Department News
Penn Chemistry Research Resumption Guidelines
Jun 16, 2020
The School of Arts & Sciences approved Phase I research resumption on June 8, 2020. The Department Reopening Process Guidelines of the Department of Chemistry of the University of Pennsylvania…
Read MoreStatement on Recent Tragic Events
Jun 4, 2020
Dear Members of the Penn Chemistry Community, In light of the most recent tragic acts of violence against Black persons, I am writing to denounce racial injustice and reaffirm our steadfast…
Read MoreGraduate Students Receives SAS Teaching Awards
Apr 24, 2020
Zach Zimmerman of the Baumgart Group has been selected to receive a School of Arts and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students for the 2019-2020 academic year. These…
Read MoreProf. Donald Fitts Passes Away
Apr 2, 2020
Dr. Donald D. Fitts, Professor of Physical Chemistry, died on March 25, 2020 at the age of 87. Born on September 3, 1932, in Concord, NH, the only child of Russell P. Fitts and Elisabeth Y. Reille…
Read MoreFour Graduate Students Receive NSFGRP Awards
Apr 2, 2020
Four of our graduate students have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Olivia Werba (Lester/Subotnik groups), Sam Giannakoulias (Petersson group),…
Read MorePenn Chemistry Coronavirus Response
Mar 16, 2020
Effective 5:00pm on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, Penn Chemistry is officially shut down. Please ensure that everything in your lab is shut down — turn your instrumentation off, unplug your hot plates and…
Read MoreMonica E. McCallum Joining Penn Chemistry
Feb 24, 2020
Dr. Monica McCallum, currently a postdoctoral associate at Harvard University, will be joining the faculty of Penn Chemistry in 2021. Dr. McCallum attended the University of California, Irvine,…
Read MorePosition opening: High Throughput Facility Director
Dec 17, 2019
The University of Pennsylvania is seeking a Director of High Throughput Experimentation (HTE) responsible for designing and developing reactions for micro-scale parallel reaction optimization and…
Read MoreAbe Nitzan and Dan Mindiola Receive ACS Awards
Aug 28, 2019
Donner Professor Abraham Nitzan will receive the ACS Award in Theoretical Chemistry. Brush Family Professor Daniel Mindiola will receive the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry (…
Read MoreGraduate Students Honored by NSF
Apr 10, 2019
Vincent Esposito, a second-year graduate student in the Lester/Francisco groups, has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Walter Johnsen of the Mallouk…
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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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