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Chemistry Faculty Recognized with CASE Awards

CASE Class of 2025 Includes 12 UConn Faculty Members ​The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) has named 12 UConn faculty members to its Class of 2025, representing one-third of the 36 new inductees. Among them are Dr. Jie He and Dr. Jing Zhao, both professors in the Department of Chemistry . CASE, established […]

UConn Chem “Greatest Hits” 2024 – Faculty Publications

Angeles-Boza  Synergy between the clavanins as a weapon against multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae  Naing, M. D., Juliano, S. A., Angeles-Boza, A. M.  RSC Med Chem 2024, 15, 2160-2164    Basu  8-OxodGuo and Fapy•dG Mutagenicity in Escherichia coli Increases Significantly when They Are Part of a Tandem Lesion with 5-Formyl-2′-deoxyuridine  Dasgupta, S., Gao, S., Yang, H., Greenberg, […]

Dr. Kerry Gilmore Featured in UConn Today

Dr. Kerry Gilmore was featured in UConn Today in an article titled, “Want to Contribute to Scientific Research? There’s An App – and a Network – for that.” What we are trying to do is to open up access to being able to do research. Read the article here: https://today.uconn.edu/2024/04/want-to-contribute-to-scientific-research-theres-an-app-and-a-network-for-that/

Tailoring Synthetic Polypeptide Design

In a collaborative effort, researchers from the University of Connecticut (led by Profs. Yao Lin, VJ Kumar and Xudong Yao) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (led by Prof. Jianjun Cheng) have made an advance in the rational design of synthetic polypeptides to develop filament-based hydrogels. The work, conceptualized and realized by the graduate […]

Search for new NMR Facility Director

COR²E is searching for a new Director of the jointly managed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility.  All details and link to the application site can be found here: https://jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/498031/nmr-core-facility-director-academic-assistant-3  The successful applicant will have demonstrated experience implementing multi-dimensional NMR for small and large biomolecules.  The full job description and necessary qualifications can be found here: 20231121_COR2EandChemistryNMRDirector

UConn Chemistry is Hiring! Financial Assistant 1

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Chemistry seeks qualified applicants for a full-time position as a Financial Assistant 1. The Department of Chemistry’s staff provides quality professional services to a diverse and thriving community of students and faculty engaged in innovative research and academic excellence. Under the supervision of the Education Program […]

Interactive Periodic Table Tells Stories, One Element at a Time

Department Chemistry Periodic Table Display | UConn  Christian Brückner started collecting more than 45 years ago when he was a young teenager in Germany and his father a metallurgist who’d bring home laboratory leftovers to feed his son’s growing interest in crystals and science. From an early 19th century bottle of a mercury salt to manganese […]

Workplace Navigators

A group of faculty and staff from STEM departments in CLAS have recently formed the Workplace Navigators group with the goal to provide a safe place where faculty, staff, post-doctoral associates, and graduate students can informally discuss academic and nonacademic concerns including administrative, workplace, and climate issues.  Together we will work to define the problem, […]