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• 2026
• 10/07/26 NSM Chemist Thomas Teets Appointed to Prestigious Welch Chair
• 09/25/26 Naihao Chiang Receives 2026 Peter Mark Memorial Award
• 09/15/26 91ÊÓƵ Awarded $1.26M NIH Grant to Outsmart Superbugs
• 09/01/26 Department of Energy Awards UH-led Team $2.88M to Use AI to Strengthen America’s Critical Mineral Supply Chain
• 07/13/26 New Imaging Technology Tracks Cellular Roots of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS
• 05/14/26 NSM Celebrates 909 Graduates at Spring 2026 Commencement
• 03/03/26 Shoujun Xu Appointed Chair of the Department of Chemistry
• 02/26/26 Three NSM Faculty Members Among UH’s Seven Senior Members Named to the National Academy of Inventors
• 02/09/26 Tai-Yen Chen Named 2026 ACS Rising Star for Pioneering Work in Cellular Imaging and Copper Biology
• 2025
• 12/19/25 NSM Celebrates 677 Graduates at Fall 2025 Commencement
• 12/18/25 91ÊÓƵ Chemist Awarded Nearly $2M to Decode Light-Activated Chemistry
• 12/11/25 UH Chemistry Professor Earns Prestigious Honor from National Academy of Inventors
• 11/21/25 UH Chemist Advances Heavy Metal-Free Synthesis with $400,000 NSF Grant
• 10/27/25 Graduate Students Showcase Cutting-Edge Research at NSM’s Three-Minute Thesis Competition
• 09/01/25 UH Chemist Named Associate Editor for Chemistry of Materials
• 06/09/25 New Dean Named for College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
• 05/05/25 Prize Winners Announced at 60th TCSUH Student Research Symposium
• 04/23/25 UH Doctoral Student Muhammad Arslan Honored with ACS POLY Travel Award
• 02/28/25 NOBCChE Establishes UH Student Chapter
• 2024
• 10/04/24 Chemistry Alumnus Kang Min Ok Selected for 2024 MSIT Global Leader Research Project
• 08/29/24 Chemistry Professor Receives Prestigious Cottrell Plus SEED Research Award
• 06/17/24 Halasyamani and Poeppelmeier Paper Reaches 1,000 Citations; Named to Chemistry of Materials 1k Club
• 05/09/24 Chemistry Alumna, Shruti Hariyani, Named Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow
• 05/06/24 Chemistry Postdoc Said Jalife Jacobo Named Research Corporation for Science Advancement Fellow
• 03/28/24 UH Chemist Receives CAREER Award to Advance Development of Biodegradable Plastics
• 03/14/24 Summer Program Builds Next-Generation Cardiovascular Researchers
• 2023
• 12/15/23 American Chemical Society Honors UH Chemist for Work to Promote STEM
• 10/30/23 UH Chemist Melissa Zastrow Receives Saltman Award for Research in Bioinorganic Chemistry
• 09/14/23 UH Research Team Awarded $4M to Convert Plastic Waste into Useful Materials
• 09/13/23 With $5 Million Grant, The Welch Center for Advanced Bioactive Materials Crystallization is Formed at 91ÊÓƵ
• 08/24/23 Inside NSM: Microscope Lab
• 07/19/23 Unlocking the Power of Molecular Crystals: A Possible Solution to Nuclear Waste
• 06/29/23 Chemistry Alumna, Thao Tran, Receives Beckman Young Investigator Award
• 06/08/23 Daugulis Receives EROS Best Reagent Award
• 06/07/23 Croix Laconsay Chosen for American Chemical Society CAS Future Leaders Program
• 05/24/23 CAREER Award Benefits UH Chemist’s Research into Brain Cells and Degenerative Diseases
• 05/16/23 Chemistry Ph.D. Graduate Shruti Hariyani Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
• 05/03/23 Two Chemistry Graduate Students Win First and Second Prizes at TcSUH Student Research Symposium
• 02/02/23 CAREER Award Opens New Opportunities for Chemist to Study the Roles of Metals in the Gastrointestinal Tract
• 01/31/23 UH Scientist Eric Bittner Elected as AAAS Fellow
• 2022
• 07/11/22 Shruti Hariyani, Chemistry Ph.D. Student, Receives P.E.O. Scholar Award
• 05/26/22 Bittner Named Ulam Scholar at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 04/12/22 Inside NSM: Glass Shop
• 03/08/22 New Imaging Technique Could Lead to Better Treatment of Cancers, Viral Infections
• 03/07/22 Chemistry Faculty Member Aims to Develop Precise Cell Delivery Technology
• 01/12/22 Hariyani: A Shining Star at UH’s Chemistry Department
• 2021
