Co-founded by Chemistry and Biochemistry’s Sang Bok Lee, the company received a Phase 1 Microbattery Design Prize from the U.S. Department of Energy.

A team of researchers including Chemistry and Biochemistry’s YuHuang Wang makes a breakthrough discovery for cancer diagnostics. 

Friedman, who joined UMD in 2007, shares his experiences and insights in his role. 

Honors & Awards (received since Jul 1, 2023)

184 students graduated from the college in August 2023.

A visitor to the lab that Lisa Bird (B.S. ’89, chemistry; M.S. ’98, food science) runs at McCormick and Co. experiences a moment of aromatic disorientation; it smells like a vast banquet—a ginger- and garlic-infused stir fry, a coconut cookie, a bratwurst—but all this alchemy is contained in several glass vials lined up on the kitchen-like counter.

The chemistry and biochemistry professor will lead a new project supported by a $500,000 grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

University of Maryland researchers studied synaptic changes in an animal model before and after it developed vision, which plays a key role in circadian rhythm.

Learn how our alums are working to improve human health.

The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is pleased to announce that Hong- Zhou Ye will join the University of Maryland as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in August, 2024. Hong-Zhou Ye is a theoretical quantum chemist known for developing and applying new computational methods to address chemistry challenges in both molecular and condensed- phase systems.