Chemistry News & Feature Stories
Allison Wong recognized as 2025 CAS Future Leader
Fifth-year PhD student Allison Wong was recently selected to participate in the 2025 Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Future Leaders program.
Professor Aaron Massari earns 2025 Provost’s Unit Service Award
The award recognizes exceptional service that has strengthened the functioning and climate of our department.
Gold(y) star staff: Dunlap and Geisbauer earn inaugural Chemistry Outstanding Staff Award
Associate Administrator Mollie Dunlap and Maintenance Carpenter Ben Geisbauer have been named the first recipients of the new Chemistry Recognizing Outstanding Staff Award.
Luc Wetherbee earns NSF Circularity Impact Program Fellowship
The Circularity Impact Program allows trainees to deeply explore sustainability problems and remediations in public policy, science, and engineering.
Professor Erin Carlson named Distinguished McKnight University Professor
The award recognizes outstanding faculty members who have recently achieved full professor status.
Assistant Professor Jessica Lamb named McKnight Land-Grant Professor
The award aims to support highly-promising junior faculty members who have the potential to make significant contributions to their departments and to their fields of study.
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus C. Alden Mead (1932 – 2025)
The Department of Chemistry mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus C. Alden Mead, who passed away on February 6th, 2025.
Boiteau and Roberts receive prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for early-career researchers
Rene Boiteau and Courtney Roberts are two of only 126 early-career researchers who will receive a prestigious 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship.
Haynes group patents new method to fight global food insecurity
Novel nanoparticle research from the Haynes group aims to fight global food insecurity by boosting the defenses of food-producing plants.