Archive: News

  • Dr. Janeth Presores receives the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

    Congratulations to our faculty member Dr. Janeth Presores in being presented a prestigious award for excellence in teaching in the undergraduate curriculum. This award is given to a small number of f

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  • Undergraduate Research Conference

    At the 2022 Undergraduate Research Conference, three students in the Chemistry Department presented posters. Seniors Chloe Kekedjian (Chemistry major), Rachel Palmer (Biochemistry major), and Julia A

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  • Adrian Kalaw and Dominic Pham named Goldwater Scholars

    Adrian Kalaw, a biochemistry major, and Dominic Pham, a biochemistry and comparative literature double major, have been awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship Excellence in Education for 2022. This

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  • Nadia Sarfraz Elected Grad Gov President

    Nadia Sarfraz, a PhD student in the Braselmann lab, was recently elected as president of Georgetown's Graduate Student Government (GradGov).   GradGov has a membership of ~12,000 M.S. and Ph.D. s

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  • Provost Groves’ Faculty in Research Podcast

    Hear Prof. Toshiko Ichiye in conversation with Provost Groves discuss among other things how her childhood love of puzzles led her to a career in physical chemistry and the study of molecules in

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  • Georgetown Alumni Career Panel

    Prof. Rodrigo Maillard and GSOC organized an incredibly successful chemistry alumni career panel for the graduate and undergraduate students in the department. The program consisted of an hour-long Q

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  • Spring ’22 1st Year Grad Student Lit Seminar

    On Friday March 11 six first year graduate students presented at the Spring 2022 1st Year Graduate Student Literature Seminar.  This annual event takes place each Spring semester, often near the end

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  • Prof. Knope Honored by Provost

    Professor Karah Knope has been selected as one of the 2022 Provost Distinguished Associate Professors by a committee of senior faculty. The honor has been awarded every year since 2016 by the Pro

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  • Adopt A Family

    Each year the Office of Human Resources at Georgetown runs the Sponsor A Family program for Georgetown Families that might need assistance. This year the members of the Chemistry Department came tog

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  • Coffee and Conversation

    With the decrease in research capacity that happened during COVID, it was hard for graduate students (and all members of the department) to have a place to informally get together for conversations. 

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