PAUL CHIRIK receives Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award

Posted on November 15, 2016 by

Paul Chirik, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Chemistry, was among five recipients nationwide of the 2016 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards presented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Chirik was recognized for discovering a Continue Reading →

Bright future: Princeton researchers unlock the potential of light to perform previously impossible feats

Posted on November 11, 2016 by Catherine Zandonella

By Bennett McIntosh One hundred years ago, Italian chemist Giacomo Ciamician predicted a future society that would run on sunlight. In a paper presented in 1912 to an international meeting of chemists in New York Continue Reading →

New chemistry aids drug development

Posted on November 19, 2015 by

DRUG DEVELOPMENT OFTEN INVOLVES modifying the chemical structure to get the right combination of properties, such as stability and activity. Working in the laboratory of John Groves, the Hugh Stott Taylor Chair of Chemistry, undergraduate Continue Reading →