News

Zahra Fakhraai Receives Sloan Fellowship

Feb 25, 2015

Assistant Professor Zahra Fakhraai is one of three Penn faculty to receive 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships. Zahra, whose group studies the effect of nano-confinement on structure, dynamics and other properties of materials, joined the Chemistry Department in 2011.

David White Memorial Service

Feb 18, 2015

The Department of Chemistry will host a celebration of the life and career of David White at Penn. Please join us in the Lynch Lecture Hall on Thursday, March 12 at 3:00pm. A reception will follow in the Nobel Hall of Fame.

Penn Chemistry Major Honored

Feb 13, 2015

Chemistry major, Chemistry submatriculant and graduating senior, Vinicius (Vinny) Ferreira received a prestigious Thouron Award for graduate studies in the U.K. where he will be pursuing a Master’s degree in Physics at the University of Cambridge.

Penn Chemistry Mourns Passing of David White

Feb 1, 2015

The Department of Chemistry is deeply saddened to share that Prof. David White, long-time Department Chair and founding member of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, has passed away.

Upcoming Alumni Events

Jan 29, 2015

Please join us for two upcoming alumni events! Penn Chemistry will be visiting San Antonio for the APS March Meeting and Denver for the Spring ACS Meeting. We hope to see you there.

APS Meeting

Penn Chemistry/Physics Alumni Social

Tuesday, March 2, 2015

Graduate Student Beatrice Markiewicz Featured

Jan 27, 2015

Feng Gai research group member Beatrice Markiewicz has been featured in SAS Frontiers Magazine. Beatrice us using novel techniques to disassemble the amyloid proteins responsible for diseases like Alzheimer’s. Read more here.

Dan Mindiola Featured in C&E News

Jan 26, 2015

Presidential Professor Daniel J. Mindiola has been profiled by Chemical & Engineering News. Dan was the first American Chemical Society Scholar to go on and earn a Ph.D. Read all about his path to the Ivy League here.

ACES Hosts Second Successful Program

Nov 20, 2014

The Activities for Community Education in Science (ACES) program, started by graduate students Kelsey VanGelder (Kozlowski Group) and Lyndsay Wood (Winkler Group), hosted its second successful science event for children.

Jeff Winkler Elected to John Morgan Society

Nov 5, 2014

Jeffrey Winkler has been elected to the John Morgan Society of the University of Pennsylvania. The Morgan Society, the oldest honorific biomedical society in the country, was founded to stimulate research in basic medical science by promoting favorable conditions for such investigations through fostering communication between its members.

Chemistry junior honored by NOBCChE

Oct 3, 2014

Chemistry major Moses Adenaike received the NOBCChE Bayer Undergraduate Fellowship. As part of the fellowship, Moses traveled to the 41st Annual Conference held in New Orleans in September.