The Department of Chemistry in HKUST is ranked no. 31 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021

Prof. Jianwei Sun and his research team find novel way to produce new kind of chiral molecules bringing new hope for drug development

Prof. Jianzhen Yu received the 2020 Distinguished Alumna Award from the Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Prof. Xuhui HUANG was awarded Pople Medal from Asia-Pacific Association of Theoretical & Computational Chemists in 2021 for the development of statistical mechanics based methods to elucidate conformational dynamics of complexed biological macromolecules

5 CHEM research staff and PG students won the Best Presentation Awards at the 27th Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong organized by HKU on 17 Oct 2020

Prof. He YAN has been awarded “Xplorer Prize” by “Tencent Foundation”

Prof. Ding PAN and Prof. Qing CHEN have been awarded Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau) 2020 by the Natural Science Foundation of China

Prof. Xuhui HUANG has been awarded 16th China Youth Science and Technology Award (中国青年科技奖)

Prof. Henry He YAN has been elected RGC Research Fellow 2020-21 by Research Grants Council.

UG (CHEM) Yr 3 student Matthew Ting Hei WONG (Supervisor: Prof. Jianwei SUN) won the first runner-up of the 2020 Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award