Departmental news
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.
Tuesday 3 May 2016
International study involving York researchers shows how hardness of calcite crystals can be modified, providing new insights into the mechanical properties of inorganic / organic nanocomposites.
Friday 29 April 2016
Professor Pratibha Gai has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of her ground-breaking work.
Thursday 28 April 2016
Scientists at the Universities of York and Leiden have made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of an inherited genetic disorder which damages muscle and nerve cells in the body.
Monday 25 April 2016
The excellence of Chemistry at York recognised in the 2017 Complete University Guide, achieving an outstanding 4th place.
Monday 25 April 2016
Dr Seishi Shimizu’s research shows how fundamental scientific theory can unlock access to natural products and ingredients, and improve industrial processes.
Tuesday 8 March 2016
Professor Pratibha Gai profiled by Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) for International Women's Day 2016
Monday 29 February 2016
Scientists at the University of York are part of an international research team that has made a significant step forward in understanding the processes naturally occurring enzymes use to degrade microbe-resistant biomass, a key aim in the development of biofuels.
Tuesday 16 February 2016
A critical discovery about how bacteria feed on an unusual sugar molecule found in leafy green vegetables finally reveals how sulphur is harnessed by living organisms. The work may inform strategies to boost our ‘good’ gut bacteria and promote digestive health.
Wednesday 10 February 2016
Dr Katrina Bakker, 30, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of York, hailing from Peterborough, is attending Parliament to present her chemistry research to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges, as part of SET for Britain on Monday 7 March.
Tuesday 9 February 2016
The recently published 2015 NSS results show that 98% of our students are satisfied with the quality of their Chemistry degree here in York.
Wednesday 20 January 2016
Professor John Goodby, FRS, has been awarded the 2016 Freedericksz Medal of the Russian Liquid Crystal Society for his “Outstanding Research in the Field of Chemistry of Liquid Crystals”.
Friday 15 January 2016
Professor Alastair Lewis of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science has performed research for the BBC science programme Trust Me I'm A Doctor into whether chemicals released from scented candles pose a danger to health.
Wednesday 13 January 2016
Chemists from the University of York have developed a new approach for the synthesis of piperazines – drug compounds used to treat hay fever and HIV.
Monday 4 January 2016
Adrian Whitwood has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the 2016 New Year Honours List.
Tuesday 22 December 2015
Investigating the factors controlling coral biomineralisation
Tuesday 24 November 2015
A University of York chemist, Professor Robin Perutz has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Friday 20 November 2015
Chemists from the University of York have published research unveiling the 3-D structure of human heparanase, a sugar-degrading enzyme which has received significant attention as a key target in anti-cancer treatments.
Tuesday 17 November 2015
Inspired by the classic 'ball-in-a-cup' children's toy, chemists at the University of York have discovered an innovative method to make medicinally important molecules.
Wednesday 11 November 2015
Molybdenum is an essential nutrient for most living species because it causes vital biochemical transformations to occur fast enough to sustain life. In humans, a genetic inability to produce molybdenum-containing proteins is fatal because a molybdenum enzyme known as sulfite oxidase is required by every cell in the body.
Wednesday 11 November 2015
Carbohydrates are often considered the ‘Cinderella’ molecules of biology yet they are a feature of an increasing number of medicines, from small molecule drugs to protein therapeutics or vaccines.
Tuesday 10 November 2015
Research by chemists at the University of York has demonstrated an innovative way of using a gel to extract precious metals such as silver and gold from waste and convert them into conducting nanoparticles to form a hybrid nanomaterial potentially suitable for a range of high-tech applications.
Monday 9 November 2015
Professor Lucy Carpenter gave her Royal Society Rosalind Franklin lecture at the Royal Society on Wednesday 28 October, and received the Award from Professor Dame Carol Robinson DBE FMedSci FRS, Chair of the Rosalind Franklin Award Committee.
Friday 6 November 2015
MChem project on statistical thermodynamics of food yields publication in 'Food Hydrocolloids’
Tuesday 3 November 2015
A new study by a University of York chemist confirms that historical temperature data records constitute reliable evidence of climate change.
Tuesday 20 October 2015
Catalytic carbon dioxide photoreduction with rhenium-bipyridine-zinc porphyrin dyads has potential for storing solar energy in chemical bonds
Tuesday 20 October 2015
Every chemist knows about hydrogen bonding or thinks they do so