The department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Arkansas strives for excellence in research, teaching and service in chemistry—the central science. We aspire to positions of leadership regarding the discovery of new scientific knowledge, the training of students, and the economic development of the State of Arkansas. We seek to recruit and retain a diverse group of the best faculty, students and staff to address the challenges of the future through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and education. You can learn more about the department here.

 

 

News

Professor Suresh Kumar Thallapuranam Receives $435,226 DHHS-NIGMS Grant Award for Hyperstable FGF1-FGF2 Based Therapeutic Formulation for Wound Care
Assistant Professor Bin Dong Receives $40,000 SACP Starter Grant and $110,000 ACS PRF Grant
Professor Jack Lay Receives $634,526 MRI Grant for New Mass Spectrometer
Graduate Student Eugene Agyemang Awarded Travel Grant to Present Research in Kigali, Rwanda
Graduate Student Rudy Acosta Awarded Two-Year NSF Research Traineeship Program Fellowship
Graduate Student Mostafa Mahmoudi Awarded Barrett S. and Peggy S. Duff Doctoral Fellowship in Chemistry
Assistant Professor Maggie He Receives $238,845 NIH R21 Grant for Graphene Covalent Grids for Single-particle Cryo-EM
Professor Mahmoud Moradi Receives Outstanding Researcher Award, Matt Gerner Receives Outstanding Instructor Award
Associate Professor Neil Allison Receives 2024 Di Brezzo Award
Assistant Professor Dylan Girodat Awarded 2024 Connor Faculty Fellowship
Chemistry Undergraduate Student Ethan Batey Receives Barry Goldwater Scholarship

DEPARTMENTAL EVENTS

Departmental seminars are held on Mondays from 3-4PM in CHEM 144
AUG 26 2024 | No Seminar – CHEM Graduate Student Town Hall Meeting
SEP 02 2024 | No Seminar – Labor Day Holiday
SEP 9 2024 | Jiang Wang, Eli Lilly and Company – "Development of a Photoredox Catalyzed Reductive Desulfonylation for the Synthesis of LY3556050"
SEP 16 2024 | Nicholas Fitzkee, Mississippi State University – "Improving Therapeutic Nanoparticle Performance with Physical Chemistry"
SEP 23 2024 | Bo Zhang, University of Washington – "Chemical Imaging at the Electrochemical Interface"
SEP 30 2024 | Rob Coridan, University of Arkansas – "Designing Self-assembled Photoelectrodes to Improve Light Absorption and Mass Transport in Ultra-thin Film Semiconductors"
OCT 7 2024 | Jorge L. Colón, University of Puerto Rico – "Electrocatalysis and Drug Delivery Using Layered Zirconium Phosphate Nanomaterials"
OCT 14 2024 | No Seminar – Fall Break
OCT 21 2024 | Jingwei Xie, University of Nebraska Medical Center– "Engineering New Forms of Electrospun Nanofiber Materials for Biomedical Applications"
OCT 28 2024 | Shelley Minteer, Missouri University of Science and Technology – "Enzymatic Bioelectrocatalysis for Electrosynthesis"
NOV 04 2024 | David Wipf, Mississippi State University
NOV 11 2024 | Lyudmila Slipchenko, Purdue University
NOV 18 2024 | Jędrzej Piątek, Krakow Institute of Technology
NOV 25 2024 | No Seminar – Week of Thanksgiving Break