The Japan Agency for Medical Research & Development (AMED) and the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) selected Prof. Hugh NAKAMURA as one of the 2021-22 Interstellar Initiative Early Career Investigators on 28 July 2022

Prof. Jianzhen YU was awarded as Fellow, Asian Aerosol Research Assembly in May 2022 and received the award at Asian Aerosol Conference 2022 in June 2022

Prof. Jason Kwan Kit CHAN received the 2021 Secretary for Home Affairs' Commendation Scheme Award on 6 June 2022

Prof. Ding PAN was awarded the School of Science Research Award 2021-22

UG (CHEM) Year 4 students Miss Qiaolin YAN (Supervisor: Prof. Jianwei SUN) and Miss Shan Qi YAP (Supervisor: Prof. Haibin SU) won the First Runners-up of the 2022 Mr Armin and Mrs Lillian Kitchell Undergraduate Research Award (UROP)

Prof. Ding PAN was identified by the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics as one of the 2021 Emerging Leaders

Prof. Haipeng LU was selected by the Royal Society of Chemistry Nanoscale as Emerging Investigator, 2022

The Department of Chemistry in HKUST is ranked no. 30 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022

Prof Jianwei SUN has been awarded over HK$6M from the Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) to develop new chiral catalysts for asymmetric synthesis. This is the only project funded for fundamental chemistry research in this round of exercise

PhD student Mr. Gianmarco Domenico SUAREZ (Supervisor: Prof. Stefan NAGL) was awarded the Poster Presentation Award at the 28th Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong organized by Hong Kong Baptist University on 6 Nov 2021