The French Family Science Center, home to the Department of Chemistry, is both a striking example of modern industrial architecture and also a cutting-edge research facility.
News & Announcements
Alvin L. Crumbliss, Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the Natural Sciences,
has been appointed as the new Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor of Chemistry and as a member of the Bass Society of Fellows, effective July 1, 2008. Congratulations to Prof. [more info]
Prof. Jie Liu's laboratory
has reported a new method for fabricating dense arrays of oriented, single-walled carbon nanotubes. The ability to make large numbers of identical nanotubes would allow future nanoengineers to bundle them onto multiple ultra-tiny chips that could operate with enough power and speed for nanoprocessing. [more info]
We are pleased to welcome Patrick Charbonneau,
who will join the Department of Chemistry this fall as an Assistant
Professor. Dr. Charbonneau is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the FOM
Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, [more info]