New research provides scientists looking at single molecules or into deep space a more accurate way to analyze imaging data captured by microscopes, telescopes and other devices. The improved method...Read more

Chemistry professor Jiwoong Park has won a $120,000 award over two years from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation to support a postdoctoral fellow who will help develop advanced photovoltaic...Read more

Prof. Chuan He to lead Chicago’s first Center of Excellence in Genomic Science

Members of the University of Chicago chemistry faculty have collected a variety of local, national and international distinctions in recent weeks. Prof. Yamuna Krishnan download Yamuna Krishnan , professor in...Read more

Unique process creates knotted chemical structures

Silicon-based invention is tiny, soft, wirelessly functional

Asst. Prof. Jared Lewis download Jared Lewis has been selected for a 2016 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. Lewis, an assistant professor in chemistry...Read more

New light has been shed on solar power generation using devices made with polymers, thanks to collaboration between scientists in the University of Chicago’s chemistry department, the Institute for Molecular...Read more

Picture slide show memorial service reception for Professor Gregory L. Hillhouse, Department of Chemistry, the University of Chicago. Held Thursday, June 5, 2014 at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. To download the...Read more

Memorial service for Professor Gregory L. Hillhouse, Department of Chemistry, the University of Chicago. Held Thursday, June 5, 2014 at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Speakers: Elizabeth Davenport, Richard Jordan, Rocky Kolb,...Read more

The University of Chicago’s Ka Yee Lee has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering . Lee is a professor in...Read more

Samuel Greene, a fourth-year chemistry student in the College, has won a Rhodes Scholarship to continue his studies at the University of Oxford next fall. Greene is one of 32...Read more

Chemistry student Miao Yu is one of 42 international predoctoral students to earn this fellowship in 2013.

University of Chicago researchers have created a synthetic compound that mimics the complex quantum dynamics observed in photosynthesis and may enable fundamentally new routes to creating solar energy technologies. Engineering...Read more

Bozhi Tian , assistant professor in chemistry, has been named a 2013 Searle Scholar and will receive $300,000 to support his research over the next three years. Tian’s Searle Scholar...Read more

Three University of Chicago chemistry professors hope that their separate research trajectories will converge to create a new way of assembling what they call “designer atoms” into materials with a...Read more

R. Stephen Berry , Joshua Jortner and Stuart Rice will delve into deep and difficult scientific questions at a Sept. 13-15 conference in their honor at the University of Chicago...Read more

A newly published article in Physical Review Letters eliminates one of the top unsolved theoretical problems in chemical physics as ranked by the National Research Council in 1995. Scientists now...Read more

Microscopic spheres form strings in surprising alignments when suspended in a viscous fluid and sheared between two plates — a finding that will affect the way scientists think about the...Read more

The University of Chicago chemistry faculty has extended its string of honors and recognitions that began earlier this year . Jared Lewis , assistant professor in chemistry, is among 16...Read more