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Presidents' Day

Administrative No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm. Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics. Monday, February 16, 2026. For more info visit www.washington.edu.

MSACST Career Seminar Series: Avantika Singh

"TBD" Avantika Singh, Natera Hosts: Dan Fu and Sharon Durfy. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Chemistry Building (CHB). Campus room: CHB 102. Accessibility Contact: Sharon Durfy. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Students in Chemistry MS in Applied Chemical Science & Technology and Chemistry PhD students. Thursday, February 19, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Joshua Buss

Inorganic Seminars "Cartography with Clusters: Mapping Surface Science Mechanisms with Atomic Precision" The most important global chemical processes rely on multimetallic catalysts that facilitate difficult bond making and bond breaking transformations. Many of these catalysts take the form of evolutionarily optimized enzymatic machinery, while equally vital are engineered heterogeneous catalysts used in large-scale industrial chemical transformations. A significant challenge in optimizing existing catalysts and discovering or designing new ones is the lack of fundamental mechanistic understanding of the elementary chemical processes taking place at the active site. My research group addresses this knowledge gap by employing inorganic synthesis to prepare and study multimetallic complexes that adopt design features prevalent in both industrial and enzymatic catalysis. This talk will describe the synthesis of an unusual, low-valent multicopper cluster that serves as a soluble fragment of crystalline Cu(111). Studies investigat… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bagley Hall (BAG). Campus room: BAG 260. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM. For more info visit sites.lsa.umich.edu.

Organic Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Eleftheria Roumeli

Organic Seminars "Advances in Sustainable Materials Using Biomatter: From Strong and Stiff Plastics to Tunable Soft Hydrogels." Associate Professor Eleftheria Roumeli - Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington Host: Alshakim Nelson The development of sustainable materials from biological matter (biomatter) offers a transformative pathway to address global environmental challenges while enabling innovation in sectors such as biomedicine, packaging, and structural materials. This talk presents recent advances in biomatter-based materials, focusing on bacterial cellulose–based multicomponent hydrogels and fully biobased thermoplastic solids derived from raw algal biomass. In the soft materials regime, we engineer structurally tunable hydrogel networks by synergistically combining bacterial cellulose with agar and xanthan gum. By systematically varying component ratios and crosslinking conditions, we probe how hydrogen bonding, ionic interactions, and phase continuity control network mechanics,… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Chemistry Building (CHB). Campus room: CHB 102. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: This event is part of a series highlighting interdisciplinary research and collaboration across the Department of Chemistry, the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering, and the Department of Architecture. You are also invited to view the Exhibition, February 2 through March 6, 2026, and to attend the Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute seminar on March 3. Thursday, February 26, 2026, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM. For more info visit faculty.washington.edu.

Chemistry Faculty Meeting

*Open Session. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Chemistry Building (CHB). Campus room: CHB 102. Accessibility Contact: Veronica Howell, atchmchr@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Event sponsors: For assistance, please contact Veronica Howell, atchmchr@uw.edu or 206.543.1611. Target Audience: Faculty. Thursday, February 26, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

Physical Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Christopher Grieco

Physical Seminars "Probing Charge Carriers in Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conducting Polymers" Assistant Professor Christopher Grieco - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University Hosts: Munira Khalil and David Ginger  Conjugated polymers continue to emerge as next-generation electronic materials for mixed ionic-electronic conduction applications, ranging from biomedical sensing to energy storage. However, their development is hampered by a lack of rational design principles due to missing fundamental knowledge about how ion-charge interactions and dynamic polymer nanostructure influence charge transport and storage along polymer chains. In this talk, I will first discuss how we are exploiting the ultrafast dynamics of photoexcited charge carriers to provide details on their nanoscale environment and trapping behavior. Then I will show how in situ electronic and vibrational spectroscopy of polymer electrodes can be used to track their complex nanoscale dynamics during charging, revealing insights into nanostructures… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bagley Hall (BAG). Campus room: BAG 260. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM. For more info visit www.auburn.edu.

