Departmental news
Wednesday 18 October 2017
Dr Seishi Shimizu, in collaboration with Professor Steven Abbott of TCNF Ltd and Professor Matubayasi of Osaka University, has been measuring how much vanilla, almond or lemon flavour is bound to food macromolecules, which is crucial to understanding food flavour and aroma.
Monday 25 September 2017
Chemistry at York has once again been recognised in the 2018 University League Table published by The Times, with the Department retaining its 4th position.
Monday 25 September 2017
An interdisciplinary team of staff and students from the Departments of Chemistry and Theatre, Film and Television (TFTV) combined their expertise to design and produce the first mobile app to support admissions at in the Department of Chemistry.
Monday 18 September 2017
Dr Jacqueline Hamilton, Reader in the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories (WACL) has written a piece on the harmful effects of tobacco-smoke residue for The Conversation UK.
Friday 15 September 2017
Scientists in the Department of Chemistry have created a new smart gel that can be shaped by UV light and is able to control the direction in which drugs are released.
Friday 15 September 2017
Researchers in the Department of Chemistry have shown that molecules brought to earth in meteorite strikes could potentially be converted into the building blocks of DNA.
Wednesday 30 August 2017
The Variety in Chemistry Education and Physics Higher Education Conference (ViCEPHEC) is the leading national conference for chemistry and physics education at tertiary level in the UK. This year the conference was held in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York between 23 and 25 August.
Wednesday 30 August 2017
The cover image on the current issue of ChemComm was inspired by the Parkin group’s review of their recent advances in developing a transformative new technique for bioelectrochemistry.
Thursday 24 August 2017
New theoretical studies support the view that C2 has partial quadruple bond character.
Tuesday 22 August 2017
New research from the Smith group has reported innovative new materials that successfully ‘mix up’ four different components, each of which performs a different job in the final gel.
Wednesday 16 August 2017
The University of York has been ranked in the Top 100 in the world, and 7th in the UK, for its influence on industry and innovation.
Tuesday 15 August 2017
Dr Glenn Hurst has been elected Chair of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Tertiary Education Group. Glenn will succeed Professor Simon Lancaster in this position (president elect of the Education Division Council).
Wednesday 9 August 2017
With an overall student satisfaction rating of 95% and outstanding other results in the National Student Survey, York has confirmed its reputation as one of the very best places to study chemistry in the UK.
Thursday 27 July 2017
Professor David Smith has been shortlisted in the inaugural Gay Times Honours for the Barbara Burford Award STEM Academics and Intellectuals.
Thursday 27 July 2017
Professor Alastair Lewis, from the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (WACL), reacts to a new government report that suggests any new diesel and petrol cars could be banned from 2040.
Thursday 20 July 2017
Anna Zhenova, PhD student in the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded an SCI scholarship of £5,000 over two years to support her studies in green chemistry and alternative solvent development.
Wednesday 19 July 2017
Dr Nicole Whitelaw, who has worked with the pioneers of safety critical aviation fluids for more than six years, is bringing new ideas to Kilfrost Ltd. after being awarded a PhD in the study of supramolecular material science.
Wednesday 5 July 2017
Professor Robin Perutz is one of the researchers in on ongoing collaboration with the universities of Sheffield, Cambridge and York, investigating competition between hydrogen bonding and halogen bonding when co-crystals form.
Thursday 29 June 2017
Researchers in the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory (WACL) and several US institutions have carried out work to understand the importance of nighttime chemistry in controlling air pollutants.
Wednesday 28 June 2017
With over 175 videos on YouTube, first year York Chemistry Students have, over the past 7 years, created one of the most diverse sources of online educational material in the field of polymer chemistry.
Tuesday 27 June 2017
A bio-based solvent developed in the Green Chemistry labs has been awarded a prestigious international award for innovation.
Friday 16 June 2017
York chemists have devised a simple two-step route to molecules important in drug discovery.
