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Thai Thayumanavan's work on providing a simple, rapid method to drug screening is featured in C&E News more ...
Senior & Awards Dinner was beheld on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. in the Marriott Center. Check out the photos and list of award winners ...
Bret Jackson's paper describing methane dissociation on Ni catalysts was selected as an Editor's Choice for 2011 by the editors of the Journal of Chemical Physics more ...
Professor Ray D'Alonzo (UMass PhD '77) presented a seminar on "Pharmaceutical Product and Supply Chain Protection or the Criminal Side of Pharmaceuticals," Wednesday, April 25th at 4:00pm in ISB 329.
All Alumni are cordially invited to attend the chemistry ALUMNI REUNION 2012
You are cordially invited to the next Chemistry Reunion on Saturday, May 19, 2012 in the beautiful Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) from 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. The Department of Chemistry will be honoring Emeriti faculty, staff, and family. Confirmed attendees to date include: Dave Adams, Ron Archer, Ramon Barnes, Dave Curran, Peter Lillya, Bernie Miller, Louis Quin, Earl McWhorter, Jane Rausch, Everett Reed, George Richason, Dick Stein and Peter Uden.
Please contact Carrie Penland (carriemp@chem.umass.edu, 413-545-2585) for more information or to RSVP. We hope to see you all there in May!
Justin Fermann has been named recipient of this year's University Distinguished Teaching Award
Vincent Rotello has been selected the latest UMass Amherst Spotlight Scholar more ...
Graduate Student Elih Velazquez-Delgado (Hardy group) former pro pitcher keeps his 'strike zone" in proteins more ...
Rotello groups', "Tailoring nanoparticles: Suits you sir!" Chem.Soc.Rev. paper on surface functionalization of nanoparticles for nanomedicine, was highlighted in the CSR News Blog-February 2012 more ...
Spring 2012 Seminar Schedule more ...
Dr. Zeynep Delen (former Lahti group member) will be giving a talk next Tuesday, Jan. 31 at 4 p.m. in GSMN 153 on "The Olive Project," promoting liberal arts style science education for non-science people in Turkey more ...
Paul Lahti has published one of the Top 10 Most Read Articles from The Journal of Physical Chemistry A more ...
Paul Lahti's paper on Radicals organized by disk shaped aromatics has been selected as a CrystEngComm Hot Article more ...
Now accepting applications for Fall 2012 more ...
Julian Tyson receives grant from ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry for International Year of Chemistry Activities to give a public lecture/demonstration on Dec 8th at 7:30 pm in 135 ISB more ...
Springfield Museums and UMass Amherst Team Up to Install a ‘Molecular Playground’ at City’s Science Museum more ...
Julian Tyson receives grant from ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry for International Year of Chemistry Activities to give a public lecture/demonstration of Dec. 8th at 7:30 p.m. in 135 ISB more ...
Vincent Rotello and Richard Vachet are co-leaders of TRG 3 (Sensors and Environmental Monitoring) and are receiving support along with Sankaran Thayumanavan from a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation through the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing to improve nanomanufacturing technology more ...
ResearchFest 2011 was held on Tuesday, August 30. Check out the list of award winners more ...
Paul Dubin and colleagues have received a NSF grant for their work on "Protein-Polyelectrolyte Coacervates"
Professor emeritus Ronald Archer has been named an American Chemical Society Fellow, and will be one of 213 ACS Fellows honored at the society's fall national meeting induction ceremony on August 29 in Denver more ...
Everett Turner, a longtime faculty member of the chemistry department, passed away at the Fisher House Hospice on Monday, July 4, 2011.
Vincent Rotello and colleagues work on Colorimetric Bacteria Sensing (J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 9650-9653) is highlighted on the 22 News TV program more ...
iCons featured in July 4 C&EN more ...
Jeanne Hardy and colleagues have discovered a way to control an enzyme - one of a group known as caspases - that regulates more ...
Nishant Patel, a double major in Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is one of three campus recipients of the Ross Memorial Scholarship, awarded to undergraduates of high academic standing who plan to help society after they graduate.
Chemistry Demo Show, Friday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m. in 135 ISB. It was a fun-filled evening of exciting explosions, colorful chemistry and perhaps a little magic!
Senior & Awards Dinner was held on Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. in the Marriott Center. It was a great evening had by all. Follow the link to view photos and awards winners more ...
Drake Niedzielski, an eighth grade student working in the DV lab won the second place at the Regional Science Fair in North Adams for his work on ‘Photovoltaic Solar inks.’ more ...
Congratulations to Nagarjuna Gavvalapalli (Grad Student, DV Lab) has been selected to receive a Eugene M. Isenberg Scholar Award for the 2011/2012 academic year.
