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Dynamic and diverse with excellent research facilities and a strong international and interdisciplinary collaborative profile. We engage and work with multiple partners (academic and industry) to enhance the impact of our research with research funding from a range of sources.

Our research covers all aspects of chemistry ranging from basic laboratory science to applied research that impacts on many aspects of modern life, such as new chemical compounds for energy conversion and storage, advanced materials such as liquid crystals, exotic magnets and superconductors, drug discovery/medicinal chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and environmental and analytical sciences. We have strong links with industry, which is reflected by major industrial sponsorship to fund research.

Our aim is to conduct chemical research that ranks among the best in the UK and internationally. Example areas of research strength include Advanced Materials, Energy, Environment and Health, resulting in high quality research outputs including papers in Nature Materials, Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, and 18 patents for a range of applications including a new proton conducting membrane, novel catalysts and treatments and diagnostic agents for Alzheimer’s disease.

In REF2021, 95% of our submission was rated as world beating or internationally excellent. Our research environment was judged to be 100% world leading or internationally excellent and we are ranked joint first for world leading research impact in Scotland.

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Dynamic and diverse with excellent research facilities and a strong international and interdisciplinary collaborative profile. We engage and work with multiple partners (academic and industry) to enhance the impact of our research with research funding from a range of sources.

Our research covers all aspects of chemistry ranging from basic laboratory science to applied research that impacts on many aspects of modern life, such as new chemical compounds for energy conversion and storage, advanced materials such as liquid crystals, exotic magnets and superconductors, drug discovery/medicinal chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and environmental and analytical sciences. We have strong links with industry, which is reflected by major industrial sponsorship to fund research.

Our aim is to conduct chemical research that ranks among the best in the UK and internationally. Example areas of research strength include Advanced Materials, Energy, Environment and Health, resulting in high quality research outputs including papers in Nature Materials, Nature Chemical Biology, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, and 18 patents for a range of applications including a new proton conducting membrane, novel catalysts and treatments and diagnostic agents for Alzheimer’s disease.

In REF2021, 95% of our submission was rated as world beating or internationally excellent. Our research environment was judged to be 100% world leading or internationally excellent and we are ranked joint first for world leading research impact in Scotland.

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The Department of Chemistry was established in 1793 and is an outward looking, vibrant and diverse department with a strong international collaborative profile.

We are proud to have been ranked first in Scotland for research impact in REF2021 , driving exciting breakthroughs in new medicines, energy, functional materials, catalysis, biomaterials, and the environment. 95% of our research is rated as world leading or internationally excellent .

We have excellent research facilities and engage and work with multiple partners (academic and industry) to enhance the impact of our research. Our research environment was judged to be 100% world leading or internationally excellent in REF2021 .

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Chemistry students recognized by the 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Two University of Iowa Department of Chemistry students have received fellowships from the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) and one has earned an honorable mention.

Fellowship Recipients are:

• Samantha Kruse, advised by Professors Forbes and MacGillivray
• Lillian Jones, advised by Professor Stone

Honorable mentions are:

• Andrej Corkovic, advised by Professor Williams

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes individuals who have demonstrated their potential for significant research achievements in STEM or STEM education. Fellows receive three years of financial support as well as access to opportunities for professional development. As the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the GRFP has a long history of selecting recipients who achieve high levels of success in their future academic and professional careers. The reputation of the GRFP follows recipients and often helps them become lifelong leaders who contribute significantly to both scientific innovation and teaching. NSF Fellows are anticipated to become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering. These individuals are crucial to maintaining and advancing the nation’s technological infrastructure and national security as well as contributing to the economic well-being of society at large.

Samantha Kruse is a second-year graduate student in the Forbes and MacGillivray groups. Her research, which is at the interface of radiation chemistry and materials science, focuses on developing solid organic materials to mitigate high ionizing radiation structural defects. Her goal is to develop a structure-function relationship to rationally design materials for applications in long-lasting radiation detectors, nuclear waste containment, and space science.

Lillian Jones is a senior B.S. chemistry major graduating in May with honors. Her research is in atmospheric chemistry with a focus on bioaerosols. Her work as an undergraduate has included the characterization of atmospheric pollen fragments during extreme weather events and the assessment of the spatial variability of aeroallergens in Johnson County. She will be attending Colorado State University to study biosphere-atmosphere exchanges.

Andrej Corkovic is a second-year graduate student in the Williams group. His research focuses on activating C–H bonds on alcohol substrates by using borylnitrenes. In the future, he would like to pursue a career in academia.