Chemistry News & Feature Stories
Chemistry Teaching Laboratory Staff recognized with CSE Outstanding Service Award
Congratulations Diana Mayweather, Laura Kundel, Kylie Adams, Arceus Pogany, Patrick Schildt, Joshua Denzer, Aminata Dotson, and Chellina Angok!
2025 Chicago Regional Inorganic Colloquium recap
The 2025 Chicago Regional Inorganic Colloquium (CRIC-2025) was hosted at the University of Minnesota in early October.
Porous materials: powering the future of energy technologies
Published in Science on October 30, 2025, an international team of chemists explores the future of efficient energy advancements.
Bright blue breakthrough: Roberts and Boyn groups publish novel chemical process in Nature
The team has created a new, modern tool to make the process of creating pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals faster, cost-effective, and energy-efficient.
Professor J. Ilja Siepmann named inaugural Thomas Allen Gregory Chair in Physical Chemistry
Siepmann, a member of the UMN Chemistry faculty since 1994, leads a research program at the leading edge of theoretical physical chemistry.
Dr. Joseph Dalluge receives Research Technical Staff Award
The Department of Chemistry’s Mass Spectrometry Laboratory Director, Dr. Joseph Dalluge, was named one of ten awardees.
UMN research team discovers new therapy potential for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Regents Professor Timothy Lodge of the Department of Chemistry is a co-author on the paper, published in PNAS.
Introducing the Wayland E. Noland Organic Chemistry Floor at Fraser Hall
The Wayland E. Noland Organic Chemistry Floor is home to three state-of-the-art organic chemistry laboratories for undergraduate teaching.
Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Grant renewed with National Institutes of Health funding
CBITG isn’t just one of the longest-running student training grants at the University of Minnesota – it’s one of the longest-running training grants in the nation.