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Recent News

 

Olvera de la Cruz brings chemical simulations into the real world

Monica Olvera de la Cruz bridges theoretical and experimental science through chemical simulations, combining physics, biology, and chemistry. Recently featured in Chemical & Engineering News' series The Revolutión, she is celebrated for her impactful contributions as a chemist with Latin American roots.

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U.S. Department of Energy reinvests in Northwestern’s quantum science research

Northwestern’s Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction, led by Michael R. Wasielewski, has been awarded funding through the Department of Energy’s Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) program. This support will further CMQT’s groundbreaking work in quantum transduction, advancing the understanding of information exchange between quantum systems.

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Northwestern Chemistry Announces Incoming Department Chair

Omar K. Farha, the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in Chemistry and a leader in the rational design of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), has been selected as the new chair of the Northwestern University Department of Chemistry. Farha began his three-year term on September 1, succeeding Teri Odom, the Joan Husting Madden and William H. Madden, Jr. Professor of Chemistry.

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Announcements & Events

 

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Mercouri Kanatzidis received the 2025 ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials

 

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Faculty Position

 

Northwestern Chemistry seeks applicants for a full-time tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level

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Community Spotlight

 

The faculty, students, alumni, and staff who comprise our department are dedicated to outstanding research and scholarship.

Summer Newsletter

 

Welcome to our Summer Newsletter! This academic year has been a challenging one for higher education, and Northwestern Chemistry has worked hard to adjust and respond to changes on campus. As is our want, though, we wrapped up a full year and celebrated appropriately. Our graduate students continue to impress with their research, recognition with national fellowships, and College teaching awards. Our staff were also honored by the College for their dedicated service. Our teaching-track faculty kept the pace, and for the third straight year, they received a College teaching award. Moreover, faculty were elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and were very recently recognized as a recipient of the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience. And so, we wrap up this year! This newsletter will be my last as Chair—I’ve been grateful for the opportunity to share with you quarterly how the department is leading in research solutions to address urgent problems in energy, sustainability, and medicine; how our graduate training program is evolving and supporting student success; and how our world-class IMSERC facility and (near annual!) acquisition of leading-edge instrumentation sets us apart. As readers of our happenings, I’m sure that you can appreciate the complexity of Northwestern Chemistry. I hope that you are proud to be part of and will continue to contribute to our community.

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Our Research

 

Research at the Department of Chemistry is innovative, collaborative and interdisciplinary by nature.

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