• 12/22/21 UH Researchers Publish Study on Student Engagement Before and After Pandemic
• 12/06/21 Chemist and Biologist Develop Technique to Measure Molecular Binding Strength
• 09/17/21 Harth Named American Chemical Society Fellow
• 08/19/21 Chemistry Ph.D. Grad Ponnapati Recognized as OTC Emerging Leader
• 07/19/21 May Receives Chemical Synthesis NSF Grant for Carbon Bond Forming Research
• 06/02/21 Farmer and Chen Honored with Butler Excellence in Teaching Award
• 05/25/21 Building a Better Bulb
• 05/18/21 Ya Zhuo Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
• 05/12/21 Hariyani and Brgoch Receive 2021 Chemistry of Materials Lectureship and Best Paper Award
• 03/08/21 Chemistry Student Awarded NSF Grant to Explore Large Crystal Growth
• 03/02/21 Chemistry Associate Professor Finds Fundamental Behavioral Difference in Methanol Thin Films
• 01/25/21 Riddhiman Medhi Receives Dan E. Wells Outstanding Dissertation Award
• 01/14/21 Destination: United States Space Force
• 2020
• 12/17/20 Machine Learning Boosts the Search for ‘Superhard’ Materials
• 09/09/20 UH Receives Funding from NSF to Create Center for Integrated Catalysis
• 09/03/20 Jakoah Brgoch Wins 2020 NSM Junior Faculty Award
• 08/26/20 Welch Foundation Provides Thousands in Research Grants to Chemistry Department
• 08/19/20 Inventing New Tools to Peer into the Gastrointestinal Tract
• 07/06/20 In Memoriam: Dr. James Reed Cox, Jr.
• 05/05/20 Project Will Expand Use of Metal Catalysts for Drug Discovery
• 04/13/20 Ph.D. Student Makes Strides in Understanding Photostability of Molecules
• 04/09/20 Associate Chemistry Professor Finds New, Unexpected Result in 2D Material
• 03/09/20 ‘Deceptively Simple’ Process Could Boost Plastics Recycling
• 02/12/20 Two UH Chemists Are Named 2020 Sloan Research Fellows
• 2019
• 11/20/19 New Hybrid Device Can Both Capture and Store Solar Energy
• 10/23/19 Changing How Chemists Think About Textbook Chemical Concepts
• 10/11/19 Chemists Shine a Light on Well-Known Chemical Reactions
• 09/16/19 Is Copper a Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease?
• 08/20/19 Inside Research: Welch-UH Center Director Sets Sights on ‘Broader Scope’ of Polymer Research
• 08/15/19 Porous Molecular Crystals: Applications in Storage, Recycling and Sensing
• 07/05/19 Teets Receives Two NSM Faculty Awards
• 06/26/19 UH Researcher Reports the Way Sickle Cells Form May be Key to Stopping Them
• 05/15/19 Visualizing Different Protein Forms in Cells
• 03/11/19 NSF CAREER Awards: A Track Record of Success in the Chemistry Department
• 02/20/19 UH Chemist Earns CAREER Award for Work in Luminescence
• 02/11/19 Peer Writing Group: Student-Led Success
• 01/25/19 UH Chemists Report New Class of Polyethylene Catalyst
• 2018
• 12/21/18 Daugulis and Ren Recognized for Influential Work
• 12/13/18 UH Chemist Focuses on Materials for LED Lighting
• 11/27/18 Three 91ÊÓƵ Chemists Elected to AAAS
• 10/22/18 New Algorithm Can More Quickly Predict LED Materials
• 09/21/18 Chiral Oxygen Heterocycles: New Avenues for Drug Synthesis
• 09/04/18 Miljanic Awarded Humboldt Foundation Fellowship
• 08/28/18 Brgoch Receives ACS-GHS Younger Chemist Award
• 07/30/18 Experimental and Theoretical: Pushing Boundaries in Solid-State Chemistry
• 06/28/18 Miljanic Awarded Max Kade Foundation Fellowship
• 06/18/18 Bittner Receives Leverhulme Award
• 06/04/18 Loi Do Awarded 2018 NSM Junior Faculty Award
• 05/02/18 Chemistry Graduate Student Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• 04/17/18 Organic Thin Films: Teflon-like Properties
• 04/02/18 Harth Receives Gutenberg Chair Award
• 03/21/18 Nanomaterials Hold Promise for Producing Hydrogen from Water
• 03/02/18 Recycling Anesthetics: Applications for Porous Molecular Crystals
• 02/23/18 UH Chemist Judy Wu Receives NSF CAREER Award for Hydrogen Bond Research
• 02/20/18 Researcher Focuses on Environmentally Friendly Plastics
• 02/09/18 Luminescent Materials: Learning to Glow
• 01/03/18 Samsung Funds Exploratory Research
• 2017
• 11/06/17 $450K NSF Grant Funds Fundamental Research in Quantum Physics
• 10/25/17 UH Chemist to Oversee New Journal for Nanomaterials
