Inorganic Chemistry

Alumna Danna Freedman awarded MacArthur Fellowship

November 7, 2022
News release MIT

Danna Freedman

Alumna Danna Freedman, Professor MIT (Ph.D. '09, Chem with Professor Jeffrey Long). Photo courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation.

Danna Freedman, the F.G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry at MIT, has been named a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship reciepient by the...

Department of Chemistry welcomes Polly Arnold to the faculty

July 17, 2019
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Polly Arnold will be joining the Chemistry Department faculty in January of 2020.

Berkeley awarded $20M to establish an NSF Center for Chemical Innovation

July 1, 2020
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
A team of institutions led by UC Berkeley has been awarded a $20 million research grant from the National Science Foundation to pursue breakthrough technologies towards new medicines and innovative materials.

Artificial proteins have a firm grasp on heavy metals

December 27, 2019
Theresa Duque | Berkeley Lab

Science illustration

Illustration of peptoid combinations. Each of the metal-binding monomers is represented as a red or blue “claw.” Credit: Rebecca Abergel/Berkeley Lab

A team of researchers at Berkeley Lab, led by alumna Rebecca Abergel, have developed a library of artificial proteins or “peptoids” that...

Royal Society of Chemistry marks Richard Andersen’s 75th Birthday with special publication

January 2, 2019
Professors John Arnold and Don Tilley have served as guest editors on a recent web publication of scholarly articles about the research and teaching of Professor Richard Andersen.

Kwabena Bediako receives DOE Early Career Research Award

June 23, 2020
College of Chemistry Press Release

Kwabena Bediako

Kwabena Bediako has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science to receive funding for new research in his lab. The program, now in its 11th year, is designed to fund projects over five years to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during the crucial early career years.

What happens when your discovery becomes personal?

August 22, 2019
Marge d'Wylde | College of Chemistry

Richmond Sarpong

Until this year Robert Harris and Robert Bergman have been esteemed colleagues at the College. Recently however, when they were at an event discussing an interview Bergman had done with Professor William Lester, they made a very interesting personal discovery. Their lives had more than crossed as children living in Chicago’s Hyde Park. In fact, they had lived about 100 yards from each other across an alleyway.

Alum Amy Prieto rethinks lithium-ion batteries with an eye toward storing renewable energy

July 16, 2018
by Prachi Patel

Katie Hoffner/Prieto Battery.

Chemist Amy Prieto of Colorado State University discusses her work to commercialize a safer, more customizable battery

https://cen.acs.org/materials/energy-storage/Entrepreneur-rethinks-lithium-ion-b…

Jillian L Dempsey awarded 2018 Dalton Transactions UC Berkeley Lectureship

April 13, 2018
Dr Mike Andrews

(left to right) John Arnold, Jillian Dempsey, Andrew ShoreThe 2018 awardee of the Dalton Transactions University of California, Berkeley Lectureship is Professor Jillian L Dempsey, at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Lecture recognizes independent early career researchers who have made a significant contribution to the field of inorganic chemistry.

http://blogs.rsc.org/dt/2018/04/11/jillian-l-dempsey-2018-winner-of-the-dalton-t…