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Thank you for joining us this Husky Giving Day and opening the door to discovery for undergraduate students in the Department of Chemistry!
Husky Giving Day is a time when we really can all come together. Members of our community who participated represent diverse demographics including GOLD alumni (graduates of the last decade), alumni who have celebrated the golden anniversary of their graduation, alumni with degrees outside of chemistry or biochemistry, UW staff and faculty, first-time… Read more
Mark your calendars for Thursday, April 4, Husky Giving Day, the University Washington's annual one-day giving campaign. Join us in supporting the people, programs and causes you care about most. Together we can change the world.
Please help us fund a summer stipend for an undergraduate researcher through the Chemistry Scholarship Fund on April 4 by visiting our Husky Giving Day page to make… Read more
Eddie Melton jumped into the 2023 UW Combined Fund Drive (CFD) campaign with enthusiasm and ease. You would never know it was their first time as a coordinator—a volunteer role to promote the UW CFD in the Department of Chemistry. Eddie created opportunities for both employees and students to become involved in the campaign, sent engaging emails, and created fun flyers to post around the department.
Eddie had specific events they wanted to put on during the campaign season and they executed… Read more
The UW’s Clean Energy Institute is speeding the development of next-generation technology and supporting the experts who will create it.
By Jamie Swenson
Read the feature in University of Washington Magazine, March 2024.
Chemistry PhD student Ricardo Rivera-Maldonado is mentioned as a collaborator and Associate Professor of Chemistry Cody Schlenker is quoted.
Admitted students and families can engage with the College of Arts and Sciences through several department and program specific events over the next few weeks.
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Dan Jaffe (Ph.D. 1987) is Professor of Environmental Chemistry at the University of Washington in Bothell. His research on outdoor air pollution is often in the news, and recently, his work on indoor air pollution was… Read more
Alexandra Velian has been selected as a 2024 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry. These two-year, $75,000 fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.
Velian’s research program targets the design of new materials that contribute to decarbonization, clean energy and quantum information technologies. A special… Read more
Image: Scientists used a synchronized attosecond x-ray pulse pair (shown in pink and green) from an X-ray free electron laser to study the energetic response of electrons (gold) in liquid water on attosecond time scales, while the hydrogen (white) and oxygen (red) atoms are ‘frozen’ in time. Nathan Johnson/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
In a paper published in Science on February 15, 2024, researchers… Read more
A Q&A with Prof. Ashleigh Theberge
Undergraduate researchers are an important part of Ashleigh Theberge’s chemistry laboratory at the University of Washington. Theberge, UW associate professor of chemistry, is co-principal investigator of the Theberge Group lab, which invents bioanalytical chemistry tools to improve healthcare and advance knowledge of chemical mechanisms in the body.
Theberge shares her thoughts about involving undergraduate students in the lab’s many research projects in… Read more
A lollipop to test for strep throat. A microfluidic device to enable signaling between cells. A kit for the remote collection of blood-based RNA (ribonucleic acid). These are among the recent innovations from Ashleigh Theberge’s chemistry lab at the University of Washington.
The Theberge Group invents bioanalytical chemistry tools to improve healthcare and advance knowledge of chemical mechanisms in the body. Many of their innovations, like… Read more