Happy New Year! As we enter 2019, a new year of innovation and achievement, let’s take some time to appreciate some of the wonderful things that took place in the Department of Chemistry during 2018.
- Chemistry Unbound was highlighted in an Emory Magazine feature on innovative education
- The CCHF hosted a symposium on Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industryin STEM, used to refer to the field of work that applies sci... More
- Carli Kovel (MacBeth Group) was named a Bobby Jones Scholar for study abroad opportunity in Scotland
- Ana Maria Velez joined the Department of Chemistry as the Graduate Student Coordinator
- ChEmory was awarded a travel grant to attend the 225th American Chemical Society National Meeting in New Orleans, LA
- Research from the Kindt Group was featured in eScienceCommons
- Dayna Patterson (Weinert Group) and Kevin Hoang (Davies Group) were awarded 2018 Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation
- Honorable mentions went to Brendan Deal (Salaita Group) and Michael Hollerbach (1st year student in the Chemistry Graduate Program)
- Joel Bowman received the Alexander von Humboldt Award
- Beatrice the Biologist visited campus during the Atlanta Science Festival to speak about her experience in Science Communication
- The Department of Chemistry hosted the Chemistry Carnival during the Atlanta Science Festival
- Undergraduate student Ashley Diaz (Wuest Group) was awarded a 2018 Barry Goldwater Scholarship
- Dennis Liotta received the 2018 ACS Alfred Burger Award in Medicinal Chemistry
- Victor Ma (Salaita Group) was selected to participate in the 2018 CAS SciFinder® Future Leaders Program
- The Department of Chemistry welcomed 35 new graduate students
- Chemistry Postdocs were featured in the Science Writers Committeethe group of faculty that agree to advise a student’s rese... More quarterly newsletter
- The Department of Chemistry decided to drop the GRE requirement for graduate admissions
- Francesco Evangelista received a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
- Tianquan (Tim) Lian was awarded $7.5 million for fuel cell research
- Jose Soria received an Emory Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award
- Jill Heemstra and Bill Wuest were named Scialog Fellows for the Chemical Machinery of the Cell
- Christine Dunham received a Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Emeritus Professor Al Padwa gave a lunch colloquium
- Francesco Evangelista received a grant for Quantum Information Science Research from the DOE
- Dennis Liotta received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ottawa
- Huw Davies was named as a recipient of the Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods from the ACS
- Emory University and Georgia Tech teamed up to host the 2018 Atlanta Mini Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
- Tianquan (Tim) Lian was named the new Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chemical Physics
- ChEmory won an ACS Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award
- Amy Solinski (Wuest Group) received a 2018 Women in Chemistry Scholarship
- Research from the Bowman Group was featured on the cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry