Departmental News

Faculty Awards

Dale Poulter has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. This is a most deserving honor recognizing Dale's contributions to chemistry and science, and bringing important visibility to the high level of excellence within the Chemistry Department and at the University of Utah.
Vale Molinero has been awarded a Beckman Young Investigator Award. Cindy Burrows has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
John Conboy has been promoted to the rank of a Full Professor, Ilya Zharov has been promoted to the rank of an Associate Professor (with tenure).

Student Awards

Congratulations to Theresa Cooper (Armentrout Group) and Robert DeMille (Molinero Group) who won Physical Division Awards for their posters at the recent ACS National Meeting in Salt Lake City. Theresa presented a posteR titled "Environmental Issues and Ions: Absolute Hydration Energies of Cd2+ and Zn2+" and Robert's poster was titled "Coarse-Grained Ions Without Charges: Reproducing the Solvation Structure of NaCl with Short-Ranged Potentials".

Society of Western Analytical Professors (SWAP) 2010 Meeting

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

Research News

	Stabilization of RNA Oligomers Peter Flynn and Hillary Workman described the stabilization of RNA oligomers through reverse micelle encapsulation in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, Article ASAP) learn more...
	Proton transport in assemblies of silica colloidal spheres An article by Ilya Zharov and Joanna Smith in J. Mater. Chem. (2008, 18, 5335) describing proton transport in assemblies of silica colloidal spheres was one of the Top Ten most downloaded Journal of Materials Chemistry articles for November 2008 learn more...
	Photonic crystal structure in beetle scales Michael Bartl, Jeremy Galusha and colleagues from BYU and IBM reported the discovery of a diamond-based photonic crystal found in iridescent scales of a Brazilian beetle (Phys. Rev. E 2008, 77, 050904(R)). The dicovered structure has one of the most-desired photonic architectures and is the first example of a diamond-based photonic crystal operating at visible wavelengths. learn more...

Recent Awards

• 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