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  • First Year Graduate Student Gives Talk at Alma Mater
  • Tanei Ricks, a first year graduate student at Professor Best‘s group went back to his Alma Mater, Georgia Regents University (GRU), on Wednesday, June 12 to give a talk about graduate school preparations to students in the Summer Scholars Program sponsored by the NSF through CURS (Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship) at GRU. Ricks was invited […]
  • Chemistry Alumna Received The Mary Lee Behnke Prize
  • Britni Ratliff, a recent graduate of the Chemistry Department won a prestigious teaching award at the University of Chicago where she is a lecturer in the chemistry department. See the announcement here.
  • Organic Chemistry Parody
  • To help “increase student engagement, encourage learning, advance test scores, and to just have fun in what has become a dreaded class to many students,” UT Organic Chemistry professor Brian Long gave his students a very interesting extra credit assignment: create videos about chemistry parodying favorite songs. Some students went old school, using songs such […]
  • Chemistry Department Held 2013 Honors Day
  • The Chemistry Department held its 2013 Honors Day on April 29 in Buehler Hall 555 to honor students, staff and faculty members for their academic achievements, service to the department as well as their teaching and research achievements. Dr. Arlene Allen Garrison, Vice President of the Oak Ridge Associated Universities, attended the event as the guest speaker. […]
  • Weiyu Wang Received Eastman Fellowship
  • Weiyu Wang, a chemistry graduate student in Professor Mays‘ group received 2013 Eastman Chemical Company Summer Fellowship.Established in 2001, the fellowship was designed to assist students in their research as well as help Eastman identify top performers who are in the early stages of their graduate careers. Each year, selected universities are requested to submit nominations of […]
  • Professor Christiane Barnes Received TLSAMP Faculty of the Year Award
  • Professor Christiane Barnes, lecturer and Director of General Chemistry in the Chemistry Department, was awarded Faculty of the Year during the 3rd annual Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TLSAMP) Awards Banquet hosted in the University Center Ballroom on Monday, April 15 at 6pm. More than 50 faculty, staff and TLSAMP scholars participated in the Awards […]
  • Jeffrey Kovac Honored by the College of Arts and Sciences
  • By Lynn Champion On Saturday, April 6, Theresa Lee, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, presented an award on behalf of the college to Jeffrey Kovac, professor of chemistry, acknowledging his extraordinary contributions to pre-collegiate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education in the state of Tennessee through his long and distinguished service […]
  • Chemistry Faculty and Students Lauded at Chancellor Honors Banquet
  • The Chancellor’s Honors Banquet is held each spring to recognize students, faculty, staff, and friends of the University of Tennessee for their extraordinary achievements.The 2013 banquet was held April 8th at the University Center. Following chemistry faculty and students are recognized during the banquet. Professor George Schweitzer received a Citation for Success in Multidisciplinary Research. […]
  • Chemistry Undergraduate Received NSF Predoctoral Fellowship
  • Chemistry undergraduate student Britta Johnson, who graduated last year, recently received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP). Johnson was also the receipient of 2012 Outstanding Graduate in College Scholars at the University of Tennessee, College of Arts and Sciences and the winner of Best Presentation Award in 2012 EUReCA. The NSF GRFP  will provide […]
  • Chemistry Department Held 2013 Research Open House
  • The Department of Chemistry held 2013 Research Open House on Friday, March 8 and Saturday, March 9 to showcase exciting research happening in the Department to the prospective students. 35 students from all around the country participated in this two-day events. Each one of them was paired with a current graduate student as their host […]
  • Professor Fred Grimm Passed Away
  • I am sad to report that Dr. Fred Grimm, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee, passed away on Saturday, February 9, 2013.  Fred was born on June 15th, 1937 and is survived by his wife, Pam and daughter, Gail. Professor Grimm received his B.S. in Chemistry from Rutgers University […]
  • Professor Jenkins Received NSF CAREER Award
  • David Jenkins, an assistant professor of inorganic chemistry at UT, has been announced a recipient of the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. This marks the third CAREER award inside the Chemistry Department in the past 3 years. CAREER award is one of “the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify […]
  • Meng Rowland Received NIH Fellowship
  • A recent graduate from the Chemistry Department, Dr. Meng Rowland, received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA)from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a fellowship for individual postdoctoral fellows. The NRSA provides two year funding starting in January 2013 for Rowland’s proposal entitled “Molecular determinants of DNA sliding and hopping by a […]
  • ACGS Held Bake Sale to Help Ownby Family
  • Association of Chemistry Graduate Students (ACGS) held a bake sale on January 17 and 18 in the chemistry tutorial center to help Ownby family, whose house was burned down two weeks ago. Marilyn Ownby works for the Chemistry Department in the general chemistry lab. An email calling for participation was sent two weeks prior to […]
  • Chemistry Department Held BoV Career Workshop
  • The Department of Chemistry held 2013 Board of Visitors Career Workshop Unveiling the Mystique of Industry and Government Jobs, co-sponsored by Association of Chemistry Graduate Students, on Thursday, January 10 from 1pm to 5pm in Buehler Hall 511. Six speakers, all on Chemistry Board of Visitors, are from industry, ORAU and ORNL. They were invited […]
