Paul Chirik has been named a 2022 Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the most distinctive honors in the scientific community, for establishing the field of catalysis using Earth-abundant elements and demonstrating its impact on sustainable chemistry. 

A charitable fund started by David MacMillan with monies from his 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has made its inaugural gift to the University of Glasgow, MacMillan’s alma mater. The gift was announced this week by Glasgow.

Weichman, who joined the Princeton Chemistry faculty in 2020, earned the NSF CAREER grant for her proposal, “Gas-Phase Molecular Polaritons: A New Platform for Chemistry Under Strong Light-Matter Coupling.” She will investigate the behavior of these emergent phenomena to find interesting new science.

What have the intervening months been like for Beryl Li, Jake Ganley, and Shiming Lei since they left Princeton Chemistry, and how do they view their time at Frick? In this All-Star Q&A Part I, we get some answers on life and work in the real world from three recent alums.