• 10/12/17 Teets Awarded ACS-GHS Younger Chemist Award
• 09/20/17 Lubchenko Wins ACS-GHS Hightower Award
• 08/17/17 Daugulis Awarded 4-Year $1.2 Million NIH Grant
• 08/01/17 Kadish Wins Inaugural SCF French-American Prize
• 07/11/17 Gilbertson Selected as ACS Fellow
• 03/29/17 Algorithm Offers Predictive Power for Electron Transfer Theory
• 02/15/17 Jerry Yang: NSF CAREER Award Recipient
• 02/08/17 ACS Student Chapter Recognized as Outstanding
• 01/25/17 Bittner Named American Physical Society Fellow
• 2016
• 11/16/16 Ph.D. Student in Chemistry Awarded Inaugural Axalta Achievement Scholarship
• 10/26/16 Hanah Na: On Path to Becoming Independent Researcher
• 10/25/16 College Mourns Passing of John Bear, NSM Dean 1992-2010
• 10/03/16 Fuel for the Future: Using Sunlight to Split Water
• 2015
• 12/21/15 ACS Student Chapter Recognized as Outstanding
• 12/10/15 ACS Younger Chemist Award
• 11/09/15 UH Researchers Design Material with Potential Use in Solid-State Lasers
• 09/24/15 National Academy Member Maurice Brookhart Joins UH Chemistry
• 2014
• 10/23/14 Clinical Trials of Anti-Cancer Drug PT-112 Begin in U.S.
• 10/22/14 Halasyamani Wins Roy-Somiya Award
• 10/21/14 UH Chemists Develop Porous Molecules that Bind Greenhouse Gases
• 09/02/14 Daugulis Named Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry
• 08/29/14 Chemist Jakoah Brgoch Works to Develop Energy-Efficient Materials
• 07/31/14 Dr. Daugulis Named 2014 ACS Cope Scholar
• 07/08/14 Chemistry Grad Tho Tran Receives Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
• 06/13/14 UH Business Plan Team Wins Big at National Contest
• 05/29/14 Jeremy May: NSF CAREER Award Recipient
• 05/14/14 Three Chemistry Faculty Honored at UH Faculty Excellence Luncheon
• 04/17/14 Ognjen Miljanic: Featured in CrystEngComm
• 01/29/14 New Theory May Lead to More Efficient Solar Cells
• 2013
• 12/10/13 Graduate Student Arati Kohlatkar Lead Author of Published Review
• 09/24/13 Award Recognizing Excellence in Organic Chemistry
• 09/19/13 University Receives $4 Million to Launch New Chemistry Initiative
• 09/04/13 Yang Awarded Welch Professorship by TcSUH
• 07/16/13 Daugulis' Research Highlighted in C&E News and JACS Spotlight
• 03/15/13 UH Chemist, Ognjen Miljanic, Selected as a Cottrell Scholar
• 02/18/13 91ÊÓƵ Chemist Devises Effective Methods for Creating Useful Compounds
• 02/15/13 UTMB, UH Team Up to Study Brain Chemistry
• 2012
• 10/18/12 Daugulis' New Way to Make 2-Arylphenols Published in Chemical Science
• 08/02/12 Microscope provides an improved technique for chemical imaging of surfaces.
• 07/17/12 Achieving Superconductivity Near Room Temperature Goal of Collaborative Effort
• 07/11/12 Kadish Receives Hans Fischer Career Award in Porphyrin Chemistry
• 05/31/12 May's Research Highlighted in Nature Chemistry
• 02/16/12 Award Honors Promising Junior Faculty Members
• 02/03/12 Sun Woo Kim Receives Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship
• 2011
• 09/02/11 Miljanic's Research Highlighted in Nature Chemistry
• 05/09/11 UH Chemist Investigates Material for Next-Generation Computer Memory
• 05/06/11 Two Students Named Goldwater Scholars, Two Receive Honorable Mention
• 2010
• 08/24/10 Seal of Approval: UH in Exclusive Company With High ACS Marks
• 08/24/10 Two UH Chemists Receive National Recognition
• 05/01/10 UH Chemist Wins Accolades For Pioneering Nanoparticle Research
• 2009
• 01/05/09 Prof. Halasyamani Received Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award
• 01/04/09 Prof. Daugulis Received Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award
• 01/02/09 Prof. Guloy Received Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award
• 01/02/09 Prof. Bittner Received John and Rebecca Moores Professor
• 2008
• 08/02/08 Prof. Bittner Received Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award
• 04/15/08 UH Chemist is One of America's Rising Stars in Science
• 04/14/08 Simplifying Manufacture of Drugs, Plastics Earns UH Chemist Top Honor
• 01/01/08 Prof. Bott Received Provost Faculty Advising Award