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Shaping the Future of Chemistry through Innovative, Collaborative, and Interdisciplinary Research
Evanston, IL
Joined December 2016
With profound sadness, we announce the passing of Sir Fraser Stoddart, Nobel Laureate and cherished member of @NorthwesternU. His groundbreaking contributions transformed the field of #chemistry and inspired countless scientists worldwide. ➡️
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Congratulations to Professor Omar Farha (@OmarFarha5) on being awarded tenure and on his promotion to Full Professor!
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Congratulations to Professor Danna Freedman (@danna_freedman) on promotion to Full Professor!
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Congratulations to Professor Julia Kalow (@JuliaKalow) on being named a 2021 Sloan Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation! #SloanFellow
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Congratulations to Professor Omar Farha (@OmarFarha5) on his election as a Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (@EurASc).
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Congratulations to Professor Omar Farha (@OmarFarha5)! He has received the Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry International Award for Creative Work! Prof. Farha will deliver his award lecture at the 69th Conference of Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry this September.
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Omar K. Farha, a pioneer in the rational design of metal-organic frameworks (#MOFs), has been named the new chair of @NUChemistry!.#Leadership #ChemistryExcellence. Discover More ➡️
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We are pleased to announce that the GRE will not be required for admission into the @NUChemistry PhD program in the upcoming application cycle.
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Congratulations to Professor Omar Farha (@OmarFarha5) for joining the Academy of Arab Scientists as one of the founding members. @kfasinfo
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According to s Rankings of Highly-Cited Chemists, no university in the world has more professors ranked in the top 40 than Northwestern University. #top40 #chemscholars #highlycitedchemists
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We are thrilled to welcome Christian Malapit (@CAMalapit) to our Department as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry starting in January 2022!
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A hearty round of applause for #NUChem's very own Professor Omar K. Farha, who has been chosen for the esteemed 2023 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award! @OmarFarha5 @uclachem.👏👏👏.➡️
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Happy 80th Birthday to our Resident 2016 Nobel Prize Winner @sirfrasersays. You are an incredible role model and mentor to your students here @northwesternu! #chemnobel #Chemistry
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Congratulations Professor Omar Farha on your investiture as a Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in Chemistry. Your story is an inspiration to so many of us!.@OmarFarha5 @WeinbergCollege .#chemscholar #inspiringchemist
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Thank you, @NorthwesternU, for the heartfelt tribute honoring the extraordinary life of Sir Fraser Stoddart. #RIP #NobelLaureate .
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Prof. Omar Farha had a full house for his tenure presentation today! Well done, @OmarFarha5!
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Congratulations to Professor Joe Hupp, elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. @americanacad @NU_Huppsters
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Congratulations to Professor Sam Stupp, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (@theNASciences).
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Congratulations to Professor Mike Wasielewski, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences. @theNASciences
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Congratulations to Teri Odom and Rick Silverman on their well-deserved election to the National Academy of Sciences. Your contributions to the field are truly remarkable! @theNASciences @teriwodom . #NASmembers #NAS160 .➡️
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Professor George Schatz has been awarded the Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Sciences! He is the 7th winner of this international award, which recognizes his contributions to the theory and understanding of gas-phase reaction dynamics, plasmonics, and nanostructured materials.
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Congratulations to @OmarFarha5 and the @Farhomies on reaching this incredible milestone! 🎉🥂
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Congratulations Omar Farha on being selected as an Emerging Technology Leader in Carbon Capture by CHN Analytics! 👏🎉. #carboncapture #MOF #metalorganicframeworks #TechnologyNews
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#NUChemistry is proud to announce that 14 of our researchers have been named on the @Clarivate 2022 Highly Cited Researchers list. #HighlyCited2022 .@NorthwesternU
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Congratulations to Professor Emily Weiss (@emilyweissNU) on being awarded the 2021 ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry! @AmerChemSociety via @cenmag
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Prof. Julia Kalow has been named a PMSE Young Investigator by the Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering Division of @AmerChemSociety for her contributions within polymer materials science and engineering. Congrats @JuliaKalow!
