Departmental news
Tuesday 22 May 2012
The Department of Chemistry is ranked fifth in the Guardian University Guide 2013, consolidating York’s position as one of the top Chemistry Departments in the UK
Wednesday 16 May 2012
A world-leading scientist will talk about ribosomes – the large molecular machines that are crucial to life – at a major public lecture at the University of York next week.
Friday 11 May 2012
The Wellcome Trust has awarded Dr Fred Antson a 5-year Senior Research Fellowship
Friday 11 May 2012
Professor David Smith, Professor Ally Lewis and Professor Richard Taylor have all been awarded Royal Society of Chemistry prizes.
Tuesday 1 May 2012
Dr Nigel Lowe has been awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award for 2012 - number 5 for Chemistry
Monday 30 April 2012
Chemistry staff have won three awards in the Vice Chancellor's awards for outstanding achievement
Wednesday 25 April 2012
The Department of Chemistry is placed seventh in the Complete University Guide 2013
Monday 23 April 2012
For the second year in a row, the Chemistry Department has been short-listed for a Times Higher Education Award
Friday 2 March 2012
Ground-breaking research by an international team of scientists will help to make one of the most versatile of bacteria even more useful to society and the environment.
Monday 27 February 2012
Chemistry undergraduates are back in the teaching labs doing practical work
Friday 24 February 2012
The department has compiled its 2012 newsletters, both for prospective students and for our undergraduate students.
Wednesday 25 January 2012
A York Undergraduate Chemist has won the Royal Society of Chemistry Analytical Prize for 2011
Wednesday 25 January 2012
The atmospheric research group in the Department of Chemistry have had three new grants funded through the NERC standard grants scheme, totalling around £900k.
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Organic chemists at the University of York have made a significant advance towards establishing the origin of the carbohydrates (sugars) that form the building blocks of life.
Monday 23 January 2012
Four Teesside school children helped Chemistry Department staff promote a new scheme to motivate children to study science when they met MPs and business leaders at the House of Commons.
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Dr Gideon Grogan (YSBL, Chemistry) and Professor Neil Bruce (CNAP, Biology) have been awarded £650,000 by the European Union for the Marie-Curie Network project P4FIFTY.
Wednesday 4 January 2012
Scientists have determined the structure of the enzyme endomannosidase, significantly advancing our understanding of how a group of devastating human viruses including HIV and Hepatitis C hijack human enzymes to reproduce and cause disease.
Tuesday 3 January 2012
Paul Clarke highlights his group's progress on origins of life
Friday 16 December 2011
The University of York has awarded a Morrell Fellowship to Tony Wild in recognition of the significant contribution he has made to the University.
Wednesday 14 December 2011
The Department of Chemistry has celebrated the 250th anniversary of the birth of Selby scientist Smithson Tennant with a series of public events.
Friday 9 December 2011
York chemists are part of an international research team exploring novel ‘Star Wars’ techniques to improve our understanding of the Earth’s atmosphere and of global change.
Wednesday 7 December 2011
Professor Lucy Carpenter is one of a group of international scientists celebrating the discovery of iodine
Friday 25 November 2011
CIEC Promoting Science and the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, both working within the University of York’s Chemistry Department, have been selected as one of the four winners of the 2012 American Chemical Society’s Award for incorporating Sustainability into Chemical Education.
Thursday 24 November 2011
The Prime Minister has appointed Professor Sir John Holman to the Board of The Natural History Museum
Monday 21 November 2011
Over 9,000 people in the UK suffer from cystic fibrosis, an inherited condition that causes chronic lung infections and a life expectancy of just 37 years. Therapies under development at York could transform the lives of people who suffer from this cruel genetic disorder and the vehicle used to deliver them is only a couple of nanometres across.
Monday 21 November 2011
Students applying for an undergraduate chemistry programme for entry in 2012 or 2013 now have access from point of application, to a new, distinctive VLE site called ‘Chemistry@York’.
Wednesday 2 November 2011
Professor John Goodby FRS, Doctors Stephen Cowling and Isabel Saez and Professor Peter Raynes FRS have been awarded a research grant by the EPSRC entitled "Self-Organisation and Self-Assembly in Aliphatic Based Liquid Crystals" to start at the beginning of 2012. The total value of the grant is over £800,000.
Wednesday 19 October 2011
Danielle Williams, an MChem Year 4 student scooped Gold Medal at the recent UK National Taekwondo Championships
Monday 3 October 2011
The 250th Anniversary of the birth of the chemist Smithson Tennant will be celebrated with two events at the University of York
Wednesday 14 September 2011
A chemist at the University of York will today announce a new project aimed at producing valuable biomass-derived chemicals, materials and fuels from waste orange.