Friday 16 June 2017
Professor David Smith has been featured as an LGBT+ role model on the new Institute of Physics’ (IoP) LGBT+ Diversity Programme’s ‘role models in science’ flyer.
Wednesday 14 June 2017
Professor David Smith recently reached the landmark of publishing his 25th paper in the journal Chemical Communications.
Friday 9 June 2017
Researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the University of Leiden have pioneered a technique which uses florescent imaging to track the actions of key enzymes in cancer, genetic disorders and kidney disease.
Monday 5 June 2017
The University of York has pledged its commitment to a sector-wide scheme aimed at addressing some of the key challenges facing technical staff working in research.
Wednesday 24 May 2017
A new virtual consortium has been jointly launched by York and Durham chemistry departments.
Wednesday 17 May 2017
The Wellcome Trust have renewed Professor Fred Antson’s Senior Research Fellowship in Basic Biomedical Science for a further five years.
Tuesday 16 May 2017
Chemistry at York have moved to 2nd place in The Guardian University League Table 2018.
Tuesday 16 May 2017
A chemistry undergraduate student has won one of the first Laidlaw Scholarships in York.
Wednesday 10 May 2017
Dr Richard Mandle has won the 2017 British Liquid Crystal Society Young Scientist Prize.
Wednesday 10 May 2017
Dr Jon Agirre has been awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship.
Wednesday 10 May 2017
Professor Odile Eisenstein has been awarded the 2017 Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize.
Tuesday 9 May 2017
A University of York scientist has been awarded the 2017 Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Prize.
Friday 5 May 2017
Dr Moray Stark has been awarded a Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Award for 2017.
Thursday 27 April 2017
Chemistry at York has once again been recognised in the 2018 Complete University Guide, with the Department retaining its 4th position.
Wednesday 26 April 2017
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has re-accredited the Department of Chemistry’s undergraduate chemistry programmes and the MSc in Green Chemistry and Sustainable Industrial Technologies.
Monday 24 April 2017
Scientists in the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence (GCCE) have teamed up with industry partners to turn renewable plant-based resources such as potato starch into a potential energy source for electric cars.
Wednesday 12 April 2017
Professor Peter O’Brien has been awarded the 2017 AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer & Syngenta prize for Process Chemistry Research.
Tuesday 4 April 2017
Scientists in the Department of Chemistry have developed a technique that will enhance the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in identifying disease.
Wednesday 29 March 2017
The Department of Chemistry held its inaugural Independent Research Fellowships Open Day on Friday 24th March.
Tuesday 28 March 2017
Over 130 researchers from across UK and overseas gathered at the Department of Chemistry of the University of York on 16th and 17th March 2017 for the Emerging Areas of Photochemistry: From Fundamentals to Applications symposium.
Tuesday 28 March 2017
Researchers at the University of York and Simon Fraser University, Canada, revealed the 3D structure of an enzyme that could provide a crucial step forward in treating neurodegenerative diseases.
Monday 27 March 2017
New light has been shed on the functioning of human gut bacteria which could help to develop medicines in the future to improve health and wellbeing.
Tuesday 21 March 2017
Sandra Greive, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the York Structural Biology Laboratory (YSBL), is a runner-up in the online science competition ‘I’m a scientist get me out of here’.
Thursday 9 March 2017
Dr Avtar S Matharu completed a successful one-week scientific scoping mission in North India, funded by the University of York’s BBSRC Grand Challenges Research Fund Impact Acceleration Award, to explore the development of rural biorefineries to avoid the burning of agricultural residues postharvest.
Tuesday 7 March 2017
The University of York’s Department of Chemistry has been awarded £1.6million to invest in state-of-the-art equipment used to investigate the three dimensional structures of biological molecules.
Monday 6 March 2017
Elspeth McLeod, 4th year student, is one of four York students to have been awarded a Santander Elite Sports Scholarship worth £5000.