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Congratulations, Mercouri Kanatzidis, on your election to the National Academy of Sciences! We celebrate your numerous remarkable accomplishments and unwavering commitment to advancing science. #NASmember .@theNASciences @MercouriK . Discover more ➡️
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Xiaoyu Zhang, Chemistry's newest faculty member, is receiving a Damon Runyon-Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists in recognition of his research that may provide a novel therapeutic modality for treating many cancers. @NUChemistry @xzhang85
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Congratulations to Professor Danna Freedman for being awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for her work on quantum computing! PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young science and engineering professionals.
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Congratulations to Professor Teri W. Odom, elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Twelve Chemistry Professors Recognized as 2021 Highly Cited Researchers!. Congratulations to Professors Dichtel, Facchetti, Farha, Hersam, Hupp, Kanatzidis, Mirkin, Marks, Rogers, Schatz, Stoddart and Wasielewski! .
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We are thrilled to welcome Xiaoyu Zhang (@xzhang85) to our Department as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry starting in February 2022!
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🎉 Congratulations to the 13 @NUChemistry faculty members who have been included in @Clarivate's #HighlyCited2023. The list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. #chemtwitter
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Congratulations to Professor Will Dichtel (@Dichtel), elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science @aaas. @Dichtelians
Congratulations to the 489 newly elected AAAS Fellows!. A virtual induction ceremony for the 2020 Fellows will take place on Feb. 13, 2021, the Saturday following the #AAASmtg. See the full list of Fellows here:
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Congratulations to Professor Teri Odom, recipient of the 2020 ACS Award in Surface Chemistry!. This ACS national award is sponsored by @ProcterGamble and recognizes distinguished services in the advancement of surface chemistry.
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Congratulations, Prof. Omar Farha on winning the 2023 Herman Pines Award for your groundbreaking work on MOFs and continuing the legacy of excellence established by Herman Pines at #NUChem! .#MOF #Chemistryexcellence
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Happy Birthday 82 @sirfrasersays! Thank you for the many contributions you have made to the students and research community at @NUChemistry. 💜🎂
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Congratulations to @CHADNANO and @sirfrasersays on being two of the @cme_stem 2022 Academic Honorees! @WeinbergCollege @NorthwesternU @ResearchNU
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Congrats! Omar K. Farha has been named one of the “Researchers to Know” by @ISTCoalition. This list highlights distinguished university researchers making significant impacts and driving innovation in Illinois. #innovation #NUChem
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Congratulations to our Chemistry faculty that have been recognized as 2018 Highly Cited Researchers!
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We are thrilled to welcome Dayne Swearer (@dayne_swearer) to Chemistry and Chemical and Biological Engineering as an Assistant Professor starting in January 2022! @IINanoNU @WeinbergCollege @NorthwesternEng
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🎉Happy Birthday to the brilliant mind and Nobel laureate, @sirfrasersays! Thank you for taking this special day to share your remarkable scientific journey with us. #HappyBirthday #Nobel
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Professor Teri Odom has been elected a 2018 Fellow of the American Physical Society (@APSphysics). This fellowship recognizes Professor Odom's exceptional contributions to plasmonics and to the physics enterprise. Congrats @teriwodom!
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The DOE @energy has announced the prestigious DOE Early Career Research Program Awards. Congrats to @JuliaKalow who was among the 93 early career scientists selected from across the country! @NorthwesternU @WeinbergCollege
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Congratulations to Professor Danna Freedman (@danna_freedman) who has received the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry!
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Congratulations @sirfrasersays and @LongZHANG90 on taking molecular nanotechnology to another level!.This motor can convert electrical energy into unidirectional motion at the molecular level. #Amazing #nanotechnology .
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Congratulations to Professor Julia Kalow (@JuliaKalow) on being named a 2021 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar! @dreyfusfndn
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Professor Chad Mirkin will receive the 2019 Netherlands Award for Supramolecular Chemistry at the International Conference on Molecular Systems Engineering. He is the third recipient of this award, joining Nobel Laureates Jean-Marie Lehn and Sir Fraser Stoddart (@sirfrasersays)
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Congratulations to #NUChem's Shana Kelley and Mercouris Kanatzidis on this incredible honor of being elected to the @americanacad. Your achievements continue to inspire us all! 🙌👨🔬 .#facultyexcellence #chemistry . ➡
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🎉Congrats to the 14 #NUChemistry faculty named to @Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers 2024! .Among the top 0.1% of scientists worldwide, their groundbreaking work is shaping the future. #HighlyCited2024 #FacultyExcellence #Chemistry
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Congratulations Joe Hupp on the 2023 Allen J. Bard Award in Electrochemical Science! This honor is given by @ECSorg for distinguished contributions to electrochemical science. #electrochemical #NUChem
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The Chemistry Department extends a warm welcome and best wishes to Shana and Ted. Needless to say, we look forward to working with you!.
