Recent News
The Chemistry Department mourns the loss of alumna, Dr. Ning Zhao
The Chemistry Department mourns the loss of our alumna, Dr. Ning Zhao. Dr. Zhao was a very successful scientist and a generous donor to Columbia University and friend to the department. We offer our heartfelt condolences to Dr. Ge Li and the rest of her family, and to her many close friends including other alumni of the department.
ACS selects Prof. Jonathan Owen for 2023 Inorganic Nanoscience Award
Prof. Owen is the 2023 recipient of the Inorganic Nanoscience Award from American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry, in recognition of exceptional research in the area of inorganic nanoscience!
'22-'23 Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Awardee - Prof. Jonathan Owen
Professor Jonathan Owen named among recipients of the 2022-2023 Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award!
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Columbia Chemistry's own Professor Wei Min has received the Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award from the SPIE
Prof. Makeda Tekle-Smith has received a Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant. The grant will support a seminar series on Organic Synthesis and Catalysis. An important boost for our department!
Professor Ged Parkin has been named an American Chemical Society's 2022 Project SEED Mentor of the Year!
Congrats to Columbia Chemistry's very own Eric Arsenault, XYZ Group, who won 21st place in the Philadelphia Marathon this weekend, among eight thousand runners worldwide!
The Department of Chemistry at Columbia University invites applications for a Biophysical Core Facility Manager, Associate Research Scientist who will serve as the manager of its shared biochemical characterization instrumentation facility.
The Chemistry Department is currently seeking a full-time Business Manager.
For more info on the position, please navigate to the URL: https://opportunities.columbia.edu/en-us/job/530490/business-manager
Congratulations to Professor Milar Delor for being recognized as a 2022 Beckman Young Investigator Awardee!
Congratulations to Prof. Wei Min for receiving the Coblentz Society Clara Craver Award!
Our very own Cottrell Scholar, Professor Luis Campos, received the 2022 SEED Award for Chemistry Research!
Congratulations to Professor Timothy Berkelbach for receiving the Department of Energy's Early Career Award!
This collaboration brought together a graduate student, two high school students, and two general chemistry faculty to develop a research based instructional intervention for teaching titrations using food acids.
Congrats to Sarah Xi (Shah Group) & Ethan Feng (Gonzalez Group), newest recipients of the Goldwater Scholarship! The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation was created by Congress in 1986