Professor Tuomas Knowles has received a £250,000 gift from the Frances and Augustus Newman Foundation to set up and run a state-of-the-art microfabrication laboratory.

The department opened its doors to approximately 100 prospective applicants at the Graduate Admissions Open Day on 21 October. 

Dr Lucy Colwell has helped develop an algorithm which models how proteins inside cells interact with each other, shedding light on how proteins work together and aiding our understanding of how living systems work.

A group of researchers led by Gonçalo Bernardes have developed a new site-selective method for the construction of complex protein/antibody conjugates.

Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas and colleagues have discovered a potential safe hydrogen storage method that could pave the way for widespread adoption of hydrogen-fuelled cars. 

The Department of Chemistry will host the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 10^th Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium on 16 December.

197 nations agreed to drastically reduce their use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) at the 28^th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in October.

Over 20 companies and funding bodies attended the first ever Chemistry Networks event, held in the Department on 29 September.

Graduate student Stefano Martiniani and colleagues have developed an improved approach to solving the problem known as the “Curse of Dimensionality”. 

The fifth annual Winton Symposium will be held 3 November at the Cavendish Laboratory on the theme of “Solar Energies – science of light harvesting.”

Professor Jeremy Sanders congratulated his 'old friends', chemists Jean Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa on their Nobel prize in chemistry for developing molecular machines.

"It's good to consider many ideas and reject most, even all of them, on thinking them through," says Professor Shankar Balasubramanian in a recent feature article in Nature Methods.  

Dr Silvia Vignolini and PhD student Rox Middleton have visited the National Museums in Kenya to study a Pollia fossil.

The department is taking part in the first University of Cambridge Postgraduate Open Day on 2 November.

Department of Chemistry researchers and their collaborators have identified important clues about what may be happening to patients when a protein associated with Parkinson's Disease malfunctions.