Department News
Penn 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…
Read MoreChemistry Graduate Student Honored by ACS
Mar 21, 2019
Lauren Grant, a fourth year graduate student in the Mindiola group, has been selected to receive a 2019 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award. Recipients of this award are…
Read MoreJessica Anna Named Sloan Fellow
Feb 19, 2019
Jessica Anna, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Elliman Faculty Fellow, has been named as a 2019 Sloan Research Fellow. These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 early-career scholars…
Read MoreChris Murray Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Feb 7, 2019
Chris Murray, Richard Perry University Professor of Chemistry & Materials Science and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He joins the…
Read MoreIvan Dmochowski named MacDiarmid Term Chair
Jan 7, 2019
Prof. Ivan J. Dmochowski as been named the Alan MacDiarmid Term Professor, effective January 1, 2019. The Alan MacDiarmid Term Chair was established in 2001 in honor of longtime chemistry professor…
Read MoreOrganic Lecturer Position Opening
Nov 20, 2018
The Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a lecturer position in the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory. This is a nine month, non-tenure track…
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Events
Canceled: Inorganic Chemistry Seminar, Dr. Susan Hanson, LANL
Inquiries please contact Rosa M. Vargas rvargas@sas.upenn.edu
"Measurements of Trace Levels of Actinides in Environmental Samples"
Canceled: Biological Chemistry seminar: Kate Carroll, Scripps Institute
Topic: Redox biology
Canceled: Physical Chemistry Seminar: Dr. David Nesbitt , University of Colorado
This seminar has been canceled
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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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