News Archive
Each year, The Department of Chemistry awards fellowships to outstanding students.
The Department of Chemistry has been preparing for a safe return to campus. The department recognizes and places priority on the importance of providing a safe and sanitary place for our students, faculty, and staff who will return to campus.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill leads the CHASE partnership, which will work to develop hybrid photoelectrodes for fuel production that combine semiconductors for light absorption with molecular catalysts for conversion and fuel production.
The Department of Chemistry will no longer require the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) test scores as a part of our admissions process. This decision, effective Fall 2020, came after careful consideration from the Graduate Studies Committee.
Graduate student, Sondrica Goines, won the Winifred Burks-Houck Graduate Leadership Award from the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists & Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE).
This year, the Department of Chemistry (virtually) hosted the 2nd annual Sci-athon in collaboration with Departments of Chemistry at North Carolina State University and Duke University. Sci-athon is a collaborative event for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars designed to harness diverse scientific backgrounds toward solving global issues in chemistry.
The College of Arts and Sciences appoints Wei You as the new Department Chair of Chemistry. You will begin his appointment on July 01, 2020. You will succeed Jeff Johnson, who served as Department Chair from 2016-2020.