Monday 6 March 2017
A York chemistry paper will feature in the virtual "B is for Biophysics".
Tuesday 28 February 2017
A new report released by the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee warns that a third Heathrow runway could result in increased air pollution due to the higher levels of traffic the development will cause.
Tuesday 21 February 2017
Exploring Everyday Chemistry (eeDc), a pioneer University of York MOOC, delivered by the FutureLearn platform, attracted learners from over 100 countries.
Monday 30 January 2017
As part of a Green Reactants and Sustainable Products (GRASP) project in the Green Chemistry Centre for Excellence (GCCE) to further embed green and sustainable chemistry within the curriculum, Dr Glenn, Hurst, Dr Avtar Matharu and Dr Brendan Garrett focused on practical chemistry; specifically, silly putty.
Friday 27 January 2017
On Wednesday 25 January 2017, the Pelléas Ensemble played at the University of York, featuring Chemistry alumnus, Oliver Wass, playing the harp.
Friday 20 January 2017
The Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence (GCCE) has been awarded three-year Horizon 2020 funding as part of a multidisciplinary and multi-actor collaborative Research and Innovation Action (RIA) coordinated by Unitelma Sapienza University, Italy.
Monday 16 January 2017
Charlotte Gregson, year 4 MChem student, has won the Penultimate Year Prize for Analytical Chemistry from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Friday 13 January 2017
The Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence has won and will lead on a major new €4.5M Bio-based Industries (BBI) consortium grant “ReSolve” aimed at the major industrial and research challenge of seeking sustainable and safe bio-based solvents
Monday 9 January 2017
Green Chemistry and the University of York are to lead a new research project examining how food manufacturing systems can be improved to reduce waste.
Thursday 5 January 2017
Scientists, including our chemists, have solved a puzzling break in continuity of ocean warming records that sparked much controversy after climate data was published in the journal Science in 2015.
Wednesday 4 January 2017
Chemists and biologists at the University of York have harnessed the therapeutic effects of carbon monoxide-releasing molecules to develop a new antibiotic which could be used to treat the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea.
Monday 19 December 2016
Developing a potential collaboration with the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA).
Wednesday 14 December 2016
How can the UK government meet its legal air pollution targets?
Thursday 24 November 2016
Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence will provide vital research-enabled evidence in shaping the bioeconomy of the North of England announced in yesterday’s Autumn Statement.
Tuesday 22 November 2016
York team wins EPSRC grant for developing new routes to 3-D fragments, scaffolds and pharmaceuticals.
Monday 21 November 2016
Researchers in the Centre for Hyperpolarisation in Magnetic Resonance (CHyM) have discovered a new method that allows highly sensitive signals to be stored outside of a magnetic field for up to 15 minutes which could pave the way for studying biochemical reactions non-invasively in the body.
Thursday 17 November 2016
The Department of Chemistry has received a high profile industry award.
Friday 11 November 2016
The Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVO), run by chemists from the University of York’s Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories along with German and Cape Verdean scientists, celebrates its 10th anniversary this month.
Tuesday 1 November 2016
Important archaeological remains at wetland sites across the world could be at immediate risk, say scientists at the University of York.
Thursday 20 October 2016
Professor Paul Walton has been awarded a Royal Society Athena Runner Up Prize.
Tuesday 4 October 2016
York's organic chemists have discovered a cheap and efficient way to make lots of new compounds with great potential in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.
Monday 3 October 2016
Chemistry at York has been ranked 4th in The Times’ Good University Guide 2017.
Monday 3 October 2016
The Department of Chemistry is to benefit from a £1M gift from alumnus Dr Anthony H Wild.
Tuesday 27 September 2016
An international study involving researchers in the Chemistry department at York have unlocked a key to obtaining ancient protein sequences much older than was previously thought possible, thanks to the help of ancient ostrich eggshells.
