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Dear Friend of Chemistry,
It’s been an eventful start to the new academic year on campus! We recently hosted our annual colloquium on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, a newer tradition we have quite a bit of fun with.
What are your group’s dissertation defense traditions?
Keller group
Sarah L. Keller, Duane and Barbara LaViolette Endowed Professor of Chemistry:
One year, on a lark, I made a cake that illustrated a graduate student’s research project and used it as a visual aid during my introduction of their dissertation defense.
The UW College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) is preparing to launch a capital campaign to fund a new, cutting-edge Chemical Sciences Building (CSB), slated to open in 2028. The new building will replace all existing chemistry research labs in Bagley Hall and the Chemistry Library Building and will propel UW Chemistry into the next generation of research and teaching excellence.
Graduate students are more than their science. They influence the trajectories of our research groups and institutions in a multitude of ways. And yet, when we look around after our Ph.D.
Bernard “Bernie” Santarsiero ’80, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1980, where he worked with crystallography pioneers Professors Edward C. Lingafelter and Verner Schomaker. His postdoctoral training included work as a Myron A.