Wednesday 31 August 2011
Scientists from the University of York have played a pivotal role in a discovery which could finally unlock the full potential of waste plant matter to replace oil as a fuel source.
Wednesday 17 August 2011
Second place in the National Student Survey confirms York's position amongst the Chemistry Elite
Thursday 4 August 2011
Scientists at the University of York, using an 'amino acid time capsule', have led the largest ever programme to date the British Quaternary period, stretching back nearly three million years.
Thursday 4 August 2011
Chemists from the University of York are playing a key role in an experiment to measure polluting emissions from forest fires in Canada.
Wednesday 13 July 2011
The Supervisor of the Year Award is awarded by University of York Students Union
Friday 8 July 2011
Scientists from the Department of Chemistry have been honoured by the Royal Society of Chemistry for their outstanding work as part of a UK-wide research team in biological chemistry.
Wednesday 6 July 2011
York Chemists suggest pistachio nuts to be healthier alternative to coffee
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Scientists from the University of York are part of a team working on how to use the energy of the Sun to make fuels, which could help to solve the world’s escalating energy crisis.
Tuesday 21 June 2011
A final year MChem Chemistry student has recently been elected as one of Blackpool's youngest ever councillors.
Tuesday 7 June 2011
Professor Sir John Holman has been appointed Senior Fellow in Education at the Wellcome Trust
Friday 3 June 2011
A University of York scientist has won a prestigious environment award for his outstanding contributions to green chemistry.
Wednesday 1 June 2011
Fred Manby, a former graduate student at York, has been awarded the RSC 2011 Corday-Morgan Prize
Tuesday 24 May 2011
Professor Eleanor Dodson shares the ninth Ewald Prize
Friday 20 May 2011
A scientist in the Department of Chemistry, who specialises in research into liquid crystals, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the world's top scientific honours.
Tuesday 10 May 2011
Staff in the Department of Chemistry have won four Vice-Chancellors' Awards
Tuesday 3 May 2011
New nano-systems developed in York may eventually help patients recover from surgery without the danger of allergic reactions to drugs.
Tuesday 3 May 2011
Chemistry Undergraduate Admissions Team Has Been Shortlisted for a National Award
Thursday 24 March 2011
Dr Verena Görtz has been awarded the 2011 Young Scientist Prize of the British Liquid Crystal Society.
Thursday 17 March 2011
Tracey Gloster has won the Early Career Research Award of the Biochemical Society in the area of Molecular Structure and Function.
Wednesday 16 March 2011
Recent work published by Professor David Smith’s research group has reported new nano-systems which may eventually help patients recovering from surgery.
Monday 14 March 2011
Professor James Clark, director of the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence for Industry at the University of York, speaking in Cordoba, underlined the need for governments to be aware of the importance of turning waste into resources.
Friday 11 March 2011
Worked carried out by Dr Anne Duhme-Klair and her group at York has discovered potent Xanthine Oxidase Inhibitors
Friday 18 February 2011
The department has compiled a newsletter, called Chem Highlights, for our undergraduate students.
Friday 18 February 2011
Professor Dave Smith has been awarded the 2011 'Bob Hay Lectureship'.
Thursday 17 February 2011
Funded jointly by NERC and the Analytical Chemistry Trust Fund, the investment is in major capital equipment in the Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry.
Friday 11 February 2011
The Department of Chemistry will host the 44th Annual International Meeting of the ESR spectroscopy group of the RSC, between 3 and 7 April.
Tuesday 4 January 2011
Scientists at the University of York working with an industrial partner have helped to reveal more about the biochemistry of one of nature’s most distinctive marine organisms.
Wednesday 22 December 2010
Eliahou Dangoor Scholarships Awarded to Six Chemistry Undergraduates
Tuesday 14 December 2010
An article by the Green Chemistry Group is the 22nd most cited article in Dalton Transactions ever
Thursday 2 December 2010
Article suggests solutions of what to do with increasing volumes of liquid crystal display (LCD) waste
Friday 26 November 2010
The University of York has been named University of the Year in the 2010 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards.
Friday 5 November 2010
An article written by members of the Green Chemistry Group at the University of York is the Fifth accessed article in the Online version of Green Chemistry for the month of September.
Monday 1 November 2010
Professor Gideon Davies has been awarded membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Thursday 14 October 2010
Hidden Glory, a one-woman show about Britain's only female Nobel science prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin will be performed in York on 20 November 2010.
