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It is our great pleasure to announce that Professor Jihye Park has been honored as one of the 2022 Marinus Smith Award winners! The Marinus Smith Award recognizes faculty and staff members who have had a particularly positive impact on our students. Honorees are nominated by those they teach, mentor,...

The University of Colorado Board of Regents has named José-Luis Jimenez, Professor of Chemistry and Fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, "Distinguished Professor". This is the University’s highest faculty honor and is awarded to a select few tenured faculty members who demonstrate exemplary performance in research...

Distinguished Professor Carl Lineberger was honored by by Chancellor Phillip DeStefano for 50 years of service at CU Boulder. He started as a postdoctoral student in 1968, working with Lewis Branscomb, the founder of JILA. Despite his undergraduate and graduate degrees being in electrical engineering, he joined the chemistry faculty...

Ellen Broering received a 2021 Marinus Smith Award from the New Student and Family Programs . This year, Ms. Broering taught General Chemistry 1, General Chemistry 2, and Lab. One student describes her this way ..."Dr. Broering is such a great teacher. She has an amazing understanding of the subject...

Faster than expected - Iodine species are one of only a handful of atmospheric vapors known to make new aerosol particles, which play a central role in controlling the radiative forcing of climate. He et al. report experimental evidence from the CERN Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets, or CLOUD, chamber demonstrating...

CU Boulder Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Bert Tolbert celebrates his 100th birthday

The AGU Fellows program recognizes members who have attained scientific eminence in the Earth and space sciences for achieving a breakthrough, discovery, or innovation in their field. This is an elite class with less than one tenth of one percent of AGU membership elected in any given year. Their scientific...

Veronica Bierbaum, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry, has been named recipient of Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry.

The Chemistry Department enthusiastically welcomes Andrés Montoya-Castillo is an Assistant Professor (starting January 2021). His research interests center around developing and applying theory and simulation methods to investigate the dynamics of chemical processes in the condensed phase. Andrés obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (2011-2016) from Columbia University working with...