UChicago chemists invent faster, cheaper technique to turn isoxazoles into pyrroles, a building block for medicines

Prof. Lindsay Soh and John Oramas ’27 seek greener methods to extract compound to make bio-based polymers

Encouraging the advancement of chemistry in all its branches, to support research in chemical science and industry and promote the careers of chemists.

The 2026 International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS) announced the inaugural ICBS Medal and the Frontiers of Science Award winners at Tsinghua University.Nine distinguished scientists from around the world received the ICBS Medal: Claire Voisin, Horng-Tzer Yau, and Shou-Wu Zhang in mathematics; Andrea J. Liu, Yifang Wang, and Xiao-Gang Wen in physics; and Zhenan Bao, Xiaowei Zhuang, and Feng Zhang in engineering.

To enable next-generation energy devices like fuel cells and water electrolyzers, researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) collaborated with scientists at New York University to study the backbone chemistry of different types of ion-exchange membranes to better understand how their chemical make-up governs their structure and ability. They found that the nanostructures within these membranes evolve when water passes through and are affected by the stiffness of the polymer backbone. Different backbone architectures promote distinct...

The honor recognizes mid-career faculty members and supports their career development at UVA.

Scientists have cracked a long-standing chemistry problem, creating nanocrystals from tough metal nitrides that were previously extremely difficult to produce at this scale. The breakthrough could turn familiar materials used in LEDs, implants, and superconductors into building blocks for flexible electronics, printable devices, and other technologies.

UF researchers Katy Serafin, Grace John, Henry Adams, Yixin Wen and Austin Evans recognized by the National Science Foundation.

ACS Fall 2026 is underway in Chicago, where MIT Prof. Connor Coley delivered the Kavli Foundation Lecture on Monday with an urgent call to separate genuine AI drug discovery progress from hype. More than 10,000 chemists have registered for the five-day meeting, which also features four Nobel

During the 2026 fiscal year, a number of faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis were promoted from associate professor with tenure to full professor.

The winners are being acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields in the discipline

Geoffrey Coates was named a co-winner of the prestigious Balzan Prize for his work transforming renewable feedstocks and recovered carbon dioxide into high-performance, degradable and recyclable materials.

Encouraging the advancement of chemistry in all its branches, to support research in chemical science and industry and promote the careers of chemists.

Xiaowei Zhuang, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2023 D...

Héctor D. Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, is the recipient of the 2025 Dreyf...

Cal State Fullerton’s Office of Faculty Affairs and Records announced the tenure and/or promotion of 71 faculty members. Recipients are listed by college with their new titles, effective Aug. 17.  Promotion ArtsCarol Ashley, professor of artDustin Barr, professor of music Katherine Reed, professor of musicJamie Tucker, professor of theatre and dance Business and EconomicsMohammad Habibi, professor […]

Short films that communicate the depth and breadth of chemistry's impact on humankind.

Two new studies explain why certain nitrogenases are the most efficient at converting nitrogen gas into ammonia. The findings could help guide the engineering of enzymes or catalysts that can convert nitrogen gas to ammonia.

A wearable patch can detect environmental hazards and notify wearers by vibrating against their skin.

Work led by chemists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is showing that there is a different way to think about designing reactions. Their fundamentally novel strategy, published recently in Nature, fixes a long-standing limitation in electron-transfer selectivity, could open up many otherwise inaccessible and potentially valuable coupling reactions.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Oct. 8 awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi

National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $20 million to COAST PCL to combine robotics, AI and advanced instruments, allowing researchers to conduct experiments anywhere

Binghamton University researchers uncover a reaction pathway that changes two neighboring carbon atoms in a single step

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Northwestern University $20 million over four years to establish the nation’s first publicly accessible, AI-powered cloud laboratory for protein engineering.

13 researchers receive an additional $25,000 each to build research skills

Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, is the recipient of the 2025 Dreyfus ...

59 new fellows are honored for their contributions to science and the society