Physical Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Jay Foley

Physical Seminars "TBD" Associate Professor Jay Foley - Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina Charlotte Host: Niri Govind. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Chemistry Building (CHB). Campus room: CHB 102. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM. For more info visit chemistry.charlotte.edu.

Organic Chemistry Seminar: Noah Dunham

Organic Seminars "TBD" Noah Dunham, Merck Biocatalysis Hosts: Lauren Rajakovich and Mike Gelb. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Chemistry Building (CHB). Campus room: CHB 102. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, March 12, 2026, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM.

George H. Cady Endowed Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry: Prof. Hemamala Karunadasa

Inorganic Seminars George H. Cady Endowed Lecture in Inorganic Chemistry "Single-Crystal Halide Perovskite Heterostructures" Professor Hemamala Karunadasa - Department of Chemistry, Stanford University Host: Douglas Reed Layered heterostructures, formed one monolayer at a time, can host exciting emergent properties at the interfaces where two monolayers meet. Although impressive advances have been made in controlling these exquisite architectures, these approaches do not readily afford inexpensive, scalable, and reproducible syntheses. This motivates the development of one-pot syntheses of heterostructures as crystalline solids, where the precise 3D atomic coordinates of the interfaces can be resolved through single-crystal X-ray diffraction. We recently reported a synthetic strategy for the self-assembly of layered perovskite–non-perovskite heterostructures into single crystals in solution, using organic molecules as structure-directing agents (Figure). I will present various layered heterostructures that form as an… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Johnson Hall (JHN). Campus room: JHN 075. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: The George H. Cady Endowed Lectureship in Chemistry was established in memory of Prof. Cady by his family and many friends and colleagues in 1994. George H. Cady earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1930 under the direction of Joel H. Hildebrand. Cady held positions at the University of South Dakota, M.I.T. U.S. Rubber Company, and Pittsburgh Plate Glass before joining the UW as assistant professor in 1938. He worked on the Man… Monday, March 16, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM. For more info visit chemistry.stanford.edu.

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Hemamala Karunadasa

Inorganic Seminars "TBD" Professor Hemamala Karunadasa - Department of Chemistry, Stanford University Host:  Douglas Reed. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bagley Hall (BAG). Campus room: BAG 260. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM. For more info visit chemistry.stanford.edu.

Organic Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Beat Fierz

Organic Seminars "TBD" Professor Beat Fierz - Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Host: Champak Chatterjee. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Chemistry Building (CHB). Campus room: CHB 102. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, March 19, 2026, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM. For more info visit www.epfl.ch.

MSACST Career Seminar Series: Aaron Whittaker

"TBD" Aaron Whittaker, Pfizer Hosts: Dan Fu and Sharon Durfy. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Chemistry Building (CHB). Campus room: CHB 102. Accessibility Contact: Sharon Durfy. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Students in Chemistry MS in Applied Chemical Science & Technology and Chemistry PhD students. Thursday, March 19, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

Analytical Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Wei Min

Analytical Seminars "TBD" Professor Wei Min - Department of Chemistry, Columbia University Hosts: Daniel Chiu, Joshua Vaughan, Dan Fu, Bo Zhang. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Monday, March 30, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM. For more info visit www.chem.columbia.edu.

Physical Chemistry Seminar: Prof. Wei Min

Physical Seminars "TBD" Professor Wei Min - Department of Chemistry, Columbia University Hosts: Daniel Chiu, Joshua Vaughan, Dan Fu, Bo Zhang. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM. For more info visit www.chem.columbia.edu.

Chemistry Group Walk

Administrative The first Wednesday in April is National Walking Day, and the American Heart Association encourages everyone to go out for at least a 30-minute walk. Join Diana Knight for a 30-minute group walk, leaving at 12:30 pm from the Bagley lobby on April 1. Dress for the weather. Walking is about more than physical fitness. This is an opportunity to step out of your lab or office with coworkers to make new connections, share in discoveries, enliven the mind, and energize the spirit. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Bagley Hall (BAG). Campus room: Lobby. Accessibility Contact: chemdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Target Audience: Anyone from the Chemistry community! Students of all levels, postdocs, staff, faculty, and alumni! Twitter: #uwwalkweek. Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM.

