Staff News

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, […]

Keeper of the Chemistry Building

The health of the building infrastructure is a major aspect for any chemistry facility. Our Chemistry Department occupies a beautiful building that is also astoundingly complex: 225 fume hoods evacuate the air out of the building at a high rate (also needing to be replenished at the same rate), and dependent of the weather, also […]

Stockroom Staff Adapts to Changing Lab Needs

Structural Changes to Teaching Lab Services and the Main Stockroom The retirement of Charlene Fuller led to many changes for Main Stockroom team. Sam Post, previously a senior laboratory technician, successfully transitioned into the Main Stockroom Manager role, and is continually looking for new efficiencies and better ways to serve the department. Organization of the […]

Charlene Fuller Retires After 33 Years at UConn

After 11 years as the Business Manager at the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, Charlene Fuller came to the Department of Chemistry during a period of great excitement: construction of the “new” Chemistry Building was nearing completion. Through this time of many changes, projects in the Main Stockroom remained constant. Although Charlene’s original role […]

“Outpouring of Support” as Researchers, Barnes & Noble Donate Lab Supplies to UConn Health

“UConn is really my home,” said Yashan Zhang. She lives in Farmington – just minutes from UConn Health – and she’s an assistant professor in residence in the Chemistry Department on UConn’s Hartford Campus. She’s also Chinese, though she’s been in Connecticut and part of the UConn community for the past 13 years. “I started […]

Chemistry Building Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Transformative. Iconic. Chemistry. Opening in 1999, the Chemistry Building was the first UConn building to be built as part of the 10-year UConn 2000 initiative, a series of 85 capital projects across UConn’s campuses. This iconic campus landmark marked the beginning of an amazing transformation of the Storrs campus. In these years, the Department has […]

Chem Café’s Susan Monroe Retires

Susan Monroe has watched the UConn campus cafés grow–including the Chem Café–since the day she first started working at UConn on March 4, 1994. April 1, 2019, we are sad to announce Susan’s retirement from the Chem Café after a wonderful 25 years of work through UConn Dining Services. Susan grew up in Mansfield, Connecticut […]