Meet the Chair
Chair, Professor Janice Reutt-Robey
Her research focuses on physical and chemical properties of surfaces (single crystals and supported crystallites) under controlled ultrahigh vacuum conditions. She was a founding investigator in the University of Maryland MRSEC.Optimizing Protein Folding with a Parallel-Processing, Iterative Annealing Machine
Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Professor George H. Lorimer, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Friday, May 2, 2014 Marker Seminar Room (CHM 0112), 3:00 PM
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Michael Mandler has been named a Goldwater Scholar
Chemistry and Biological Science double major, Michael Mandler has been awarded a scholarship by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation (more…)
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UMD ACS Student Chapter seeks talented help with tutoring high school students
The University of Maryland ACS Student Chapter has secured a grant to support underprivileged and underrepresented minorities in STEM. (more…)
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Professor Chris Jarzynski is the incoming Director of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST)
Professor Chris Jarzynski will become the Director of the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST) on July 1, 2014. (more…)
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Sintim and Dayie labs’ research on bacterial riboswitches featured as cover for Molecular BioSystems
Research from Sintim and Dayie labs on bacterial riboswitches that sense cyclic dinucleotides has been featured as cover for Molecular BioSystems. (more…)
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Professor Isaacs group’s recent article cited as a “very important paper” by Angewandte Chemie
The featured paper titled, "Cucurbit[7]uril⋅Guest Pair with an Attomolar Dissociation Constant" is described as a "very important paper" and will also appear as a "frontispiece" in Angewandte. Research in Professor Isaacs' laboratory is focused on basic and applied problems in the area of self-assembly.
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Zachariah and Team Formulate New Explosives Based on Nanoaluminum
Whether they are rocket propellants or fireworks, all explosives contain a fuel and an oxidizing agent. Sometimes both are in the same molecule, like in TNT; sometimes the explosive is a mixture, like Thermite. In mixtures, the smaller the particles, the higher the explosive force. (more…)
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Major volcanic eruptions may have considerably smaller effect on global climate than commonly thought
Ross Salawitch’s group in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry has published an article in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics that suggests major volcanic eruptions have considerably smaller effect on global climate than commonly thought. (more…)
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