Congratulations to research professors Tom Spencer and Dave Lemal on their recent 80th birthdays. They founded our synthetic organic chemistry graduate program, helped build it to prominence, and are still doing research.

Xin Su from the Aprahamian group wins a prestigious award from the Chinese Government

15 Dartmouth graduate students took part in Communicating Science, a term-long class on how to communicate their research more effectively. The course was based on a model pioneered by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University.

Gordon Gribble was given a chemistry set at age 10, and he was hooked for life. “I knew then I wanted to be some kind of chemist,” he says. Today, the San Francisco native champions the battle against “chemophobia,” which he defines as an exaggerated and irrational fear of chemicals.

Dean of Graduate Studies and the Rodgers Professor of Chemistry F. Jon Kull '88 offers advice to incoming members of the Class of 2017.