Chemistry alumna, Dr. Carol Ensigner (T'82, G'88), discusses her love of chemical education, her bond with Emeritus Professor Pelham Wilder, and her desire to break barriers in teaching in a recent Duke Forward article available here. 

Professor Weitao Yang has been named an Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society.  This is the highest honor that the organization bestows, and the total number of recipients is limited to 100 worldwide.  The title was conferred in recognition of Prof. Yang's contribution to the development of the field of theoretical chemistry as a whole as well as the development of Chemistry in China.

Yang Yang, recent graduate of Weitao Yang's lab, has received the 2016 Outstanding Dissertation Award in Theoretical Chemistry at the National Conference of Quantum Chemistry.  The award was presented in Dalian, China for the dissertation "Ground and Electronic Excited States from Pairing Matrix Fluctuation and Particle-Particle Random Phase Approximation".

The Department of Chemistry is pleased to congratulate the recipients of the 2017-2018 Fellowship Awards:

Joe Taylor Adams 

Anita Donlic (Hargrove Group)

Charles Bradsher

Qiwei Han (Liu Group)

Burroughs Wellcome

Professor Patrick Charbonneau's collaborations with French scientists are solving the glass-problem.  Read more about this work in an interview with Professor Charbonneau on the Office for Science & Technology at the Embassy of France in the United States' webpage here.