ECE MELD Spring 2026: High School Students Engage in Hands-On Chemistry at UConn Spring has become an outreach month for the UConn Department of Chemistry, bringing high school students to campus for meaningful, hands-on experiences in university-level chemistry. This spring, nearly 200 students from 11 high schools across Connecticut visited UConn’s Chemistry Building for two […]
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Why Take Honors General Chemistry?
If you are in the University Honors Program, we encourage you to consider enrolling in the Honors sections of General Chemistry CHEM 1147Q (Fall) and CHEM 1148Q (Spring). Here is why: Is it too hard? Will it hurt my GPA? You may have heard that Honors General Chemistry is more difficult than the regular sections. […]
The Empowering Honors Organic Chemistry
Reasons to take Honors Organic Chemistry There is an exciting opportunity for you when it comes to taking CHEM 2443 (Organic Chemistry II) in the Fall. I run a section that is a little different to the others. It is a Section for Honors and non-Honors students. For those of you not in the Honors […]
Prof. Nicholas Leadbeater Awarded 2023 CLAS Mentoring Award
Congratulations to Prof. Nicholas Leadbeater for being awarded the 2023 CLAS Mentoring of Undergraduate Students Award! The Faculty Mentoring Awards recognize faculty who demonstrate exemplary support, encouragement, and the creation of opportunities to enrich the learning and professional development of others.
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 […]
High School Students Exposed to UConn Chemistry Through Virtual Event
Students from Berlin High School didn’t let COVID-19 get in the way of learning directly from UConn faculty The UConn Department of Chemistry, working alongside the Office of Early College Programs & UConn Early College Experience (ECE), annually brings high school students from around Connecticut to the Storrs campus to see exactly what happens in […]
A Tale of Two Lab Courses
A recent article in ACS Publications, from Prof. Kiet Tran, Prof. Anwar Beshir, and Prof. Abhay Vaze, demonstrates a comparison of the experiences of both organic and analytical lab faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic distance learning initiative is described here. Faculty of both lab courses experienced four shared challenges in the transition to the online […]