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

Three PhD (CHEM) students were awarded the "2019/20 School of Science Postgraduate Research Excellence Award" for their outstanding achievements in research

The Department of Chemistry in the University of Science and Technology is ranked no. 29 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020

A research team led by Prof. Jianzhen YU untangle links between nitrogen oxides and airborne sulfates bringing new hope to improvement of hazy air pollution