Welcome to Interfacial and Bioanalytical Chemistry (IBAC) at the University of Utah
Interfacial and Bioanalytical Chemistry at the University of Utah provides a unique focus for graduate education in the Department of Chemistry. Five research groups combine their state-of-the-art expertise in electroanalytical methods and scanning electrochemical microscopy, surface-plasmon resonance spectroscopy and microscopy, sum-frequency and second-harmonic generation, Raman microscopy, single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy, and nanoscale self-assembled structures to address important research problems in both fundamental and applied areas of interfacial and bioanalytical chemistry. Courses selected from analytical, physical, and biological chemistry, applied mathematics, and bioengineering provide a foundation for graduate study and research. Biweekly seminars and journal club provide on-going contact with research groups in this area and encourage collaborative research. Informal social activities take advantage of life in Salt Lake City and recreational opportunities in nearby Wasatch and Uinta Mountains.
Latest News Society of Western Analytical Professors (SWAP) 2010 Meeting to be held at the University of Utah on Feb 5-6th, 2010 Jennifer Shumaker-Parry NSF CAREER Award, 2009 ACS PROGRESS/Dreyfus Lectureship, 2008 ADVANCE Young Scientist Lecturer, University of Arizona, 2008 Ilya Zharov NSF CAREER Award, 2007 John Conboy Craver Award in Analytical Vibrational Spectroscopy, 2008 Henry Eyring Scientist, University of Utah, 2007 Marc Porter USTAR Professor, University of Utah, 2008 Director of the newly established Nano Institute of Utah, 2008 Joel Harris Robert W. Parry Teaching Award, University of Utah, 2008 Henry White   ACS Utah Award, 2008 W.W. Epstein Outstanding Educator Award, University of Utah, 2007 Joshua Wayment (Harris group) University of Utah Graduate Research Fellowship, 2007-2008 ACS Analytical Division Research Fellowship, 2008  FACSS Conference in Reno, NV (Sept. 28 - Oct. 2, 2008):  Trang Nguyen at the Meggers Award Symposium with Taka-aki Ishibashi (award recipient).  Symposium speakers from left to right: Terry L. Gustafson (Ohio State University), Garth Simpson (Purdue Univeristy), Y. Ron Shen (University of California at Berkeley), Heather Allen (Ohio State University), Taka-aki Ishibashi (Hiroshima Univeristy), Steven Baldelli (University of Houston), Pratik Sen (RIKEN, Japan), Trang Nguyen (University of Utah), Shoichi Yamaguchi (RIKEN, Japan), Koichi Iwata (The University of Tokyo).