Current Chemistry

  We are pleased to share that Assistant Professor Nate Oldenhuis has received the National Institutes of Health R35 Maximizing Investigators' Research Award! His project is entitled: Using DNA hydrogels to mimic, exploit, and fundamentally investigate extracellular matrices. His…

Dr. Aylin Aykanat has been working in the Chemistry Department for the past few years as a Postdoctoral Diversity and Innovation Scholar. We are so happy to…

Congratulations to UNH Assistant Professor of Chemistry Nate Oldenhuis on his National Science Foundation CAREER Award! His research project is entitled "Sustainable DNA Hydrogel Production via Bioreactor-Derived Plasmid DNA". Read on for a description of the project. 

Chemistry graduate student Ian Ferraro (Anyin Li Group) working with collaborators Nancy Fernandes and Roger Connolly from Lonza Biologics on the analysis of therapeutic proteins using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry.

Chemistry Professor Chris Bauer is the recipient of the 2023 Distinguished Professor Award! His dedication to serving chemistry and education extends well beyond UNH, and has been especially impactful here in New Hampshire. After more than four decades of service at the University of…

In January the Chemistry Department hosted some wonderful middle schoolers from Nottingham School! They visited us to learn about chemistry and what we do in the department. We are so happy to be able to reach out to young students in our community. Who knows, maybe they'll be studying…

We are so proud of Dr. Yuan Chen for successfully defending his dissertation! His dissertation is entitled: Ratiometric Fluorescent Sensors Based on Non-covalent Crosslinked Molecular Imprinted Polymers. 

Congratulations to our Ph.D and Master's students that graduated this Spring and Summer: Dr. Alexa Green, Dr. Ehab Shaaban, Dr. Mary Sheppard, Dr. Nicholas Pollak, Dr. Sonja Gamby, Dr. Taoqiing Wang, Dr. Vahid Hosseinpour Hashemi, Dr. Leonid Povolotskiy, Dr. Huishan Li, Dr. Peiyuan Zhao, Dr.…

CJ Wilson is a Ph.D. student studying chemistry here at the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences. His research includes combatting climate change with hybrid photocatalytic systems and electrocatalytic systems that turn elements such as sunlight or CO2 into clean fuel.…

We are so proud of all of our amazing undergraduates that participated in the Undergraduate Research Conference and presented at the ISE Symposium this year! Congratulations to Somkene 'DK' Alakwe (pictured) and Kelsey MacCallum on winning prizes for their research!

It is with heartfelt best wishes that we, the Department of Chemistry, announce the retirement of Professor Rudi Seitz and Professor Richard Johnson for this academic year. They join the ranks of esteemed retirees: Prof. Art Greenberg, Prof. Sterling Tomellini, Prof. Howard Mayne, Prof. Gary…

The Awards Ceremony is truly the highlight of our year as we honor our best and brightest students, meet their families and friends, and recognize the generous support of alumni and friends of the department, both past and present. This year, we gave out over 50 different awards to deserving…