Shana Kelley, a pioneer in translational bioanalytical research, and Ted Sargent, a renowned researcher in nanotechnology, join Northwestern. @WeinbergCollege @NUChemistry @NorthwesternEng @IINanoNU @NorthwesternU Learn more:
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Please join us in congratulating Professor Brian Hoffman on receiving the 2022 American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal. Congratulations Professor Hoffman!.
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Richard Silverman awarded 2021 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry. Congratulations Professor Silverman!.
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Congratulations to Professor Michael Wasielewski on being awarded the 2021 RSC Bruker Prize for EPR Spectroscopy! @RoySocChem
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Congratulations to faculty members Teri W. Odom and Chad Mirkin on being named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows for their work in #Chemistry! .#chemtwitter #facultyexcellence
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The Department of Chemistry is excited to be included in @Nature's Top 10 institutions for chemistry and to be recognized as the second fastest rising institute in the cohort!
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Congratulations to Professor Julia Kalow (@JuliaKalow) on her selection as a Marion Milligan Mason for Women in the Chemical Sciences Awardee! @aaas @kalowlab
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We are thrilled to welcome Bryan Hunter (@whoisBMH) to our Department as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry starting Fall 2022!
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Congratulations @MercouriK on receiving the 2025 ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials! .#Chemistry #FacultyExcellence #materialsscience. Read full list of ACS Award Winners in @cenmag ➡️
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Professor Will Dichtel receives the 2018 Akron Section Award! This award is sponsored by the Akron Local Section of the @AmerChemSociety & recognizes young scientists who show great promise in their professional careers. Congrats, @Dichtel!
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Congratulations @CHADNANO on being awarded the 2022 MRS Medal. This has been awarded "For the invention and implementation of nanoparticle mega-libraries for materials discovery.".@Materials_MRS .#NUchem #awardwinner
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Congrats @CHADNANO!.Mirkin is honored for discovering spherical nucleic acids (SNAs)—nanostructures with a nanoparticle core and radially distributed DNA/RNA strands. This breakthrough in #nanomedicine advances biomedical research. #KavliPrize2024.
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Professor Teri Odom (@teriwodom) was awarded @RoySocChem's 2020 Centenary Prize for seminal work on multi-scale materials, enabling new ways to achieve ultrafast, coherent, and directional light emission at the nanoscale. Congratulations! @TheOdomGroup #RSCAwards
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The department is pleased to announce that Department Chair, Prof. Teri Odom, has been named the new editor-in-chief of Nano Letters! Congrats, Prof. Odom!
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Congratulations to Professor Fraser Stoddart (@sirfrasersays) on his election as a 2021 Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Sciences. @Science_Academy
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Professor Joe Hupp was elected in 2021 and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Fall 2022. The Academy elects exceptionally accomplished individuals and engages them in advancing the public good. @americanacad @WeinbergCollege
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Professor Chad Mirkin received the 2022 IPMI Jun-ichiro Tanaka Distinguished Achievement Award. The award recognizes important career contributions to the advancement of the precious metals industry. @CHADNANO @MirkinGroupNU #Tanaka
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Congratulations to Professor Lin Chen for being awarded the 2020 Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry from the Physical Chemistry Division of ACS.
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Congratulations to Mercouri Kanatzidis! The International Mineralogical Society has named a recently discovered chalcogenide mineral, Kanatzidisite to honor @MercouriK’s pioneering work in the field of chalcogenide chemistry! #ScientificLegacy .
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Congrats to Professor Joe Hupp who has received the 2018 George S. Hammond Award from the Inter-American Photochemical Society! This award recognizes honorees for their lifelong achievements in, and contributions to, the photochemical sciences.