Congratulations to Matt Stevens (Chem BS, Chambers Lab) on winning the 2011 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Award. more ...
Congratulations to Bob Sabola who will be presented with this year's Chancellor Citation Award in May!
The late Professor Marvin Rausch's mineral collection comes to campus more ...
Join us for the Inaugural Marvin D. Rausch Letureship in Organometallic Chemistry featuring Professor Thomas Bitterwolf on Thursday, April 14 more ...
Professor Sankaran "Thai" Thayumanavan honored as 2011 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science more ...
First iCons group launched, takes on cholera crisis more ...
Chemistry Researchers Helping to Solve the Problems of Tomorrow more ...
Professor Sankaran "Thai" Thayumanavan was recently chosen as the campus’s first Spotlight Scholar in recognition of his research and innovation in clean energy science more ...
Professor Lila Gierasch and colleagues win $1.2 Million EUREKA Award to study disease-related protein misfolding more ...
Integrated Sciences Program Stresses Problem Solving more ...
Professor Sankaran "Thai" Thayumanavan and group's Nanogel work represented as ACS Noteworthy Chemistry more ...
Distinguished alumnus Paul H. Terry (retired, USDA) has been selected as a member of the 2010 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society and will be honored at a special ceremony on Monday, August 23 in the Sheraton Hotel Constitution Ballroom. Paul received his Ph.D. in Organic chemistry, and has been a very loyal supporter of the Department for many years. more ...
Professor Vincent Rotello will be giving the Langmuir Lecture "Engineering the nanoparticle interface for materials and biological applications" on Tuesday, August 24 in the Harbor Ballroom II at 3:00pm at the Fall 2010 ACS meeting in Boston. This is a national honor. more ...
Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Awards Grant to Professor Sankaran "Thai" Thayumanavan to Commercialize Fuel Cell Innovation more ...
Join us for ResearchFest 2010 on Tuesday, August 31. Check out the schedule of events more ...
Professor Julian Tyson Takes First Place in the 2010 US Fencing Summer National Championships more ...
33rd Reaction Mechanisms Conference was held on June 23-26 here at UMass Amherst more ...
Professor Richard Vachet Elected to Board of Directors of American Mass Spectrometry Society more ...
Congratulations to Marie Whalen on receiving the 2010 Chancellor's Citation Award more ...
Professor Sankaran Thayumanavan's interview about solar technology research on WFCR
Professor Bob Weis with former graduate students patent a method for assembling receptor-signaling complexes for engineering new compounds and drugs more ...
Congratulations to Myoung-Hwan Park (Rotello group) was awarded one of the 2010-2011 University Fellowship Awards
Professor Vincent Rotello improving delivery of anti-cancer nanoparticle chemotherapy appears in the current issue of Nature Nanotechnology more ...
Professor Sankaran Thayumanavan's most recent publication in the Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry more ...
Professor Sankaran Thayumanavan's and collegues discover how to move protons, improve hydrogen fuel cell technology. Their findings are reported in the current issue of Nature Chemistry. more ...
Professor Michael Barnes will be receiving the University's Distinguished Teaching Award which is the highest award for teaching, Congratulations!
Dr. Richard H. Holm ’55, ’79 Honorary is one of the recipients of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni Association 2010 Distinguished Alumni Awards. more ...
Professor Sankaran Thayumanavan's key article on photovoltaics was chosen for the recent JACS Select on Harnessing Energy for a Sustainable World more ...
Professor Vincent Rotello has been chosen by the American Chemical Society to receive one of two Langmuir Lectureship Awards for 2010 for his cutting-edge research more ...
Professor Sankaran Thayumanavan and Colleagues Identify an exciting new Way to Create Photovoltaic Devices to Convert Solar Energy to Electricity more ...
Professor Paul Dubin and Lianhong Sun have been awarded $300,000 from NSF for their project "Protein purification by selective coacervation," for the development of more ...
Professor Craig Martin and graduate student Xiaoqing Liu discover how cells create stability during critical DNA-to-RNA transfers more ...
Professor Vincent Rotello was recognized for “distinguished contributions to supramolecular chemistry, particularly the use of nanoparticles in self-assembly and sensing.” Rotello’s research has focused on more ...
Professor Lila Gierasch receives The Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award, sponsored by Genentech, is granted in recognition of exceptional contributions in protein science, which profoundly influence our understanding of biology. The 2010 award will be presented to Dr. Lila M. Gierasch on more ...
James Kearns, a graduate student in the Professor Julian Tyson's group, has been awarded a research internship in the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) Research Internship in Science & Engineering (RISE) program. more ...
Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) was dedicated on Monday, Sept. 14, 2009 more ...