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The institute’s Faculty Fellowship Program will provide support for Frank Leibfarth, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry within the College of Arts and Sciences, whose research includes expanding options for recycling.
Congratulations to Alex Zhukhovitskiy for being receiving the 2023 Army Early Career Award.
The UNC department of chemistry hosts an annual three-day competition called Sci-athon that invites teams of graduate students from various STEM disciplines to come up with the next big idea in chemistry.
Graduate students from across North Carolina — including several from the Department of Chemistry at UNC-Chapel Hill — came together in May for a two-day professional development conference that partnered industry experts with graduate students.
Congratulations to Sidney Wilkerson-Hill for receiving a 2023 Junior Scientists Participation Fellowship to participate in the Bürgenstock Conference.
The Pielak Lab's research "Resolving the enthalpy of protein stabilization by macromolecular crowding" is featured on the May issue of Protein Science.
The annual Departmental Senior Awards are presented to students demonstrating excellence in their academic studies in chemistry, research in the labs, and/or teaching in the classroom. We are pleased to announce the recipients of Carolina Chemistry’s 2023 Departmental Senior Awards.
Frank Leibfarth tests molecules to turn plastic waste into useful materials, diversifying options for recycling.
Eight chemistry students have been selected as fellows by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
In this work, we employ a few simple density-based quantities from the information-theoretic approach (ITA) to predict polarizability of proteins.
A team of collaborators from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill won Phase 1 of the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN)-sponsored Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Active AI Planners for Chemistry/Materials Optimization and Discovery Grand Challenge.