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This week the #NUChemistry faculty celebrated @MercouriK's remarkable career at the Kanatzidis International Symposium on Materials/Solid State Chemistry & #Nanoscience in Crete! 🇬🇷🧪. #FacultyExcellence #Chemistry
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Another highlight from this weekend's graduation celebrations: The @Farhomies had three outstanding PhD graduates hooded on Friday and an undergraduate who graduated with honors. 🎓🧪💜.#NU2024 #ChemPhD #Chemistry
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Sylvia Hanna, a second year graduate student in the @Farhomies was awarded a second place prize in the 2019 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards. Congratulations to Sylvia!
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Congratulations to Professor Regan Thomson for his appointment as a Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence.
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Professor Teri Odom was named Crain's 2020 Notable Women in STEM. Congratulations!
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On this #InternationalWomensDay, we recognize the women who are a part of our core faculty at #NUChem. They are change-makers, innovators, and leaders who inspire us all to strive for excellence and make a positive impact in the world.
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Kudos to Tobin Marks, Chad Mirkin, and Mercouri Kanatzidis for ranking among the Top 20 researchers globally by 🎉.@NUChemistry stands out as the sole program with three faculty in this elite group, out of over 72,000 chemists analyzed.
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Congratulations to Professor Milan Mrksich for receiving the 2020 Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award! Milan is being recognized for the development and application of surface chemistries in analytical chemistry and chemical biology.
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Professor Tobin Marks has been elected as a Foreign Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and will be inducted into the EurASc this October in Madrid. Congratulations Prof. Marks!
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Mark your calendars!. This Wednesday @NUChemistry is holding a special colloquium honoring the 2020 Fred Basolo Medal Winner Omar Yaghi from @UCB_Chemistry! .#MOF #COF #ReticularChemistry. 🗓️ 15 November 2023.⏲️ 3:00 p.m. 📍 Technological Institute - LR3. @OmarFarha5 @Farhomies
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🎉Congratulations @dayne_swearer on being awarded the 2023 @Packard Fellowship! .#chemtwitter #packardfellow . ➡️
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Last week the faculty came together to raise a glass to @MercouriK and Mark Hersam! Their elections to @theNASciences and @americanacad are shining examples of their exceptional contributions to their fields. 🍾🥂.#AcademicAchievement #ResearchExcellence
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Congratulations to Professors Will Dichtel (@Dichtel) and Emily Weiss (@emilyweissNU) for being named finalists for the 2020 Blavatnik National Awards.
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Congratulations to Kevin Kohlstedt, recipient of the 2020 Omar Farha Award for Research Leadership!
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#NUChem Department Chair, @teriwodom joins the ranks of world-class scientists, engineers and innovators as a 2022 @AAAS Fellow! Advancing scientific excellence and pushing boundaries 💥 #WomenInSTEM #ScienceExcellence.➡️
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After six years at the helm, @teriwodom will be concluding her role as Department Chair on August 31st. To honor her tenure, we reflect on her leadership and the achievements accomplished during her time. #ThankYou #WomeninSTEM. Read more ➡️
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Congratulations to Professor Teri Odom (@teriwodom) who has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (@OpticalSociety)! She is being recognized for her pioneering contributions to multi-scale plasmonic nanostructures and nanophotonics.
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Congratulations to all the Northwestern Chemistry @NSF GRFP award winners! 🧪🌟.#NSFGRFP #chemtwitter . @WeinbergCollege @NorthwesternU
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"MOF research is one of the most exciting and most cited fields of chemistry in the past 10 years, and NuMat is one of the first companies in the world to commercialize them."
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Thrilled to see #NUChem maintain its strong reputation in the latest graduate school rankings by @usnews! Ranked #6 in the U. S. for Chemistry and #2 in Inorganic Chemistry, the Department continues to strive for excellence in chemical education. #ChemistryExcellence 🙌
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Congratulations to Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis! He has been selected as the recipient of the 2018 Chemical Pioneer Award for his work redefining the field of chalcogenide compounds!
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Professor Omar Farha (@OmarFarha5) discusses the commercialization of MOFs during today's faculty lunch seminar hosted by the Graduate Liaison Committee.
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Congratulations to Professor Rosenzweig for being awarded the 2021 Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry! @RosenzweigLab @AmerChemSociety via @cenmag
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Some of our wonderful faculty, students, and staff enjoying the Department Holiday party!
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