Happy Holidays from UMass Chemistry!

Chemistry Prof. Jiahui (Chris) Wu received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how ribonucleoprotein (RNP) condensates — tiny subcellular structures made of RNAs and proteins — form, function, and sometimes malfunction! www.umass.edu/.../wu-lab-n...

Derrick Maxwell BS '14 has been awarded the 2025 CNS Early Career Alumni Award! Maxwell is the founder and CEO of Amel Energy, partnering with faculty experts inside the UMass Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS), to develop safer and greener materials for the energy storage industry.

Chemistry Prof. Jianhan Chen and postdoctoral researcher Shanlong Li have developed a new, publicly available tool called iConRNA that offers a unique and clear view of RNA, which may help scientists understand the causes of diseases. www.umass.edu/news/article...

This weekend's time change can disrupt our circadian rhythm for days. Chemistry Associate Professor Michelle Farkas and other experts explain interesting facts about our body's internal clock. www.umass.edu/magazine/rhy...

Graduate Program Information Session on November 18, 2025, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm EST. Learn more about our research opportunities, program structure, and vibrant academic community. The Fall 2026 admission deadline is Monday December 15, 2025.

We welcome qualified, innovative researchers to apply for our Assistant Professor position in Experimental Materials Chemistry! Applications are particularly encouraged in the area of Inorganic Materials Chemistry. Please Share! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Chemistry’s Prof. Zhou Lin, along with co-investigator Prof. Hui Guan from Computer Science, are aiming to dramatically increase the speed and accuracy of identifying molecules using AI! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...

Congratulations, Dr. Sravan Surampudi, for being selected as a Faculty Spotlight by Instructional Design, Engagement and Support (IDEAS) for enhancing student learning through a multimedia approach!

Congratulations, to our ResearchFest 2025 talk and poster winners, and all the amazing presenters!

ResearchFest 2025 highlighted the incredible research in our department! Incoming grad students spent the day connecting with faculty, peers, and alumni through research talks, poster sessions, a career panel, and a community picnic. We were also excited to welcome Chancellor Reyes this year!

Professor Craig Martin has been awarded the 2025 Mahoney Life Sciences Prize for his research synthesizing vaccine-quality RNA using a technique that enhances both its quality and yield while dramatically reducing costs!

Scott Auerbach selected to receive the lifetime honorific of Provost Professor title in recognition of exceptional achievement in research or creative activity, and in teaching! Congratulations!!

Final seminar of the semester, tomorrow Thursday 5/8 at 11:30am in LGRT 1681, Prof. Daniel Tabor will present ""Building Physics-Based and Data-Driven Methods for Efficient Molecular Design and Reaction Optimization.”

Thank you for making Chemistry's 2025 UMassGives campaign so successful!!

Seminar Tomorrow! Thursday 5/1 at 11:30am in LGRT 1681, Dr. Joshua Kritzer will present ""Chemical Biology Tools for Measuring Drug Delivery.”

UMassGives continues through today! Please consider a gift to Chemistry to support scholarships, student recruiting, and faculty hires. umass.scalefunder.com/gday/giving-...

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UMassGives starts today! Please consider a gift to Chemistry to provide additional scholarships to our talented students, to enhance student recruiting, and to hire new faculty. umass.scalefunder.com/gday/giving-...

Congratulations, to the 2025 Dr. Uche Anyanwu Memorial Fund chemistry poster session winners! Owen Ball (DV Group), Avantika Manikandan (Vachet Group), and Chris Walsh (Walsh Group)!

Seminar Tomorrow! Thursday 4/24 at 11:30am in LGRT 1681, Dr. Rachel R. Ogorzalek Loo will present "The Big Break Up—Understanding Why a Subunit or Polypeptide Abandons its Noncovalent Complex.”

Join us for Chemistry's 21st Annual Undergraduate Poster Session, Friday, April 25th from 11:30am-1:00pm in the ISB atrium. The Dr. Uche Anyanwu Memorial Fund supports prizes for the top three posters.

Seminar Tomorrow! Thursday 4/17 at 11:30am in LGRT 1681, Prof. Ryan Julian will present "Site-Specific Photodissociation Of Peptide Bonds: A New Tool For Top-Down Proteomics.”

Seminar Tomorrow! Thursday 4/10 at 11:30am in LGRT 1681, Prof. Dunwei Wang will present "Immobilizing Molecular Catalysts for Solar Fuel Synthesis and Beyond.”

Rausch Seminar Tomorrow! Thursday 4/3 at 11:30am in LGRT 1681. Prof. Matthew Shores will present "Elucidating intermolecular interactions for magnetic switching for applications in sensing and catalysis.”

Seminar Tomorrow! Thursday 3/27 at 11:30am in LGRT 1681 Prof. Ming Chen Hammond will present "A fluorogenic toolkit to study enzyme activity and inhibition in live cells.”

Congratulations, chemistry doctoral student Cristina Hirschbiegel, for winning the 2025 Three Minute Thesis (3MT)!!

Seminar Tomorrow! Thursday 3/13 at 11:30am in LGRT 1681 Prof. Richard Vachet will present "Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Nanomaterial Delivery Systems and their Biochemical Effects.”

On-campus internship opportunities at the Institute for Applied Life Sciences (IALS)!

PPG Diversity in STEM Seminar Tomorrow! Thursday 3/6 at 11:30am in LSL 330-340 with refreshments at 11am. Prof. Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. from MIT will present "A Coordination Chemistry Approach to the Design of Boron-Doped Conjugated π-Electron Materials."

Seminar Today! Thursday 2/27 at 11:30am in LGRT 1681 Prof. Prashant Jain will present "Catalysis Under The Light.”

Priyanka Bhattacharyya chosen to attend intensive light microscopy training at MDI Laboratory. www.umass.edu/ials/ials-af...

UMass Chemistry alumnus Derrick Maxwell launched a start-up to replace toxic and “forever” chemicals in battery manufacturing. www.umass.edu/gateway/rese...

Congratulations to Sparsh Makhaik (Hardy group) for being awarded an IALS Translational Graduate Student Assistantship! bit.ly/4hLqsJv

Five College Seminar Tomorrow! Thursday 2/20 at 11:30am in LSL 330/340. Prof. Daniel Nocera from Harvard will present "Bionic Leaf: Surpassing the C- and N- Fixation Processes of Nature."

AcademicWorks is a single application that considers students for chemistry, CNS, and university awards and scholarships. Open to all chemistry majors until February 19th. umass.academicworks.com