Department of Chemistry

  1. December 4, 2024

    Teams aim to protect frogs, bats, bees in innovative ways

    Thanks in part to LSA’s Meet the Moment Research Initiative grants, two research teams are working toward a better future for humans and Earth’s critters alike.

  2. September 16, 2024

    It Happened at Michigan — A lab for future chemists

    Shortly after becoming U-M’s first president, Henry Tappan declared in December 1855 that there was a strong need “to erect a chemical laboratory for the analytical courses” on campus.

  3. August 26, 2024

    Obituary — John Robert Wiseman

    John Robert Wiseman, professor emeritus of chemistry, died peacefully July 30 at the age of 88.

  4. May 29, 2024

    U-M chemist receives national Brown Investigator award

    LSA professor Kerri Pratt is among the 2024 class of Brown Investigators, the first class selected through the newly formed Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech.

  5. February 12, 2024

    Obituary — Daniel T. Longone

    Daniel (Dan) T. Longone, professor emeritus of chemistry and well known culinary and wine historian, died peacefully Jan. 28 in Ann Arbor at the age of 91.

  6. July 25, 2022

    Obituary — Christer E. Nordman

    Christer E. Nordman, professor emeritus of chemistry, died peacefully at home July 6, 2022, at the age of 97. In 1955, he joined the chemistry faculty at U-M, becoming a full professor of chemistry in 1964.

  7. April 18, 2022

    Chemistry lab’s focus on plastics inspires Earth Day cleanup

    The McNeil lab’s twice-a-year Huron River Watershed cleanups, which pick up trash from Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti metroparks, is an extension of the lab’s focus on chemical recycling and upcycling of plastics.

  8. October 25, 2021

    Obituary — Thomas Mellanby Dunn

    A memorial service is planned Nov. 13 for Thomas Mellanby Dunn, professor emeritus of chemistry, who died Nov. 6, 2020, at the Summit Hills Nursing Home in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

  9. March 25, 2019

    Professor builds network of underrepresented chemists in Diversify Chemistry

    When Anne McNeil attended an American Chemical Society conference a couple years ago, she was surprised to find a symposium in her field with no invited women speakers. That prompted her to launch Diversify Chemistry to help people find individuals from historically underrepresented backgrounds in chemistry. 

  10. May 12, 2017

    A cheaper, greener way to grow key components for electronics

    U-M chemists have developed a greener, cheaper way to make single-crystalline semiconductor films, components at the heart of all of our electric gadgetry.