The 250-mile, 12-day trek, taken in support of climate and weather science, included a stop in College Park for a discussion with Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Professor Ross Salawitch.

Faculty members in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will guide the students participating in the study camp.

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry celebrated the retirements of the three long-time faculty members on May 15.

When chemistry Ph.D. candidate Manny Bazan-Bergamino isn’t playing his clarinet, you can find him developing “molecular containers” that flush drugs out of the body.

These high-achieving students will lead their classmates into the university's Commencement Ceremony.

The award is cosponsored by Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Allen Family Philanthropies, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation and The Kavli Foundation.  

The rare-earth metals used to build our phones, electric vehicles and renewable energy systems are extraordinarily difficult to recover and recycle. Traditional extraction methods are slow and chemically intensive and often yield impure results. Researchers Mercedes Taylor and Michael Baptiste have designed a molecule that solves this problem by self-assembling around rare-earth ions to selectively bind and separate them from complex mixtures. The process is rapid, recyclable and precise, with the potential to build a more sustainable and reliable supply chain to support clean energy infrastructure.

In the lab, chemistry Ph.D. student Mya Gaddy uses light to build synthetic molecules for drug development. She also supports her peers as vice president of UMD’s Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate Student Organization.

NIH data strategy czar Susan Gregurick (Ph.D. ’95, chemistry) brings her science success story to UMD as keynote speaker for the 2026 CMNS Doctoral Commencement Ceremony.

Isaac Robinson credits great teachers, scholarships and his job at Giant for guiding him “home.”