Professor Brian Hoffman was awarded the 2022 American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal.
The Gold Medal is the AIC’s highest award. First presented in 1926, it recognizes excellence, contributions to society through the application of scientific research, and contributions to …
Now that the Human Genome Project has officially finished, an international team of researchers will map the entire collection of proteins in the human body.
Neil Kelleher, the Walter and Mary Glass Professor of Molecular Biosciences and professor of …
Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor Xiaoyu Zhang to the Department of Chemistry! He describes his current research and what he finds most fulfilling about teaching.
Where are you from? Where did you study?
I grew up in Shenyang, China. I …
Northwestern University Chemists Sir Fraser Stoddart and Omar Farha have made a breakthrough in surface science by introducing a new active mechanism of adsorption. Such adsorption-based phenomena, in which molecules are attracted onto a solid surface, are essential for today’s …
Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor Dayne Swearer to the Department of Chemistry! Professor Swearer recently spoke about his background and shares how he discovered his passion for research.
Where are you from? Where did you study?
I was born and …
Professor Samuel Stupp, of the Department of Chemistry, will receive the 2022 American Chemical Society Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry.
The Hirschmann Award, established in 1988, recognizes outstanding research achievements in the chemistry, biochemistry, and biophysics of …
Two Northwestern postdoctoral fellows, Anna Yang and Luke Kelley, have been named 2021 Cottrell Scholars by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Cottrell Fellowships aim to support the careers of early-career scientists who were losing opportunities to move into independent …
As of Sept. 1, Professor Neil Kelleher, of the Department of Chemistry, is the new director of the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP). The CLP is a center of interdisciplinary collaboration and biomedical innovation at Northwestern that aims …
Northwestern University has been granted $3.3 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to explore and develop new methods of capturing carbon emissions directly from the air. The Department announced this August that they will provide more than …
Professor Richard B. Silverman, of the Department of Chemistry, has received the 2021 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry. The award was established in 1980 by the Executive Board of Editors and the Publisher of Tetrahedron Publications, and …