During this year’s UConn Gives, a 36-hour giving initiative March 23-24, members of UConn Nation raised $1,000 for the Bobbitt-Chou Fund for Graduate Chemistry Students! Whether you contributed a gift or helped to spread the word, we want to THANK YOU for supporting impactful graduate research opportunities within UConn Chemistry! More information about the UConn Gives Bobbitt-Chou Fundraising effort […]
American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Travel Award Winner
Congratulations to graduate student Scott Pierce (Angeles-Boza Group) for winning the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry (ACS-DIC) Travel Award. This program supports graduate students intending to present research talks or posters at ACS National Meetings. Scott will also be presenting in the ACS Spring 2021 (to be held online from April 5 – 30). He will be presenting […]
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipient
Congratulations to graduate student Caroline Donaghy (Angeles-Boza Group) for being awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. Caroline will be working on developing green pesticides using glycopeptides throughout her fellowship.
The Research of our Environment: How UConn Researchers are Working to Save the Planet
With insects declining precipitously, plastics building up in our oceans, and indigenous cultures suffering under misguided eco-policies, these UConn researchers are working to save the planet, one ethical decision at a time. About 30 years ago, the waters of the Long Island Sound were looking bleak. Pollution from the more than nine million people living […]
The Wolff New Venture Competition and UConn Entrepreneurs
The Wolff New Venture Competition—championed through the UConn School of Business—mentors start-up candidates and awards those who are most likely to advance society with their ideas. Research professor Nicole Wagner ’07 (CLAS), ’13 Ph.D. is regarded as one of the first winners of this competition with her start-up company, LambdaVision. LambdaVision commercializes technology developed by professor emeritus Robert Birge to […]
UConn Startup Unlocking the Promise of Hemp
A lawyer and a chemist get on a plane. This isn’t the start of a corny joke, but of a successful startup. University of Connecticut chemistry professor Greg Sotzing met attorney Peter Belsito on an airplane coming back to Connecticut from Atlanta. They soon realized they had a common interest: cannabis. During their flight, they […]
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 […]
Meet Schwenk Chair Dan Fabris
Professor Dan Fabris joined the UConn Department of Chemistry in January 2020 as the Harold S. Schwenk, Sr. Distinguished Chair. Below, Professor Fabris reflects upon his first year at UConn and his plans for the future. Please describe your academic training and career before UConn. Growing up near Venice (Italy), I knew from an early […]
Rouge Group Receives $2 Million NIH Grant
The Rouge Group’s research focuses on the improving the delivery of RNA and DNA into cells. Recently, the news has focused on the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, which are designed to deliver mRNA into cells to encode the viral proteins that the immune system needs to recognize and fight off infections. In a similar fashion, […]
Mani Group Paper Published in JACS
A new paper from the Mani Group appeared in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Jason Buck, a 4th year graduate student, and Dr. Tomoyasu Mani demonstrated a new type of magnetic control of molecular emission. They take advantage of the quantum mechanical nature of radical pairs (pairs of radical anion and cation or molecular qubits) to control fluorescence by […]