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The Wilkerson-Hill Group, led by Sidney Wilkerson-Hill, assistant professor of chemistry, is the recipient Organic Letters' 2021 Outstanding Publication of the Year award in recognition of their research publication, "Programmed Sequential Additions to Halogenated Mucononitriles."
Eight chemistry students and alum were selected as fellows by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The fellowships recognize and support outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees.
When the pandemic struck, life as we knew it came to a halt. Click to learn more about how teaching professors Carribeth Bliem and Anna Curtis have adapted a learning model to the virtual classroom.
Six members of the department of chemistry at UNC-Chapel Hill are among the winners of the Student Undergraduate Teaching and Staff Awards (SUTASA). Read more about our recipients and the award.
We are pleased to share that Jillian Dempsey, Candice Crilly and Shannon Speer are among the recipients of the University Awards for the Advancement of Women. Read more about the winners.
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists Charles Carter, Qi Zhang, and Abigail Knight were awarded $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to answer the age-old question: How did life on Earth begin?
Covenant alumna and first-generation college graduate Maribel Borger ‘14 returned to Carolina as an undergraduate labs supervisor and lecturer. Learn about how she is now helping future chemists succeed.
Abigail Knight, assistant professor of chemistry, was recently awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation. Her project, “Synthesis of Multiple Architectures of Decodable Biohybrid Polymer Libraries,” focuses on developing a new way to rapidly screen large polymer libraries for desirable characteristics.
Jeffrey Dick, assistant professor of chemistry, was recently awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation. His research project, “Electro-Shock Synthesis of High Entropy Alloy Nanoparticles from Sub-Femtoliter Reactors,” focuses on developing new ways to control the properties of high entropy alloy nanomaterials.
The Pielak Lab is researching the ability of tardigrade proteins to protect protein-based drugs and industrial enzymes from dehydration-induced inactivation. Read more about how their research has the potential to impact vaccine distribution.
Jeffrey Dick, assistant professor of chemistry, was recently named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow. Read more about the fellowship and research in the Dick lab.
Class of 2020 alum Alton Gayton, who received a B.S. in chemistry, reflects on his time at Carolina, what it was like to graduate during a global pandemic, and shares more on his current doctoral studies in virology at Harvard Medical School.