MS in Applied Chemical Science & Technology Program

The University of Washington Department of Chemistry Master of Science in Applied Chemical Science & Technology (MSACST) invites all interested STEM students to an online information session about the program. The application for starting in Autumn 2026 or Winter 2027 is open! The Priority Consideration deadline is January 31, 2026.  Go to the Online Meeting Link in this listing to RSVP and obtain the Zoom link for this info session.   MSACST is designed for STEM students interested in advanced chemical and data science tools for careers in biotech, pharmaceuticals, clean energy, climate science and more.  The program features a cutting-edge curriculum with the opportunity to conduct research with nationally and internationally recognized faculty, in a flexible format that allows students to choose between 3 Tracks and complete their degree in 1 or 2 years. Faculty supporting MSACST student research experiences are from diverse departments across the UW campus, including Biochemistry, Chemistry, Atmospheric… Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://www.appliedchem.uw.edu/event?sfid=701Hs000001KHuQIAW. Accessibility Contact: Sharon Durfy. Event Types: Academics. Information Sessions. Target Audience: Undergraduate Students. Thursday, April 2, 2026, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM. Online. For more info visit www.appliedchem.uw.edu.

MSACST Career Seminar Series: David Bunck

"TBD" David Bunck, SciVida Hosts: Dan Fu and Sharon Durfy. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Chemistry Building (CHB). Accessibility Contact: Sharon Durfy. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Students in Chemistry MS in Applied Chemical Science & Technology and Chemistry PhD students. Thursday, April 9, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

MSACST Career Seminar Series: Alejo Lifschitz

"TBD" Alejo Lifschitz, Meta Hosts: Dan Fu and Sharon Durfy. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Chemistry Building (CHB). Campus room: CHB 102. Accessibility Contact: Sharon Durfy. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Students in Chemistry MS in Applied Chemical Science & Technology and Chemistry PhD students. Thursday, April 16, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

33rd Chemistry Awards Dinner

This event is by invitation only. If you are a current Chemistry student who has won an award from another UW department or from an external agency, please contact Diana Knight by January 15, 2026. If you are an alum of the Department of Chemistry and are interested in attending, please contact Diana Knight. The Department of Chemistry is committed to providing access and accommodation. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition for this event, contact us at chem59x@uw.edu. Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events. Thursday, April 23, 2026, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM.

MSACST Career Seminar Series: Gwen Gross

"TBD" Gwen Gross, Boeing Hosts: Dan Fu and Sharon Durfy. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Chemistry Building (CHB). Campus room: CHB 102. Accessibility Contact: Sharon Durfy. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Students in Chemistry MS in Applied Chemical Science & Technology and Chemistry PhD students. Thursday, April 30, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.

P. C. Cross Endowed Lecture in Physical Chemistry: Prof. Maksym Kovalenko

Physical Seminars P. C. Cross Endowed Lecture in Physical Chemistry "Title TBD" Professor Maksym Kovalenko - Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich Host: David Ginger. Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: TBD. Accessibility Contact: chem59x@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: This lecture is supported by the Paul C. Cross Endowed Fund, dedicated to the memory of Professor Paul C. Cross by his family and many friends and colleagues in 2002. Prof. Cross was a distinguished physical chemist who led the effort to elevate the UW Department of Chemistry to national prominence when he served as professor and chair from 1949 to 1961. Prof. Cross promoted departmental growth through the expansion of the graduate program, his emphasis on the acquisition and construction of revolutionary… Monday, May 4, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM. For more info visit kovalenkolab.ethz.ch.

MSACST Career Seminar Series: Ryan Lyski

"TBD" Ryan Lyski, Pfizer Hosts: Dan Fu and Sharon Durfy. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Chemistry Building (CHB). Campus room: CHB 102. Accessibility Contact: Sharon Durfy. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Students in Chemistry MS in Applied Chemical Science & Technology and Chemistry PhD students. Thursday, May 14, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.