News Archive - Department of Chemistry

News & Updates

November 3, 2022: Miharu passes her Ph.D. Proposal Exam and is now officially a Ph.D. Candidate! Congratulations Miharu!
August 12, 2022: Aric Potter wins the SAS Undergraduate Student Award! Congratulations Aric!!
August 11, 2022: Grant successfully defends his PH.D. Dissertation! Congratulations, Dr. Myres!!
May 5, 2022: Isaac graduates with a B.S. in Chemistry! Congratulations Isaac!
April 28, 2022: Miharu passes her Ph.D. Pre-Oral Exam! Congratulations Miharu!
April 20, 2022: At the Chemistry Department Awards Program, several of the lab members were honored: Clista won a Departmental Tuition Scholarship, Aric won the Ted Eyring Undergraduate Scholarship, Grant was the inaugural winner of the Joel Harris Graduate Summer Fellowship, and Jay was recognized with a 5-year Staff Service Award. Congratulations all! It was quite an afternoon!
April 7, 2022: Clista presents her research at NCUR, the 2022 National Conference on Undergraduate Research.
March 23, 2022: Aric, Clista, Grant, Isaac, Jay, and Miharu all give presentations on their research at the Spring 2022 National ACS Meeting. The meeting was a hybrid, and Grant traveled to San Diego and presented in person.
October 14, 2021: Joel makes the 2021 Analytical Scientist Power List
September 28, 2021: Jay is honored at FACSS/SciX with the inaugural Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) Presidential Service Award. Congrats Jay!
September 27, 2021: Grant wins the FACSS Tomas Hirschfeld Award at SciX! Congratulations Grant!! https://scixconference.org/FACSS-Student-Hirschfeld-Awards
September 14, 2021: Aric and Clista give presentations at the Eastern Analytical Symposium Virtual Student Symposium.
August 16, 2021: Isaac Cao joins the lab as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. Welcome Isaac!
August 5, 2021: Clista and Aric give presentations at the Office of Undergraduate Research Virtual Summer Symposium.
May 10, 2021: Aric Potter and Clista Galecki join the lab as Undergraduate Research Assistants. Welcome Clista and Aric!
April 5, 2021: Jay gives a talk at the Spring National ACS Meeting in a Symposium on Biomaterials and Biointerfaces, which he chaired.
March 9, 2021: Grant gives a talk at PittCon with a cute title, “Surface Enhanced-Area Raman Spectroscopy (SEARS) for Label-Free DNA Biosensing in Porous Silica Supports.”
November 24, 2020: Miharu Koh joins the lab as a Graduate Student joint with Shelley Minteer. Welcome Miharu!
October 29, 2020: Based on their SciX/FACSS poster awards, Allison and Grant give invited talks in the SAS/Metrohm Groundbreaking Spectroscopy Research Virtual Symposium.
October 12, 2020: Grant and Allison win the SAS Poster Competition at SciX/FACSS! They were two of the four winners out of more than 80 poster entries.
May 6, 2020: Eric R. defends his MS project and completes his BS/MS Program. Congrats Eric!
April 29, 2020: Grant successfully defends his research proposal and advances to Ph.D. Candidacy.
April 21, 2020: As a graduating senior, Allison wins the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry Undergraduate Award, the Senior Comprehensive Exam Prize, and the American Institute of Chemists Award. Congrats Allison!
April 21, 2020: Alex wins U of U Department of Chemistry Undergraduate Research Scholarship. Congrats Alex!
March 1-2, 2020: Alex, Allison, Eric R., Grant, Jay, and Maryam present their research at PittCon in Chicago.
February 12, 2020: Dasha becomes a Naturalized U.S. Citizen! Congratulations Dasha!
December 31, 2019: Joel is ranked 11th internationally in the Analytical Scientist 2019 Power List.
December 11, 2019: Maryam successfully defends her dissertation. Congratulations Dr. Zare!
November 20, 2019: Joel wins the Fields Award in Analytical Chemistry at the Eastern Analytical Symposium
October 13, 2019: Grant wins the SAS Student Poster Award at SciX 2019 in Palm Springs! Congrats Grant!
September 1, 2019: NSF renews our grant support for the 14th time! 43 years of uninterrupted funding!
August 27, 2019: Joel wins the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Spectrochemical Analysis in San Diego
August 19, 2019: Alex receives an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Grant.
August 2, 2019: Joel is elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
May 13, 2019: Allison receives an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Grant.
May 13, 2019: Emily returns from UCF to teach Chemistry 3000 for another summer.
May 2, 2019: Joel is awarded the University of Utah, Calvin S. & JeNeal N. Hatch Prize in Teaching.
April 23, 2019: Allison wins the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Undergraduate Student Award. Congrats Allison!
April 16, 2019: Grant passes his Preliminary Oral Exam. Congrats Grant!
April 2, 2019: Maryam gives a talk at the 257th National ACS Meeting in Orlando.