Tuesday 21 September 2010
Most people look forward to a cup of tea or coffee – but why does a cuppa taste so good and why is it so refreshing?
Monday 20 September 2010
Department of Chemistry receives Athena Swan Gold award
Thursday 19 August 2010
The Department of Chemistry at York is in equal tenth place in the National Student Survey (NSS), for Chemistry
Monday 2 August 2010
Department of Chemistry retains its Gold Athena Swan Award
Friday 30 July 2010
A centre at the University of York that aims to create enthusiasm for science and technology in children has received a special award for excellence for its work in schools.
Wednesday 21 July 2010
Professor John Goodby has been honoured twice in the last few months in recognition of his internationally leading contributions to liquid crystal science.
Thursday 1 July 2010
A new magnetic resonance imaging technology is established that could revolutionise the way medical conditions are diagnosed and treated.
Monday 28 June 2010
An article submitted from the Centre for Green Chemistry at York is among the top ten accessed articles for May.
Monday 28 June 2010
Professor Eleanor Dodson receives an honorary doctorate
Thursday 24 June 2010
The Department was awarded the ‘Best Academic Campaign” by York University Students Union (YUSU) at their inaugural Annual Awards ceremony held on Saturday 19 June.
Friday 18 June 2010
The fastest growing waste in the EU could soon be helping to combat hospital infections, according to scientists at the University of York.
Wednesday 9 June 2010
A chemist at the University of York has won his second major award in a month from the UK’s foremost scientific institution.
Tuesday 8 June 2010
The Department of Chemistry at the University of York has been placed in the top five in the 2011 subject league tables published by The Guardian, The Independent and The Times newspapers.
Friday 28 May 2010
The Department of Chemistry at York is ranked Fourth in The Times Good University Guide 2011
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Mark Fogg from the York Structural Biology Laboratory is taking part in a science communication event 'I'm a Scientist Get Me Out Of Here'
Friday 21 May 2010
Two Department of Chemistry professors awarded FRS
Thursday 20 May 2010
The Department of Chemistry in York ranked amongst the top echelon in UK Chemistry departments
Thursday 13 May 2010
Research by scientists at the University of York and Freiburg could open up new avenues of chemical exploration involving the element gallium
Tuesday 4 May 2010
Professor Duncan Bruce has been awarded a Tilden Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry in recognition of his mastery of synthetic and organisational principles for the creation of materials with collective properties, including transition metal containing liquid crystals, metallosurfactants and halogen bonded liquid crystals.
Thursday 29 April 2010
Department of Chemistry lecturers are involved in giving three lectures in the University of York's "Science in the City - Environmental Issues in and around York"
Tuesday 20 April 2010
A major new suite of laboratories, to be opened this week, will help scientists in the Green Chemistry group at the University of York to advance research into clean synthesis, catalysis, novel materials and the application of renewable resources.
Wednesday 14 April 2010
Professor Paul Walton will be presenting a lecture, Chemistry Comes to Life at the Annual Alumni Weekend.
Wednesday 31 March 2010
Chemistry graduate Derfogail Delcassian is helping a York conference and events management business to develop a new client management system.
Friday 26 March 2010
Scientists at the University of York have played a key role in new international research which demonstrates how one of the world’s great natural phenomena is helping to increase pollution in the upper atmosphere.
Thursday 25 March 2010
The Department has secured just under £10,000 from the National HE STEM Programme to fund further development of electronic and video resources to support practical chemistry
Thursday 18 March 2010
A new adhesive for use in carpet tiles which has been developed at the University of York could help dramatically reduce their impact on the environment.
Tuesday 16 March 2010
Researchers at the University of York are developing novel ways of using microwaves to convert waste products such as grass cuttings or straw into biofuels.
Tuesday 2 March 2010
A selection of recent initiatives in the Department of Chemistry's teaching will be showcased at the Annual York Learning and Teaching Conference.
Friday 5 February 2010
£70,000 programme to revise and reorganise Chemistry practicals
Wednesday 3 February 2010
A new centre to maximise the beneficial use of carbon dioxide is to open at the University of York.
Tuesday 26 January 2010
New research that significantly improves our understanding of how insulin interacts with cells in the human body is published today.
Thursday 21 January 2010
Ex York Chemist Stephen Clarson has been awarded the ACS 2010 Chemist of Year
Monday 11 January 2010
Dr Seishi Shimizu has been awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award for 2009/10
Monday 4 January 2010
Professor John Holman has been knighted in New Year Honours
Friday 11 December 2009
An open day for prospective Post Graduate students was held in the department
Friday 11 December 2009
York Chemists eligible for Eliahou Dangoor Scholarships