Crossword Winter 2023 solutions and winner
University of Cambridge travel mugs courtesy Caroline Reid ©University of Cambridge
Jan 29 2024Try your hand at our chemistry cryptic crossword, check your answers, and congratulations to Evert Ditzel who won the prize draw.
National Inventors Hall of Fame honours DNA sequencing pioneers
Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian and Professor Sir David Klenerman were honoured in the 2024 class of National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductees.
Atmospheric science awarded grant to advance climate models
Luke Abraham taken by Michael Webb ©University of Cambridge
Jan 18 2024A climate science project, led by Dr Luke Abraham, has been awarded a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) grant.
Lambda Agri wins a Santander X start up award
Lambda Agri with Tinie Tempah, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Monica Saavedra and Mike Regnier
Jan 15 2024A crop yield improvement technology company, embedded in Professor Dominic Wright’s research group, has been awarded a Santander X prize.
Field trip unfolds DNA mysteries
Chromatin Consortium courtesy of the Marine Biological Laboratory at the University of Chicago.
Jan 11 2024Members of the Collepardo lab took part in a month-long ’Chromatin Consortium’ to help unfold the mysteries of the material that makes up our chromosomes.
Dr Di Martino receives award from Imperial College London
05 January 2024
Dr Giuliana di Martino has been awarded one of Imperial College London's 2024 Alumni Awards in the Emerging Alumni Leader category. Now in their fifth year, the Alumni Awards recognise exceptional professional and academic achievements in three categories and present an opportunity for Imperial...
New discovery contradicts textbook models
Graphic representation of the liquid/air interface in a sodium chloride solution, courtesy Yair Litman
Jan 15 2024Textbook models will need to be re-drawn after a team of researchers found that water molecules at the surface of salt water are organised differently than previously thought.
Professor Nick Jones awarded the IoM3 Harvey Flower Titanium Prize
19 December 2023
Congratulations to Prof. Nick Jones, who was recently awarded the Harvey Flower Titanium Prize at the IoM3’s award dinner in London. The Harvey Flower Titanium Prize is an international award presented to those who have made a substantial scientific or technological contribution to the...
Herchel Smith Fellowship extended application deadline
Herchel Smith Fellow in the Gaunt Group Dr Alexander Fawcett (middle row, far right) is now a Senior Scientist at a local pharma company.
Dec 18 2023We have extended the application deadline for a three-year Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Organic or Biological Chemistry to 31 December 2023.
Nano insights: exploring the quantum forces between water and carbon
Stephen Cox and Anna Bui in the botanical gardens
Feb 1 2024It has been one year since Dr Stephen Cox became a Royal Society University Research Fellow. Since then, he and his growing team have been busy figuring out the fundamentals of friction between individual atoms.
Academics share their research
Professor Angelos Michaelides, courtesy Chemistry Photography
Dec 11 20231968 Professor of Theoretical Chemistry Angelos Michaelides FRS has given the first talk in a lecture series which will give academics the opportunity to share their research with other department members.
Dr Di Martino elected a Fellow of the IoM3
11 December 2023
We are delighted to share the news that Dr Giuliana Di Martino, Associate Professor in the Device Materials Group, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). Congratulations on this recognition!
Department entrepreneurs garner recognition
Finalists in the competition, Mark Carrington (left) and Dr Kamil Sokowlowski (right) at the awards ceremony, courtesy Cambridge Enterprise
Dec 11 2023Two members of our department made it to the finals of the Chris Abell Postdoc Business Plan competition in November.