Chemistry Department at Colgate University

10/04/2018

Frances H. Arnold, George P. Smith, and Gregory P. Winter share 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

08/29/2018

Attention current chemistry students... if you have not received training from EH&S for lab safety, you will need to!

All lab students MUST attend one of the EHS training sessions in Olin Hall Room 300 (Love Auditorium) held:
8/30/2018 Thurs 3:15 PM and 4:30 PM
8/31/2018 Fri 8:30 AM and 1:30 PM and 4:00 PM
9/2/2018 Sun 5:00 PM
9/4/2018 Tues 8:30 AM and 11:30 AM

If you received Colgate EHS training this calendar year (spring or summer of 2018) you will not need to attend any of the above sessions

08/29/2018

The founding of our institution, and how it came to become Colgate University, is told in the context of the varied names it has held and the people whose vision made it possible.

08/27/2018

Colgate will usher in its third century during the 2018–2019 academic year. The university community is preparing to explore its history, celebrate Colgate's success, and plan for its bright future throughout the bicentennial year.

08/23/2018

Our department has some new faces! Please welcome:
Adaickapillai Mahendran, VAP
Eric Muller, Assistant Professor
Anne Perring, Assistant Professor
Dan Zaleski, VAP

08/23/2018

Today, Colgate University launches the online aspects of the celebration honoring its 200-year history and anticipating its bright future — at 200.colgate.edu. The university is looking back by exploring stories of the people, places, and moments that led to Colgate's present distinction. Driven t...

09/09/2016

Over 6 years ago, our department wanted to better define our course offerings, because our old course titles did not convey the currency of the curriculum. Also, we were seeking greater flexibility and diversity for junior and senior majors. To meet these criteria, half-credit/half-semester courses were conceived

07/20/2016

The Silver Tetrahedron is back on the third floor.

05/01/2016

Congratulations to the Chemistry Department Award Winners for 2016:

Haskell Schiff Memorial Prizes (General Chemistry) – Scott Adler, Mike He, Clare Lee, Alexa Werner, Elizabeth Riley, Sophia Gallucci

Edwin Foster Kingsbury Prizes (Physical Chemistry) – Kathleen Burke, Linh Le

Lawrence Chemical Prizes (Organic Chemistry) – Maya Cao, Leo Cho, Linh Le, Sydney Loria

Roy Burnett Smith Prize in Chemistry (outstanding senior pursuing Health Science) – Andrew Thompson

McGregory Fellowship in Chemistry (outstanding senior attending graduate school in chemistry) – Haochuan Wei

ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award – Tia Cervarich

ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Undergraduate Award – Megan Tigue

03/31/2016

Former Colgate post-doc, Kris Waynant, on fighting disease with beer: https://goo.gl/rYrF9x

Hops, those little cone-shaped buds that give beer its bitter flavor, pack a surprisingly healthful punch. They are widely studied for their ability to halt ...

06/17/2015

Professor Popescu and her colleagues at NC State and Ursinus recently published this work characterizing the photophysics of an Fe(III) complex that undergoes spin crossover.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00298

An FeIII catecholate−nitronylnitroxide complex that undergoes FeIII spin-crossover was synthesized and characterized to determine whether the intraligand exchange coupling of the semiquinone−nitronylnitroxide excited state resulting from irradiation of the LMCT band would affect either the intrinsic…