News / Events

15 April 2013

• Congratulations to the Alpha Sigma Nu students this year! Membership into the Alpha Sigma Nu is one of the highest honors one can achieve at our institution. We send a big congratulations to Mariah Dormaier, Steven Loskot, and Sydney Dautel, all Biochemistry majors.

7-11 April 2013

• The 245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition: Chemistry of Energy & Food was recently held in New Orleans, LA.  To read more about who attended and what talks were given from our department, please click here. It was a successful endeavor and we are proud of all who participated.

15 February 2013

• University of Washington Environmental Health Research Experience Program is a summer research program for undergraduate students.  They are offering a summer stipend of $5,200.  The deadline to apply is Friday, 15 February 2013.  It is sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.  For more information, please click here.

7 January 2013

• Welcome back to Professor Watson! We are so glad to have you back and teaching this quarter.

14 December 2012

• Thermo Fischer Scientific, Inc. is currently accepting applications for the Thermo Scientific Pierce Scholarship Programs for Winter/Spring 2013.  The deadline is Friday, 14 December 2012.  It includes two $10,000 scholarships and four $5,000 scholarships, to be awarded to undergraduate and graduate students with a declared major of Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, or a related life-science field. For more information and to apply, please click here.

9 November 2012 

• Friday, November 9th, The Chemistry Club will be having a movie night at the Douglas Media room at 8 p.m. The movie of the night is 21 Jump Street and popcorn will be provided. Please feel free to bring other treats to share. Everyone is welcome!  

4 October 2012

• The Chemistry Club tie-dyed lab coats in the Chemistry Library on October 4th.  In the excitement beforehand, Chemistry Club Communications Officer, Ed Charlesworth, said: "I don't need to tell you why this is awesome, just come by and increase your safety equipment's snazziness coefficient!  We'll be doing the tie-dying from 12:30-1:30 p.m.  All are welcome, and bring your lab coat!"  Many students participated which made it a wonderful event to start the school year in style.

1 October 2012

• Dr. Jennifer Loertscher and  Dr. Vicky Minderhout received the NSF award to further Biochemistry education for $540,000, titled, " Transforming Undergraduate Biochemistry Education: A Community Approach Linking Learning, Assessment and Curricular Innovation." This is their second award from the NSF in Biochemistry education and brings their total support to over 1 million dollars to the Department of Chemistry!

• Congratulations to Dr. Ian Suydam, who is beginning the academic year as our newest Assistant Professor.  Yay!
• We also want to extend a warm welcome to our newest faculty: Dr. Andrea Verdan and Dr. Shamila Gunatilleke.  

• Dr. Eric Watson (watsone1@seattleu.edu) is on sabbatical for Fall quarter 2012 and will return to teaching Winter quarter 2013.
• Dr. Joseph Langenhan (langenha@seattleu.edu) and Dr. Kristy Skogerboe (skogerbo@seattleu.edu) are on sabbatical for the academic year of 2012/13.

August 2012 

• Dr. P.J. Alaimo has returned from his sabbatical in Switzerland this past year. Welcome back, Dr. Alaimo! 

January 2012

• Congratulations! to Chemistry Professor Vicky Minderhout for being named the 2011 Washington State "Professor of the Year." You can read more about Minderhout's award in The Seattle Times.