Caltech Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Take a peek inside Kayane Dingilian, PhD's office where a chemistry renaissance blossoms alongside World of Warcraft figurines, interesting chemistry paraphernalia and more! https://lnkd.in/gGsFsWbJ

👉This week in the C&EN Magazine: Frances H. Arnold forges ahead + Green glues: Will they stick? + How rising temperatures affect the human brain: https://lnkd.in/eMY7XhHk

On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, we celebrated our 2025 ACS National Award winners at the ACS national conference in San Diego. 🔶  Frances H. Arnold, 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient and Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry was awarded the Priestley Medal 🔷  Gregory C. Fu, the Norman Chandler Professor of Chemistry received the Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis 🔶  Brian M. Stoltz, the Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, was honored with the Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods Congratulations to you all! 📸 : Jonas C. Peters

In memory of Donald Voet (BS '60), the Voet family generously supports a range of initiatives to make science more accessible to students from all backgrounds.

Congratulations to Mike Vicic on being awarded The Shirley M. Malcom Prize for Excellence in Mentoring! Vicic is a teaching professor in chemical engineering. Students who nominated Vicic praised him for helping them build confidence in themselves. Outside of the classroom, Vicic was noted for assisting students with everything from course selection and study skills to interviewing for jobs and utilizing Caltech's alumni network to help them select graduate schools or careers. Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/gXuptZtk

Scott Cushing and Ryan Hadt have been selected to receive Sloan Research Fellowships in 2025! The fellowships "honor exceptional researchers at US and Canadian educational institutions, whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders." Recipients are awarded a two-year $75,000 stipend that can be used flexibly to advance the fellow's research. https://lnkd.in/ghymvsWG

Zhen-Gang Wang has been elected as a member to the National Academy of Engineering Class of 2025 for unifying theories of thermodynamic and transport properties of polymers to predict phase behavior, self-assembly, and nucleation. NAE members are among the nation’s most knowledgeable engineering experts and election to the NAE is one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer. Congratulations Zhen-Gang! #NAE2025 https://lnkd.in/gbTTCxry

Former chemical engineering professor Fred Shair, who founded Caltech's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program in 1979, died January 16. He was 88 years old. https://lnkd.in/gJFW687g

Our Winter 2025 Newsletter is now out! 📰 We're covering: -Newly published research -The Career of Alison Ross, our Chemistry Graduate Option Manager who has served the Institute for 30+ years - Introduction of two new faculty members - Recaps of Division events + more!

Prof. Rustem Ismagilov, Caltech's Ethel Wilson Bowles and Robert Bowles Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Merkin Institute Professor, and director of the Jacobs Institute for Molecular Engineering for Medicine, has received a four-year grant to develop two innovative tools that hold the promise of greatly improving scientists' ability to detect, sequence, and identify viruses. His lab has a long history of developing precise quantitative measurements of biological entities down to the single-molecule level, including in complex sample types such as human biopsy samples. https://lnkd.in/g6MU-kTZ