ASMS Research Awards promote the research of the academic scientists within the first four years of joining the tenure track or research faculty of a North American University at the time the award is conferred. The awards, in the amount of $35,000 for the recipient’s proposed research, are fully funded by Bruker, Thermo Fisher Scientific, […]
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s Jessica Swanson is among 19 outstanding teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy named recipients of Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s 2024 Cottrell Scholar Awards. Each award is $120,000. Recipients are chosen through a rigorous peer-review process of applications from a wide variety of public and private research universities and primarily undergraduate institutions in the […]
Read MoreWe are proud to annouce that Aria Ballance was the recipient of the 2024 Curie Club Outreach Award! This award will fund ($100-1,000) graduate students’ projects to bring chemistry to the community. As chemistry graduate students, we are passionate about this cool science, but sometimes, we fall short when engaging with the public. Think about […]
Read MoreMatthew Sigman, Distinguished Professor & Peter J. Christine S. Stang Presidential Endowed Chair of Chemistry with the University of Utah has been awarded the 2023 ACS Utah Outstanding Chemist Award. In 1958, the Salt Lake Section of the ACS established the Utah Award to honor Utah’s chemistry community. The awards recognize outstanding contributions to research, […]
Read MoreLillee Casselman, an undergraduate student in the Saouma Group here at the U, was selected as the sole recipient for the undergraduate research award by the ACS division of inorganic chemistry. A little bit about Lillee and her project: “I started working in the Saouma Group spring 2021 and have been doing research with the […]
Read MoreAric Potter, an undergraduate student in the Harris lab, wins an EAS Undergraduate Student Research Award at the Eastern Analytical Symposium in Plainsboro, NJ! Congratulations Aric!
Read MoreThis award will fund ($100-1,000) graduate students’ projects to bring chemistry to the community. As chemistry graduate students, we are passionate about this cool science, but sometimes, we fall short when engaging with the public. Think about ideas to show people how fun and exciting Chemistry is. This is your chance to make them real, […]
Read MoreU Chemistry Distinguished Alumni Awards 2023 The Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah established the Distinguished Chemistry Alumni Awards in 2011 to recognize and honor our most prominent and successful alumni. We celebrated four of our outstanding alumni on October 23 and 24 in the Department of Chemistry. The awardees held seminars and […]
Read MoreThe 2023 SAS Undergraduate Award in Applied Spectroscopy was given to Clista Galecki, a senior undergraduate student working in the Harris Lab. The award was in recognition of Clista’s outstanding research in developing Raman spectroscopy to characterize antibody-ligand association at supported phospholipid bilayers. It is the highest honor for an undergraduate student awarded by the […]
Read MoreProfessor of Chemistry and Associate Dean of Science, Vahe Bandarian, was selected as one of the 2023 ACS fellows. Vahe Bandarian is a biological chemistry Professor and has been at University of Utah since 2015. He graduated with his B.S. at California State University-Los Angeles in 1992, went on to get his Ph.D. at the […]
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