September 4, 2020
Each year the Department of Chemistry acknowledges our top students in the Honors General Chemistry series, the Honors Organic Chemistry series, and the Physical Chemistry series.
The P.C. Cross award for the top student in Physical Chemistry has been awarded to Cable Warren.
The Hyp Dauben award for the top students in Honors Organic Chemistry has been awarded to Matt Helton, Zachariah Fincher, and Hayden Manninen.
The Honors General Chemistry Achievement Award for the top students in... Read more
August 10, 2020
Nature’s Label is a start-up created by five enterprising college students — Sophie Ye, Khoi Ha, Siddhant Jain and Alyssa Mell from the UW and Arya Mathew from Seattle University.Featured on Seattle Refined
June 24, 2020
Congratulations to Georges Camille Motchoffo Simo, who has been named a Spence Scholar!
“I was born in Ebolowa, Cameroon. I was raised by a single mother with two older brothers. I moved to the US at the age of 18, not knowing a word of English.
My dream of all time is to become an MD/Ph.D. in Neurosurgery. I have been dreaming of becoming a researcher while working in the medical field for my very first day of middle school. I grew up thinking that college was not an option for me because of... Read more
June 24, 2020
Congratulations to Marium Raza, who has been awarded the Thomas Sedlock Icon Scholarship!
“Marium is a rising senior in the interdisciplinary honors program at the University of Washington, studying biochemistry and comparative history of ideas. Her personal experiences with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis motivated her to study the physiological mechanisms behind the pain she so often felt growing up. So, as a freshman she started working in the Gordon lab in the Department of Physiology and... Read more
June 24, 2020
Congratulations to Priscilla Kwong and Catherine Pham, who have both been awarded Fulbright Scholarship Awards for the 2020-21 academic year!
Priscilla graduated from the UW in 2016. She will be traveling to Thailand to work as an English Teaching Assistant, and plans to attend graduate school for counseling.
Catherine graduated from the UW this spring. She will be traveling to Vietnam to work as English Teaching Assistant, and hopes to pursue a future career as a pediatrician.
To read... Read more
June 24, 2020
This year’s recipients of the Distinguished Research in Chemistry award are:
Ruben Crew (Professor Zhang’s group)
John Day (Professor Theberge’s group)
Maddie Eakman (Professor Zalatan’s group)
Dane Johnson (Professor Cossairt’s group)
Ethan Vo (Professor Li’s group)
Natalia Wilcox (Professor Zalatan’s group)
Ingrid Zimmerman (Professor Cossairt’s group)
This year’s recipients of the Distinguished Research in Biochemistry award are:
Miriam Al-Saedy (Professor Klevit’s group)
Marie Bauer (... Read more
May 7, 2020
Senior Lecturer Andrea Carroll was highlighted in a UW News article about the recent transition to online learning.
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May 4, 2020
Congratulations to Georges Motchoffo Simo, Hugo Pontes, and Irika Sinha, who have all been named to the 2020 Husky 100!
The Husky 100 honors 100 UW undergraduates and graduate students in all areas of study who actively connect what happens inside and outside of the classroom and apply what they learn to make a difference on campus, in their communities, and for the future. Through their passion, leadership, and commitment, these students inspire all of us to shape our own Husky Experience.... Read more
April 2, 2020
Congratulations to Karen Zhang for being awarded the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship!
The Goldwater Scholarship Program supports undergraduates who “show exceptional promise of becoming this nation’s next generation of research leaders” in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Karen is a junior studying biochemistry and microbiology. She is currently an undergraduate researcher in the Molecular Information Systems Lab (MISL) at UW, where she uses “nanopore sensing technology to... Read more
December 30, 2019
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2019-20 Chemistry Department scholarship and book awards!
This year’s award recipients are:
Noah Baker
Casey Chen
Zachariah Fincher
David Hales
Hannah Lea
Aileen Li
Emi Nakashima
Wendy Ni
Nate Novy
Irika Sinha
Xin Ray Tee
Ethan Vo
Shenwei Wu
Congratulations to all of the winners!
