Department News
Donna Huryn to Join Penn Chemistry
Apr 28, 2023
Dr. Donna Huryn, a graduate of the Penn Chemistry doctoral program, will be returning to Penn this summer as a full-time Professor of Practice. These roles were introduced at Penn to allow he…
Read MoreJohn G. Miller Award Announced
Apr 28, 2023
The highest honor that the Chemistry Department bestows on a graduating PhD student is the John G. Miller Award, which honors the most outstanding doctoral thesis in Chemistry every year. John Miller…
Read MoreMore Penn Chemistry Teaching Honors Awarded
Apr 28, 2023
Penn Chemistry personnel were lauded with a series of end of academic year honors this month. Lecturer Anthony Cirri has received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated Faculty…
Read MorePenn Chemistry Students Honored by NSF
Mar 31, 2023
Several Penn Chemistry students have been honored with National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Christian Gonzalez (Murray group), Aaliyah Khan (Rappe), Mika Maenaga (Goldberg), and…
Read MorePenn Chemistry Hires Andrew Zahrt
Mar 31, 2023
Dr. Andrew Zahrt, currently a postdoctoral associate with Prof. Klavs F. Jensen at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will join the Penn Chemistry Department as an Assistant Professor this…
Read MorePenn Chemistry Faculty Honored for Teaching
Mar 31, 2023
Two of our faculty have been recognized by Penn for their commitment to excellence in teaching. Professor Marisa Kozlowski will receive the Provost Award for PhD Teaching and Mentoring. Professor E…
Read MoreDirk Trauner Honored in Denmark
Feb 15, 2023
Dirk Trauner, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor & George A. Weiss University Professor, has been named an Honorary Skou Professor of Pharmacology and Biomedicine through 2027 at Aarhus…
Read MoreEric Schelter Receives Tantalum Prize
Oct 22, 2022
Prof. Eric Schelter has been awarded the 2022 Anders Gustaf Ekeberg Tantalum Prize. Eric accepted the prize on behalf of his research team in Geneva. The prize is named after the discoverer of…
Read MoreChemistry Faculty Honored by AAAS
Feb 6, 2023
Professor Eric Schelter and Adjunct Professor Donna Huryn were both named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Formed in 1848, the AAAS is the world's largest…
Read MoreDirk Trauner Joins Penn
Jul 1, 2022
Dirk Trauner has joined Penn as a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor, with joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry in the School of Arts & Sciences and the Department of…
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Research Highlights
Tom Mallouk
Tom Mallouk and his research group have developed microscale "rockets" powered by acoustic waves and an onboard bubble motor that may one day navigate through landscapes of cells and blood vessels inside the human body. Read all about this exciting technology at the CBC Radio website.
Andrew Rappe
A new paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society authored by Chemistry Professor Andrew Rappe and his research group describes a new approach for synthesizing organic “Legos” that can be easily connected to make new materials. This framework creates structures that are lightweight,…
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