A paper by Professor Ellen Sletten, her group, and MIT researchers, including Professor Justin Caram’s MIT postdoctoral work, was highlighted in the journal. The researchers originally published “Flavylium Polymethine Fluorophores for Near- and Shortwave Infrared Imaging” in the 9 October 2017 issue of Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. , and it was flagged as a “Hot […]

Professor and dean of the division of physical sciences Miguel Garcia-Garibay featured in Chemical & Engineering (C&EN). The article about underrepresented minority faculty in chemistry was published in the November 6, 2017 issue of C&EN, a weekly magazine published by the American Chemical Society. To learn more about García-Garibay’s research, visit his group’s website. García-Garibay (seated) with […]

Biochemistry, Molecular & Structural Biology (BMSB) graduate students volunteered at the annual Exploring Your Universe event. The annual science festival took place on Sunday, November 5, 2017. The Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) hosted a booth where children and their families could extract DNA from strawberries. BMSB graduate students helped the children to smash the strawberries, […]

The department recently hosted international visitors from China, Sri Lanka, and Uzbekistan for the US Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Dr. Qian Zhang (Vice Dean, Chemistry Department, Northeast Normal University; China), Dr. Vinitha Thadhani (Sr. Research Scientist, Sri Lankan Institute of Nanotechnology; Visiting Sr. Lecturer, Institute of Chemistry; Sri Lanka), and Dr. Shakhlokhon […]

Professors Anastassia Alexandrova & Sarah Tolbert featured in The Journal of Physical Chemistry issue honoring Marie Curie’s 150th birthday. The Special Issue, published on November 2, 2017, highlights the science and publications by 66 women physical chemists who have published highly sighted papers in JPC and an editorial with information about the history of papers authored by women, beginning with […]

Nobel Laureate Thomas Cech (University of Colorado Boulder) gave the Fall 2017 Distinguished Lecture to an audience of over 300 people. Cech is director of the University of Colorado BioFrontiers Institute and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman, for their discovery of the catalytic properties […]

Alumna Dr Tanya Petrossian (BS Biochemistry ’05, PhD Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ’10) appointed Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Entrepreneur in Residence.  The Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIR) program helps successful entrepreneurs in Los Angeles connect with future business leaders and foster growth in their industries. Over the course of her year of service, Petrossian will help to shape […]

Professor Katja Lindenberg (University of California, San Diego) presented the 11th annual Robert Scott lecture on October 16, 2017.   Lindenberg, the Chancellor’s Associates Chair Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the UC San Diego, is widely known for her research on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. She has addressed problems such as energy and information transport in biopolymers, […]