  • Rebecca Horton Article Featured on Cover of Analytica Chimica Acta
  • Dr. Rebecca Horton, a student graduated from Professor Vogt’s group in May 2012 had her article featured on the cover of October 2012 issue of Analytica Chimica Acta. The artilce entitled ” Introducing nonlinear, multivariate ‘Predictor Surfaces’ for quantitative modeling of chemical systems with higher-order, coupled predictor variables ” introduced ‘Predictor Surfaces’, an innovative chemometrics […]
  • Sepaniak Group Received NSF Funding
  • With funding of $400,000 from National Science Fundation, and support from the Chemical Measurement and Imaging Program in the Division of Chemistry, Professor Michael Sepaniak at University of Tennessee, Knoxville and his group will tackle the challenges of creating pillar arrays for chemical separations (PACS) that function as miniaturized liquid phase separation systems. An original […]
  • General Chemistry Redefined: Chemistry for the 21st Century
  • Modern chemistry laboratories have witnessed many striking advancements in the past few decades as computers have been integrated into almost every facet  of the collection, processing and storage of measurement data. The introductory chemistry sequence (our beloved Gen Chem), introduces students to the fundamental concepts in chemistry as well as basic techniques used to mea­sure […]
  • UT Receives NSF Award to Commercialize Discovery
  • Jimmy Mays, a chemistry professor at UT Knoxville, has developed a substance that promises to replace conventional rubber in many products with something that is stronger, greener, and easier to recycle. Now he’s joining forces with the College of Business Administration’s Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation to turn his new discovery into a game-changing […]
  • Jenkins Group Paper Highlighted in RSC Blog
  • The Jenkins Group published a paper entitled “Exploiting a Dimeric Silver Transmetallating Reagent to Synthesize Macrocyclic Tetracarbene Complexes“in Chemical Science. The paper was also highlighted in the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Chemical Science blog. The paper, co-authored by Zheng Lu, Alan Cramer and David Jenkins, showcases a general synthetic method to prepare macrocyclic tetracarbenes […]
  • Professor Camden Received NSF CAREER Award
  • Jon Camden, an assistant professor of analytical chemistry at UTK, has been announced as a recipient of the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. CAREER award is one of “the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the […]
  • Professor Baker Named 2012 ACS Fellow
  • David Baker, Professor of Chemistry Department is inducted into the 2012 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society. As stated in a letter issued by the Chair of ACS Fellows Oversight Committee, Dr. John Adams, “ACS Fellows are nominated by their peers and selected for their achievements in […]
  • Charles Sun Published in ACS NANO
  • Qi (Charles) Sun, a graduate student in Professor Musfeldt’s Group, published an article in ACS NANO, a monthly journal that provides an international forum for the communication of comprehensive articles on nanoscience and nanotechnology research. * In the article Spectroscopic Signature of the Superparamagnetic Transition and Surface Spin Disorder in CoFe2O4 Nanoparticles, the researchers measured the infrared vibrational properties of […]
  • Department Welcomes 2012 SURP Students
  • Today the Chemistry Department hosted a reception to welcome 6 students participating in 2012 Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP). The students will be working with chemistry faculty members and graduate students for 10 weeks this summer to gain the research experience and skills necessary for their future career and furthur education in the field of […]
  • Chemistry Department Held 2012 Honors Day
  • UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS CRC Press General Chemistry Award – Russell T. Smith C. W. Keenan Outstanding General Chemistry Student Award – Emma K. Hollmann Dr. Lucy E. Scroggie Scholarship – Desta D. Bume C. A. Buehler Chemistry Scholarship – Burton K. Mandrell East Tennessee Section, ACS, Award – Britta A. Johnson Hach Foundation Scholarship – Maria […]
  • A Chemist in the Making
  • Someone who looks at Britta Johnson’s resume will find a number of impressive achievements, including several semesters of undergraduate research in the University of Tennessee’s Department of Chemistry. In recognition of her research efforts, Johnson was awarded a Best Presentation prize during UT’s 2012 Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EUReCA). The project she […]
  • UT Chemistry: World Top 20
  • A report funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Science listed University of Tennessee as one of the World’s Top 20 universities with their analytical chemistry articles most cited in 2007.
  • Undergraduate Chemistry Major Receives Summer Internship
  • Chris Freye, a rising senior in the Chemistry undergraduate program, and a member of the Chancellor’s Honor Program received 2012 undergraduate summer research internship from the UT Office of Undergraduate Research. Freye will be working in Professor Sepaniak‘s lab on a project labeled Advanced Separation Techniques Employing a Novel Means of Detection. “I will be […]
  • Chemistry Board of Visitors Chair Received The Henry Hill Award from ACS
  • Dr. Diane Grob Schmidt, UT Chemistry Alumnus and Chair of the Chemistry Department Board of Visitors (2011-12) received The Henry Hill Award presented by the American Chemical Society Division of Professional Relations during 2012 ACS National Meeting held in San Diego, CA on March 27. Schmidt was recognized for her services and leadership in ACS […]
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