ChEmory, Emory’s award-winning American Chemical Society undergraduate club, celebrated National Chemistry Week by hosting a hybrid virtual/in-person event in partnership with the University of Minnesota. The club members celebrated the National Chemistry Week theme of “Sticking with Chemistry” using ACS-designed slime kits. ChEmory leadership distributed supplies so that a group of Emory students approved to…Continue readingChEmory celebrates National Chemistry Week with collaborative event
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Chemistry welcomes new faculty
For the first time, a team of chemists have lifted the hood on the mechanics involved in the mysterious interplay between sunlight and molecules in the atmosphere known as ‘roaming reactions’, which could make atmospheric modelling more accurate. The theoretical and computational work for the relevant study was performed by a team in the US…Continue readingJoel Bowman part of ‘roaming reactions’ study that sheds new light on atmospheric molecules
Tim (Tianquan) Lian is one of the investigators involved in the North Carolina-based Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE). The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will provide $100 million in funding to new artificial photosynthesis research projects, including a $40 million award to CHASE to accelerate fundamental research of the…Continue readingTianquan (Tim) Lian part of new DOE-funded CHASE Center
Francesco Evangelista, associate professor of chemistry, has been chosen as the 2020 recipient of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences medal. The IAQMS is the leading international organization for the development and application of quantum theory for chemistry and chemical physics. This prestigious medal is given annually “to a young member of the scientific community who…Continue readingFrancesco Evangelista awarded 2020 medal by the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Sciences
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Cassie Zaremba named T32 Fellow
Graduate scholar Cassie Zaremba has been named a T32 fellow as part of the Anti-Infectives Training Grant. The NIH-funded training grant supports graduate students in the biomedical and biosciences enrolled in the Laney Graduate School of Emory University who conduct basic research dealing with mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance and therapeutic discovery to combat infectious diseases.…Continue readingCassie Zaremba named T32 Fellow