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A review article entitled “Pumps through the Ages” has just appeared in Chem, as part of the journal’s celebration to mark its first five years since its launch in 2015. Intense interactions between experimentalist Yunyan Qiu and molecular-machine theorist Dean Astumian from University of Maine, have led to this review being published in the August

Former Postdoctoral Fellow Cristian Pezzato has received the Ciamician Medal from the Italian Chemical Society. The medal is awarded to a young promising chemist at the start of an independent career by the Organic Chemistry Division of the society. During his time (2015–2018) at Northwestern, Cristian made intellectual impactful and experimentally innovative contributions to the

Tamara Kosikova, a joint member of the Philp and Stoddart Groups, is departing her position as Postdoctoral Researcher at NU for an exciting new career in scientific publishing. Tamara will become a publishing editor at the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge / UK on July 27, 2020. As a joint member of the Philp

Fraser recently penned a Viewpoint on the “Dawning of the Age of Molecular Nanotopology” which was published in Nano Letters on July 14, 2020. He points out that knotting molecules imposes tightness and nanoconfinement on them, even in aqueous solution, and suggests that molecular knots could offer the opportunity to take the chemistry of artificial