Whatever you thought was impossible about yourself two or three years ago, there's now evidence that you were wrong.
- Nathan Chan '26
We gathered to celebrate the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduation on June 11, 2026, in the Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion. Baccalaureates Nathan Chan and Saiyuri Suresh addressed their classmates reflecting on their Husky experience with gratitude and pride. Congratulations!
Congratulations again to our recent graduates and their families. We are immensely proud of your accomplishments at the UW. As new alumni of our department, we hope that you will stay connected with us and share your stories with the next generation of students in our program. These last few years have reminded us of the importance of scientific discovery, of sharing our discoveries with each other and the…
We proudly celebrate our graduates and all they have accomplished!Jump to MSACST DegreesDOCTORAL DEGREES AWARDEDSummer 2025, Autumn 2025, Winter 2026, and Spring 2026 Summer 2025Shaun Gallagher, PhD ChemistryOne or Many: Using single particle microscopy to investigate perovskite quantum dot surface chemistry(Professor David S. Ginger)Mercie Hodges, PhD ChemistryAccessing Increased Sustainability of Commodity Polymers: Post-Polymerization Modifications of…
We are pleased to introduce you to our undergraduate students supported by departmental scholarships! Departmental scholarships -- totaling $42,000 this spring -- are funded by the endowments and current-use funds listed below. These funds were established by alumni, faculty, and friends to provide broad-based support to the Department of Chemistry or direct financial support to students majoring in chemistry or biochemistry. Thank you to our alumni, friends, and corporate partners who give…
These awards recognize outstanding research by master’s students in the Applied Chemical Sciences and Technology (MSACST) program and carry a $500 prize. They were funded by the Lloyd E. and Florence M. West Fellowship in Chemistry which Dr. West and his wife Florence endowed to give back to the university where Dr. West cultivated the necessary tools for his distinguished career and rewarding life. Dr. West completed his Ph.D. in 1939 under the direction of Professor Rex Robinson, and it is in…
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce the following prizes for outstanding work by graduate students. These awards, announced each spring, recognize doctoral research and carry a $1,000 prize. These awards were established in Academic Year 2021-22 and are funded by endowments made possible through the philanthropic support of faculty, friends, and alumni.George H. Cady Prize for…
Drs. Debarati Das and Weiwang Zeng are two of the sixteen UW researchers who have been awarded postdoctoral fellowships from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as part of an initiative to maintain the talent stream of scientists-in-training while U.S. research universities navigate funding uncertainties.In the group of Assistant Professor Lauren J. Rajakovich, Dr. Debarati Das studies iron–sulfur enzymes in the human gut microbiome enabling them to thrive in oxygen depleted conditions. Her…
Jaclyn A. Rebstock, a postdoctoral scholar in the group of Professor Munira Khalil, was awarded the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation. The fellowship supports advanced research by postdoctoral scholars in fundamental chemistry and the development and construction of chemical instrumentation. The award provides two years of funding, along with an additional $200,000 budget to support instrumentation costs. Rebstock earned her Ph.D. in chemistry…
Congratulations to the four first-year graduate students and the five graduating seniors in the Department of Chemistry who were awarded 2026 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships! Congratulations also to the four additional students who received honorable mentions. We are also delighted to announce that four alumni were recognized with either a fellowship or honorable mention. We are proud of this recognition of our students' research endeavors!The National Science…
Professor Xiaosong Li was elected to the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science with a new cohort of members at its annual meeting in Berkeley, Calif., May 30-31, 2026. Election to the Academy is for life and is the highest honor in the field of quantum molecular chemistry.Members are chosen among the international community of scientists who have distinguished themselves by the value of their scientific…
Assistant Professor Matthew Golder has been named a 2026 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar by The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented early career faculty in the chemical sciences.…
Professor David Masiello was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for his distinguished contributions to the theoretical understanding of nanoscale light-matter interactions, particularly for the design and interpretation of advanced spectroscopies that use electrons and light to probe material excitations.Masiello is an applied physicist whose research focuses on creating simple-yet-rich theoretical models that bring insight and understanding to…
Matthew Golder has been selected as a 2026 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry. These two-year, $75,000 fellowships are awarded yearly to 126 early-career researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.Assistant Professor Matthew Golder’s research program addresses the omnipresent "plastics problems" from two different…
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