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The UW Molecular Engineering Ph.D. program celebrated 12 students who successfully defended their theses during the 2023-2024 academic year on May 31, 2024. Faculty, students, and the graduates’ family and friends were in attendance. These MolE Ph.D. graduates conducted interdisciplinary research across eight different departments and organizations.
During the ceremony, Gökçe Altin was awarded the MolES Distinguished Dissertation Award for her publication, “3D printed engineered living… Read more
Congratulations to Yuting Zeng, who defended her Ph.D. work “Elucidating Human Disease Mechanisms Using Innovative Open Microfluidic Platforms” on June 17, 2024. Yuting was a student in Professor Ashleigh Theberge’s research group and worked on biomedical applications of multiple open microfluidic devices, including kidney disease, airway inflammation, and wildfire smoke exposure. She has accepted a position as a business operations manager… Read more
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. Somehow, the next couple of students’ projects also lent themselves to cakes. (Our lab’s main research focus is on lipid vesicles and cell membranes, which tend to be round. See… Read more
What are your group’s dissertation defense traditions?
Vaughan Group
Professor Joshua C. Vaughan:
We do a Doktorhut (German-style “doctor hats” or mortarboard) decorated with memorabilia, miniature interpretations of research papers, sculptures of volcanoes, and blinking lights. These are lots of fun. (Lauren Gagnon '19 is pictured above.)
We also do a "lightning wisdom transfer" from each successive graduate student to the next using a plasma… Read more
Congratulations to Atchuthan Gopalan, who defended his Ph.D. work “Redox Targeting Insights and Applications for High-Energy-Density Redox Flow Batteries” on August 14, 2024. Atchuthan was a student in Professor Daniel Gamelin’s research group and investigated the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of redox-active solids with liquid electrolytes found in flow batteries.
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.
Many of the world’s most complex challenges will be addressed through interdisciplinary research in the chemical… Read more
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. students leave, all we have left are their theses sitting on a shelf and the science they contain (and maybe… Read more
A year in review of honors and achievements by UW Chemistry and Biochemistry undergraduate students.
Jump to ChemStar/ChemStarter Undergraduate Research Scholarship (2023)
Jump to ChemStar Summer Research Stipend (2024)
Jump to University and External Awards… Read more
A year in review of honors and achievements by UW Chemistry graduate students.
Jump to Prizes for Best Ph.D. Thesis
Jump to Prizes for M.S. Research and Thesis
Jump to Merit Awards
Jump to Leadership in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Awards
Jump to University and External Awards
Excellence in Chemistry Graduate Awards
These fellowships were awarded in autumn 2023 and… Read more