Department News
John Wood Receives Penn Chemistry Distinguished Alumni Award
Nov 10, 2023
John L. Wood (GR'91), Robert A. Welch Distinguished Professor, Chemistry Department Chair, and Co-Director of Synthesis & Drug-Lead Discovery Lab at Baylor University, received the 2023 Penn…
Read MorePenn Chemistry Staff Receive Bonus Awards
Nov 10, 2023
Three Penn Chemistry staff were honored with annual School of Arts & Sciences Staff Recognition Bonuses. Yvonne Kline (Business Office), Candice Adams (Undergraduate Coordinator), and Michelle…
Read MorePhiladelphia Museum of Art Researchers Visit Department
Oct 14, 2023
Drs. Kate Duffy and Aleks Popowich, scientists in the Conservation Division at Philadelphia Museum of Art, joined Dr. Charles Ross and Prof. Dave Chenoweth to tour the Penn Chemistry Department Core…
Read MoreKaren Goldberg Elected ACS Fellow
Aug 1, 2023
Karen I. Goldberg, Vagelos Professor of Energy Research and Director of the Vagelos Institute of Energy Science and Technology, has been elected to this year’s class of American Chemical Society…
Read MorePenn Chemistry Represented in ACS Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame
Jul 13, 2023
Incoming Professor of Practice Donna Huryn is one of three scholars that has been inducted into the American Chemical Society Division of Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame. Joining her this year is…
Read MorePenn Chemistry Faculty Promoted
Jul 7, 2023
Three Penn Chemistry personnel have been promoted, effective July 1. Zahra Fakhraai has been promoted to Professor of Chemistry. Neil Tomson has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with…
Read MoreTom Mallouk is new Department Chair
Jul 4, 2023
Thomas E. Mallouk, Vagelos Professor of Energy Research, assumed the role of Department Chair effective July 1, 2023. Tom succeeds David Christianson, the Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor in Chemistry…
Read MoreDonna Huryn to Join Penn Chemistry
Apr 28, 2023
Dr. Donna Huryn, a graduate of the Penn Chemistry doctoral program, will be returning to Penn this summer as a full-time Professor of Practice. These roles were introduced at Penn to allow he…
Read MoreJohn G. Miller Award Announced
Apr 28, 2023
The highest honor that the Chemistry Department bestows on a graduating PhD student is the John G. Miller Award, which honors the most outstanding doctoral thesis in Chemistry every year. John Miller…
Read MoreMore Penn Chemistry Teaching Honors Awarded
Apr 28, 2023
Penn Chemistry personnel were lauded with a series of end of academic year honors this month. Lecturer Anthony Cirri has received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated Faculty…
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Events
Biological Chemistry Seminar Speaker: Dr. Nozomi Ando
Conformational Switching in a Dynamic Vitamin B12 Enzyme
Physical Chemistry Seminar, Dr. Margaret Johnson, JHU
Title and Abstract: TBA
Research
Biological Chemistry Seminar Speaker: Dr. Andrew Leslie
Location: Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall Inquiries: henka@sas.upenn.edu
Research Highlights
Tom Mallouk
Tom Mallouk and his research group have developed microscale "rockets" powered by acoustic waves and an onboard bubble motor that may one day navigate through landscapes of cells and blood vessels inside the human body. Read all about this exciting technology at the CBC Radio website.
Andrew Rappe
A new paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society authored by Chemistry Professor Andrew Rappe and his research group describes a new approach for synthesizing organic “Legos” that can be easily connected to make new materials. This framework creates structures that are lightweight,…
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