Photo Credit: Todd Anderson In a recently published paper in Nature Chemistry, In a recently published paper in Nature Chemistry, Kefu Wang and Ming Lee Tang of our department described a composite material consisting of extremely small silicon nanoparticles and an organic component capable of transforming lower-energy light into higher-energy light. Read here […]
Read MoreJeff Statler, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, spent the summer solstice assisting British particle physicists Brian Cox and his BBC filming crew in the high Uintah Mountains. The BBC is currently in Utah for the filming of a new series on our Solar System and its Planets. As you may know, Venus has a particularly […]
Read MoreProfessor Whittaker-Brooks participated in the Faculty Fellowship Program in Israel from May 27 – June 9. Prof. Whittaker-Brooks traveled throughout Israel, meeting Israeli professors from her respective discipline and with the same or similar research interests – all with the goal of developing collaborations, research projects, co-authoring articles, and establishing exchange programs between faculty and […]
Read MoreSince the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Lawrence and Henry Bragg in 1915, X-ray diffraction has played an important role in elucidating the structure of matter from diamonds to DNA to the ribosome. Two decades ago, collection and analysis of X-ray data for small molecules was often a multi-week process. However, the recent […]
Read MoreCall for abstract submissions for the 2023 Graduate Research Symposium which will take place on the week of March 20, 2023. Graduates and Undergraduates are welcome to apply! We wanted to remind you about the upcoming third annual Graduate Research Symposium, which is scheduled to take place from March 20th to March 24th, 2023. Abstracts […]
Read MoreMatt Sigman It has been a while since we published our last issue of the Catalyst. Many things have changed since then–we have new colleagues, lost some of our friends, weathered the complexity of the pandemic, and continued to build the department. What has remained the same is the underlying passion, drive, and excellence that […]
Read MoreResearchers in Matthew S. Sigman’s group at the University of Utah, K. N. Houk’s group at the University of California, Los Angeles and Hosea M. Nelson’s group at the California Institute of Technology have confined a vinyl carbocation within a bulky catalyst, and have now shown they can get it to insert itself into a […]
Read MoreEach year, Clarivate™ identifies the world’s most influential researchers ─ the select few who have been most frequently cited by their peers over the last decade. In 2022, fewer than 7,000, or about 0.1%, of the world’s researchers, in 21 research fields and across multiple fields, have earned this exclusive distinction. Peter Stang is among […]
Read MoreNancy Gray of Gordon Research Seminars delivered her seminar, The Power Hour, October 17th, 2022. The Power Hour is a forum for conversations about the barriers to inclusivity and addressing the challenges underrepresented groups face in achieving equity in science. The GRC Power Hour has been incredibly popular with both men and women, reflecting growing […]
Read MoreProf. Peter B. Armentrout received the 2021 ASMS John B. Fenn Award for a Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry. The award recognizes Peter’s development of techniques for determining accurate thermochemistry via the guided ion beam method, and software programs for statistically modeling product formation energy dependence. Thanks to these contributions, nearly 2500 distinct bond energies have […]
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