March 15, 2023 Clifton Sanders was the speaker for the second Hugo Rossi seminar this year. This lecture series is designed to bring to the university, faculty whose scholarly pursuits focus on STEM education. Clifton, a PhD graduate from Chemistry, the current Provost of Salt Lake Community College, and a University of Utah Distinguished Alumnus, […]
Read MoreAfter earning an A. B. (1951) degree in chemistry from Harvard and a Ph. D. (1954) in physical chemistry from Berkeley, Frank served as an Instructor in Chemistry at Harvard (1953-56), an Assistant Prof. of Chemistry at Berkeley (1956-59), and an Assistant and Associate Professor of Chemistry at Stanford (1959-1968) before joining the University of […]
Read MoreBorn 6 May 1943 in Detroit, Michigan Passed away 30 November 2022 in Salt Lake City, Utah (age 79) Professor Laya Kesner started as a graduate student at Utah in 1967 and completed a Ph.D. working on the then-new method of field-flow fractionation under the direction of Professor J. Calvin Giddings in 1974. After a […]
Read MoreWe are sad to report the news that our Emeritus Faculty colleague, Wesley G. Bentrude, passed away on October 4. Prior to joining the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at Utah in 1964, Wes earned a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, spent two years working as a Research Chemist at Celanese, followed […]
Read MoreU Department of Chemistry October 8, 2022 Thatcher Building for Biological and Biophysical Chemistry Following on the success of bringing back the in-person semiannual High School Chemistry Teachers’ Workshop last spring, we held the fall High School Chemistry Teachers’ Workshop on Saturday, October 8 in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah. Organized […]
Read MoreFinally, after having to wait two years because of Covid, the semiannual high-school chemistry teachers’ workshop was held on Saturday, April 30 in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah. Organized by Michael Morse, the Saturday morning event brought together 45 high-school chemistry teachers from around the region, and several chemistry […]
Read MoreTHE FARADAY LECTURES CREATING HOLIDAY REACTIONS SINCE 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAi2EHHhmlc&t=1s Join chemistry professors Janis Louie and Tom Richmond as they perform an extraordinary series of chemical experiments that educate and entertain audiences of all ages. This year, the event will be held live via zoom and will feature friend of the chemistry department, Tom Thatcher. […]
Read MoreA lifetime of devotion to family church and science. Edward (Ted) Marcus Eyring died on February 20, 2021, he was born January 7, 1931 in Oakland California to Henry Eyring and Mildred Bennion Eyring. He grew up in Princeton, New Jersey where he was the only LDS student at Princeton high school, and where […]
Read MoreFriend of the department of chemistry, Lawrence Everett Thatcher 96, passed away on October 9, 2020, at the Grand Holladay assisted living center in Holladay, Utah. Lawrence was born on August 12, 1924, in Salt Lake City to Nathan Davis Thatcher and Carolyn Vernell Moody. Lawrence boyhood home was at 637 Douglas St. He had an […]
Read MoreNatascha Knowlton, the University of Utah’s beloved Chemistry Advisor, was recently diagnosed with aplastic anemia. Her body’s T-cells attacked her bone marrow, leaving her with no blood cells. Aplastic anemia is often caused by some external trigger–for Tascha, this was the pregnancy of her son. For the past 8 months, she has been dependent on […]
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