Meet Our Students

Students with Prof. Prasad.
Introducing the College Ambassadors!

Meet Will and Meghan, the department's undergraduate Ambassadors for the College of Arts and Sciences. College Ambassadors are student volunteers who have been nominated by faculty and staff after demonstrating a commitment to academic excellence and community engagement. 

Will Roberts.
Will Roberts

“In addition to the many opportunities for research that the Chemistry Department provides, it offers a welcoming and encouraging home on campus for any student interested in exploring the field.”

Meghan Sullivan.
Meghan Sullivan

"What I like most about the Department of Chemistry at UB are the resources to get involved in the chemistry community, such as UBChemClub, and the many opportunities to be involved in high-impact research as an undergraduate."

UB’s Department of Chemistry is home to students, staff, and faculty from around the world. We are proud of the extraordinary geographical and cultural diversity within the UB Chemistry Community! The map below highlights home towns of our graduate students, undergraduate majors, postdocs, staff, and faculty. 

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World map with pins showing where UB chemists are from.

Graduate Research Highlights

  • January 2016: Andrew Shamp
    2/4/19

    "The research that I do in the Zurek lab comprises the use of evolutionary algorithms and Density Functional Theory to find stable crystal structures at extreme pressures."

  • December 2015: Edgar Jecs
    2/4/19

    "I am working on a project to optimize the properties of anti-cancer drug candidates."

  • November 2015: Kevin Siters
    2/4/19

    "The main focus of my research was to develop very unique Zn(II)-macrocyclic complexes for the recognition of thymine in non-canonical DNA secondary structures, such as G-quadruplexes and bulges."

  • October 2015: Christopher Milleville
    2/4/19

    "My research focuses on the synthesis of colloidal quantum dots and surface functionalization to build quantum dot-molecule-semiconductor interfaces that promote photoinduced charge-transfer."