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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Megan Brattley stands in front of a board with her presentation on Protein Modification with Platinum.

Megan Brattley, an Honors College senior graduating this spring 2025, was recruited by 窪蹋勛圖厙 as a softball player from the small town of Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. For two years, she played her heart out on  as both a catcher and utility player, taking a break this year to focus on her academic goals, with sights set on a career in oncology.

Northeast Ohio Undergraduate Research Symposium 2024

窪蹋勛圖厙 welcomed undergraduate researchers from our university, Cleveland State University and the University of Akron to the Kent Campus for the 19th annual Northeast Ohio Undergraduate Research Symposium.

The Child Development Center visits the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Curious, young minds from the Child Development Center enjoyed hands-on learning about the ways the world works during a visit to 窪蹋勛圖厙's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. 

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Cirque du Chem demonstration

A circus came to the Integrated Sciences Building this spring in the form of "Cirque du Chem," presented the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

窪蹋勛圖厙 Assistant Professor Marianne Prevot shows a safety senor she is developing.

Small sensors about the size of a postage stamp could one day save the lives of firefighters, soldiers and other workers who face the threat of toxic gases or vapors on the job. 

 

Image of professor Fouad and a student working in the lab

Farid Fouad, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at 窪蹋勛圖厙 East Liverpool, was awarded a three-year, $74,954 research grant as part of a subaward on a larger grant that his collaborators at Cleveland State University received. 

Congratulations to Torsten Hegmann, Ph.D., and his research group for leading an international collaboration and publishing their work in Science Advances! Their article, titled Effects of shape and solute-solvent compatibility on the efficacy of chirality transfer: Nanoshapes in nematics was featured on the Science Advances website.

窪蹋勛圖厙 Professor Hanbin Mao, Ph.D., and graduate student Shankar Pandey

In a new study, 窪蹋勛圖厙 Professor Hanbin Mao and other researchers report the creation of an artificial molecule with superpowers. It has the potential to revolutionize nanotechnology and it also explains one of natures intriguing enigmas: Why do we have a right hand and a left hand?