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.

In a story about “chemophobia,” or the fear of chemicals, The Boston Globe highlights the research of Gordon Gribble , the Dartmouth Professor of Chemistry.

Dartmouth researchers have taken an important step in the ongoing battle against secondhand tobacco smoke. They have pioneered the development of a breakthrough device that can immediately detect the presence of secondhand smoke and even thirdhand smoke.

With a pyrotechnic demonstration, Professor F. Jo n Kull ’88 initiates students into the mysteries of chemistry while simultaneously engaging, educating, and entertaining them.

“You look at the material world and see objects and how you can use them. I look at the material world and see a fascinating hidden life which is within our control, if we can only understand how it works,” says Jane Lipson , the Albert W. Smith Professor of Chemistry at Dartmouth.

The graduate programs in Dartmouth’s departments of biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics and astronomy have been awarded more than $2 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Education through the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program.