Friday 23 September 2016
The celebration of 50 years of Chemistry at York and the generous donations of our alumni have led to the creation of ‘The Eleanor Dodson Fellowship Fund’.
Monday 19 September 2016
With an overall student satisfaction score of 97%, York was placed joint 1st out of the 21 Russell Group universities offering chemistry degrees.
Monday 19 September 2016
A new type of device has been developed that can monitor multiple disease biomarkers in parallel using electrophotonic technology
Tuesday 13 September 2016
The 2017 Guardian league table has ranked York 4th in the UK for teaching quality in Chemistry.
Tuesday 13 September 2016
York team publish a new method for the formation of 6 medicinally important molecules from a single precursor.
Monday 12 September 2016
A delegation of top Government officials visited the Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC), a University of York subsidiary, this week to investigate how waste can be converted into valuable products to benefit the UK economy.
Thursday 8 September 2016
A significant breakthrough in understanding the mechanisms involved in manganese-catalysed C-H bond activation
Thursday 8 September 2016
Avtar Matharu, Deputy Director, Green Chemistry of Excellence will give the prestigious Chemistry Section Presidential Address today in Swansea at the 2016 British Association Festival of Science.
Tuesday 6 September 2016
University of York Chemist, Professor Gideon Davies, has been awarded the prestigious Royal Society Ken Murray Research Professorship.
Thursday 1 September 2016
York chemists uncover rules for the selective synthesis of medicinally important structures.
Thursday 1 September 2016
York chemists operating research aircraft over West Africa have detected organic materials in the atmosphere over a number of urban areas, contributing to concerns of the rise in pollution across the region.
Saturday 20 August 2016
An international study involving researchers at York has provided evidence of the earliest known combined use of animal and plant products to make a decorative ‘glue’.
Wednesday 10 August 2016
York Chemistry has achieved outstanding results in the 2016 National Student Survey (NSS).
Thursday 28 July 2016
Global warming has been underestimated by approximately 19 per cent, scientists at the University of York say.
Tuesday 26 July 2016
University of York chemists have come up with a unique solution to ensure biorefineries are economically resilient to oil price fluctuations.
Tuesday 19 July 2016
A University of York chemist, whose research has made important contributions to the development of flat-screen displays for TVs, computers and mobile phones, has been awarded a prestigious Royal Medal of the Royal Society.
Tuesday 12 July 2016
Following a generous donation, the Department of Chemistry will establish The Roy Fenton Scholarship.
Monday 4 July 2016
Chemists from the University of York have developed an innovative new green method of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power stations, chemical and other large scale manufacturing plants.
Monday 27 June 2016
York team wins EPSRC grant to make medicinally important ‘spirocyclic’ molecules
Tuesday 21 June 2016
The University of York’s Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC) has won the 2016 Royal Society of Chemistry Inspiration and Industry Award.
Thursday 16 June 2016
York chemistry received three of the 2016 YUSU Excellence Awards.
Wednesday 15 June 2016
As part of York Festival of Ideas, a group of PhD students organised a hands-on practical chemistry event on Parliament Street in York city centre.
Tuesday 14 June 2016
Study suggests fracking is responsible for a reversal in atmospheric hydrocarbon trends.
Monday 6 June 2016
Oliver Wass, who studied for a BSc in Chemistry here in York from 2012 to 2015, and achieved a first class degree, has won the 2016 Guildhall School of Music Gold Medal.
Monday 23 May 2016
A tribute and reflection of James Clark’s contribution to green chemistry on his 65th birthday
Friday 20 May 2016
Tom Nicol (MChem, 2015) has had his MChem project work published in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics as first author. Tom’s project was a theoretical study, supervised by Dr Seishi Shimizu, focusing on cyclodextrins.
Wednesday 11 May 2016
High-affinity iron binding in Campylobacter jejuni, the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK
Monday 9 May 2016
Three University of York chemists have received prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) awards.