~ Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Chemistry

As Professor Frey made her way through her own chemistry education, she realized that although...

2019 ~ Assistant Professor Jessica Swanson

Mapping the Kinetic Landscape of Biomolecular Processes Understanding biomolecular processes at the molecular level, which...

2019 ~ About the ACS Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship (Sigal Fellowship) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is...

2020 - COVID-19

Our students left for spring break early in March, just as all of us began...

1991 ~ 2020 Past Walling Award Recipients

1991 recipient: Merritt B. Andrus, Professor of Chemistry, Brigham Young University The last person to...

2020 Distinguished Alumni

Rik R. Tykwinskiearned his PhD from the University of Utah with Peter Stang in 1994....

2021 Gary E. Keck Online Reunion

It’s been seven years since the Kecklings gathered together, and as a close-knit group, a...

2021 - Bouncing back from COVID-19

The year 2021 started off on a tragic note. Edward (Ted) M. Eyring, who devoted...

2022 Valeria Molinero Elected to the Nation Academy of Sciences

Finally, with COVID-19 on the downfall our Department was slowly returning back to normal. 2022...

2023 Catalyst & Keck Foundation Award

Zlatko Bačić, is a professor of chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, NYU. Zlatko Bačić...