Departmental News

Culinary Chemistry

The Department's newest undergraduate course, Culinary Chemistry: The Science of Food and Cooking, was recently profiled in The Salt Lake Tribune. To read the article click here

Faculty Positions

Two tenure track positions are available in the general areas of biological, inorganic, and physical chemistry. We have a new NMR facility equipped with instruments up to 800 MHz, thus NMR is of particular interest. Theory/computation is another area of interest. For more information click here
The Center for Cell and Genome Science and the Department of Chemistry invite applications for a chemical biology tenure-track faculty position in any area of chemistry, cell biology, or genome science. For more information click here
Alternative Energy Cluster. We expect to make several tenured/tenure-track appointments in the area of alternative energy with corresponding appointments in one or more science/engineering departments. For more information click here
Endowed Chair in Chemical Education. Applicants are invited to apply for the Ronald and Eileen Ragsdale Endowed Chair in Chemical Education, a new tenured position at the associate or full professor level. For more information click here

Faculty Awards

Joel Harris has received the A. A. Benedetti-Pichler Award which recognizes outstanding research in the field of microchemistry. Matt Sigman has received an Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award. Dale Poulter and Greg Voth have been elected to the inaugural class of ACS Fellows. Dale Poulter has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Vale Molinero has been awarded a Beckman Young Investigator Award. Cindy Burrows has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Society of Western Analytical Professors (SWAP) 2010 Meeting

The Chemistry Department at the University of Utah is hosting the 2010 SWAP Meeting on February 5-6. For more information please click here

For the latest Chemistry Department Newsletter please click here

Research News

	Bioinspired Photonic Crystals Michael Bartl and graduate students Jeremy Galusha and Matt Jorgensen’s research on bioinspired photonic crystal design was recently published as cover article in Advanced Materials (2010, 22, 107). They created the first photonic crystal with a complete band gap in the visible by replicating unique biological photonic structures into titanium dioxide. learn more...
	Structure-Reactivity Relationshisp for Pd Clusters Scott Anderson led the research published in Science (2009, 326, 826) and demonstrating the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical reactions. learn more...
	Water quality monitoring for space exploration Marc Porter led the research and development team of scientists and engineers from U of U, Iowa State U, Wyle Science Laboratories and NASA who developed a two-minute water quality monitoring method that just started six months of tests aboard the International Space Station. learn more...
	New synthesis of an important heterocycle Ryan Looper and co-workers described in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2009, 48, 3116) the use of a La(III)-catalyzed addition-hydroamination-isomerization cascade of propargyl cyanamides to prepare 2-aminoimidazoles. This important heterocyclic scaffold is found in many bioactive and medicinally relevant natural products. learn more...
	Reverse micelle encapsulation of proteins Peter Flynn and co-workers described in the J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2009, 131, 8030) the reverse micelle encapsulation of ubiquitin to determine the effects of confinement and excluded volume learn more...

Recent Awards

• Joel Harris, 2010 A. A. Benedetti-Pichler Award
• Matt Sigman, 2010 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
• Greg Voth, 2009 ACS Fellow
• Dale Poulter, 2009 ACS Fellow
• Dale Poulter, 2009 Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• Vale Molinero, 2009 Beckman Young Investigator Award
• Cindy Burrows, 2009 Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Ilya Zharov, 2009 IUPAC Young Observer Fellowship
• Gary Keck, 2009 University Distinguished Teaching Award
• Jennifer Shumaker-Parry, 2009 NSF CAREER Award
• Peter Armentrout, 2009 Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry