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Temple Chemistry News Archive

Ross Wang receives an NSF CAREER Award, a Scialog "Chemical Machinery of the Cell" Award, and a 2021 Dean's Distinguished Teaching Award.
​​Department alum Sierra Williams (Chemistry BS 2016) was recently named one of Temple's 30 Under 30.
​​The Professor Rodrigo Andrade Memorial Endowed Lecture Fund has been established to honor the memory of our colleague.  Please click here to donate.
Graduate student Christopher Absil receives a National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Fellowship.
Ann Valentine receives the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award.
Ross Wang is named a Cottrell Scholar.
Elizabeth Cerkez receives the ​Italia-Eire Foundation Distinguished Teacher  of the Year Award.
We are no longer requiring the GRE (general or subject) as part of our graduate admissions process.  Apply now!
The department welcomes Daniel Kim, our newest Organic/Biological Chemistry faculty member.
Congratulations to Graham Dobereiner, Bob Rarig, Kallie Willets, and Mike Zdilla on their promotions!
Vince Voelz helps fight COVID-19 as part of the Folding@home team.  Click to learn how you can help.
Congratulations to all of our graduating chemistry and biochemistry majors!  We are so proud of you!  Perseverance conquers!
Eric Borguet receives the Morino Lectureship in Japan.
Ross Wang receives a $1.95M MIRA grant from the NIH.
Rod Andrade is promoted from Associate Professor to Full Professor.
Roy Keyer wins the ​2019 ACS Philadelphia Section Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in the Chemical Sciences.
Brandon Presley, CST'10 and current Chemistry Ph.D. candidate, is featured in C&E News.
Graham Dobereiner receives the William Caldwell Memorial Distinguished Teaching Award.
Sarah Wengryniuk is named the Italia-Eire Foundation Distinguished Teacher of the Year.
Ann Valentine is promoted to full professor.
Congratulations to Sarah Wengryniuk on receiving an NSF CAREER award.
The chemistry department welcomes our newest biochemistry faculty member, Carol Manhart.
Steve Fleming wins the 2018 Philadelphia Section ACS Award for Excellence in Under-graduate Teaching
David Dalton's new book  "The Chemistry of Wine: From Blossom to Beverage and Beyond" is now available.
Mike Zdilla receives the Dean's Distinguished Excellence in Mentoring Award.
Vince Voelz is promoted to associate professor.  
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The spring/summer department newsletter is available.  Click here to see what's happening in Temple Chemistry.
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Owen O'Sullivan (Zdilla Lab) wins the Student-Elected University of Pennsylvania Prize and Akila Thenuwara (Strongin Lab) wins First Place at the ACS Philadelphia Section Younger Chemists' Committee poster session.
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Congratulations to Chey Jones '17 and Darius Vrubilauskas '15 on being awarded 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.
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Prof. Ann Valentine receives the CST Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award.
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Prof. Spiridoula Matsika receives the CST Dean’s Distinguished Award for Excellence in Research.
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A multi-university team co-headed by Dean Mike Klein receives a $20 million award for brain injury research.
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​Prof. Bill Wuest has been awarded one of the inaugural NIH Early Stage Investigator Maximizing Investigator’s Research Awards (NIH ESI MIRA) by the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences
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Welcome to our newest faculty member, Ross Wang, who joins the department with interests in chemical biology and organic synthesis.
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Congratulations to our undergraduate students who received chemistry awards this year!  Click here for the complete list.
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Congratulations to all of the 2016 Temple Chemistry graduates!  One of our new graduates, Kyle Knouse, was featured in this recent article.
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Steven Fleming receives the Lindback Award for teaching excellence and originality.
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Graham Dobereiner receives the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI) Pharmaceutical Roundtable Award.
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Ron Levy is recognized with a special Festschrift issue of Protein Science.  Click here to see the Table of Contents and here to read Ron's recollections of his years as a computational chemist.
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Yugang Sun is recognized as one of the 2015 Highly Cited Researchers in Materals Science by Thomson-Reuters.
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Bill Wuest gives a lecture at the Wagner Institute of Free Science on February 18th titled "When Bugs Outsmart Drugs: The Effects of America's Antibiotic Obsession."
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Scott Sieburth is elected secretary of the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
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Mike Klein is elected as a 2015 AAAS Fellow in recognition of his contributions to advancing science.
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Research from the Strongin and Zdilla labs is featured on the cover of Langmuir.
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CNR Rao joins the department as a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Chemistry.
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John Perdew wins the John Scott award for his work on density functional theory.  An award symposium will be held November 20 in SERC 110A.
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Chemistry professors Andrew Price and Vladimira Wilent receive Dean's Distinguished Teaching Awards.
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Congratulations to Temple graduate students for receiving dissertation completion grants: Elizabeth Cerkez (Strongin lab), Vincent Spata (Matsika lab), Kimberly Jacoby (Stanley lab), Richard Brzozowski (Wuest lab), and Buddha Khatri (Sieburth lab)!
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Faculty positions available. Click here to apply.
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Temple team, led by Chemistry professor Ron Levy, awarded NIH shared-instrumentation grant.
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Steve Fleming elected 2015 ACS Fellow.

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