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Congratulations, David Nagib, for being selected as Ohio State’s first recipient of one of the Blavatnik Foundation’s National Award for Young Scientists.
Many congratulations to David on…
Congratulations, Dr. Anne Co, on being named a 2026 ACS Fellow!
This is well-deserved!
Christine Thomas has been appointed Editor-In-Chief of the major Royal Society of Chemistry Journal that handles publications in the topic of inorganic chemistry, Dalton Transaction.
Her…
Walter J. Zahurancik (Gopalan Lab) was recently featured in the "Meet the First Authors" series in Trends in Pharmacological Sciences.
Meet the First Authors is a…
Congratulations, Spencer Witte (Schultz Lab), on being selected to receive the 2026 Barbara Stull Graduate Student Award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy!
Excellent news, Spencer!…
Congratulations, Rahul Giri from Prof. Shiyu Zhang's lab, for being awarded the prestigious Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) PostDoc mobility fellowship!
Well-deserved!
Congratulations, Chris Jaroniec, who received the 2026 Distinguished Scholar Award!
Well-deserved!
Congratulations, Purva Damale, on receiving an Eastman/ACS Analytical Graduate Fellowship!
Well-deserved, Purva!
Congratulations, Nitesh Kumar, on receiving the 2026 ACS Future Pharma Innovator Award!
Nitesh is a member of Badjic Group.
Well-deserved, Nitesh!
Congratulations, Carly Kern, on receiving an NSF GRFP Honorable Mention!
Carly is currently a first year in Shiyu Zhang's Lab.
Well-deserved, Carly!
Congratulations, Alex Zumock, on being awarded a 2026 NSF Predoctoral GRF fellowship Award!
Alex is a BS from our department with research in Abraham Badu's group and is currently a first…
Congratulations, Ryan Yoder, on receiving the 2026 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching!
Well-deserved!
Congratulations, Jaclyn Rebstock, on being selected for an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation. Well-deserved!
Jaclyn is a former member of Robert Baker's…
Congratulations, Shiyu, on receiving the 2025-26 ASC Mid-Career Excellence Award!
Well-deserved!
Congratulations, Dr. Karin Musier-Forsyth, on being selected to receive the 2026 RNA Society / Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Distinguished Research Mentor Award!
This is a well…
Congratulations, Davita Watkins, on being selected as one of three senior scientist to receive a 2026 Holland Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. The award is given for…
Congratulations to Dr. Abraham Babu-Tawiah, who co-founded PantroniX. PantroniX is one of the nine organizations that will receive a portion of the nearly $1.8M approved by The Ohio Third Frontier…
Congratulations, Ruby Mitchell and Elton Cao on being selected as OSU’s BSP Scholars for 2024-2025!
A key activity for the BSP Scholars at OSU is to work with Prof…
Congratulations, Kotaro, on receiving the 2025 Innovators in Healthcare and Life Sciences Award from Business First.
The award recognizes individuals and organizations making…
Congratulations NOBBChE on being awarded Best Professional Development at the NOBBChE conference!
Amazing news!
City Therapeutics, a company founded by Kotaro, made the news by securing $1 billion collaboration with Biogen. This exciting news was featured in today’s On Campus.
Congratulations, Kotaro…
Congratulations, Claudia, on being awarded the 2026 Josef Michl ACS Award in Photochemistry!
Well deserved, Claudia!
For more information, click 2026 ACS National Awards.
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Congratulations, Davita Watkins for being named ACS Fellow!
Davits is fully deserving of this very prestigious recognition – Congratulations!
The Fellow of the American Chemical…
Congratulations, Zac Schultz. for being named the 2025 Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
Fellows Award: This award is established to…
Cassie Miller was awarded an Engaged Graduate Student Research Seed Grant!
Congrats, Cassie!
Biogen and City Therapeutics announce strategic research collaboration to develop select novel RNAi-based therapies. Congratulations to this Ohio State startup founded on technology developed by…
On Friday, May 16th, we had a ribbon cutting ceremony of National Gateway Ultrahigh Field NMR Center in the CBEC basement!
What an honor!
Congratulations, Andrew Lorig, on being given the 2024-2025 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award!
Excellent work, Andrew!
Congratulations, Özlem Doğan Ekici, for receiving the OSU Newark Scholarly Accomplishment Award 2025 and the OSU Newark Scholarly Activity Award, 2025-2028!
Outstanding news, Özlem!
Congratulations, Yiying Wu, for being selected as a 2025 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor!
The title of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor serves to honor full…
Lisa Nguyen received the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer! Outstanding news that continues to highlight the commitment that our department has to teaching.
Nicole Karn was featured in C&EN News for the case study she created on the East Palestine derailment.
Congrats, Nicole!
Amanda Hummon receives the 2024-2025 Outstanding Teaching Award
ASC Outstanding Teaching Award: Recognizes a College of Arts and Sciences faculty member for…
2024-2025 Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award
This award recognizes a faculty member from within The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences whose…
2024-2025 Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award
The Hatcher Award recognizes a full professor in the College of Arts and Sciences who, over a…
Dehua Pei has been named a 2025 Distinguished Scholar!
The Distinguished Scholar Award honors six faculty members who demonstrate scholarly activity, research or creative…
Please join me in congratulating the winners of the AU24 John S. Swenton Award for Outstanding Teaching! This award recognizes outstanding contributions by GTAs in our department each semester. …
Click here for a write up on recent work by Dr. Tomaz Neves-Garcia, a postdoctoral researcher in the Baker group.
Tomaz was one of the graduate students in the USP-OSU Dual Degree Program…
Congratulations, Meera Madhu (advisor: Bern Kohler), on being awarded the Presidential Fellowship by the Graduate School in the 2024 competition. The Presidential Fellowship is the most…
Congratulations, John Herbert, on being selected as the Chair 2026 (Chair-elect ‘25) for the COMP division!
In this position, John will help shape the direction of the division!
Great…
Congratulations, Abby Fisk and Hariharan Kannan on being selected as OSU’s BSP Scholars for 2023-2024!
A key activity for the BSP Scholars at OSU is to work with…
Two start-ups have launched to develop next-generation drugs using small interfering RNA (siRNA) to silence genes.
To read more, click here.
Congratulations, Kotaro on being a co-founder of a startup, City Therapeutics! It launched with $135 million in financing to lead the future of RNAi-based medicine.
Outstanding news!
Check out this OSU news article entitled: Novel chemical tool aims to streamline drug-making process.
Excellent work, Christo!
Congratulations, Shiyu Zhang, on receiving the American Chemical Society Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator.
The…
In this interview, Prof. Wu discusses his research, shares his plans for the journal as Deputy Editor, and reveals which emerging areas of interest he's most excited to see published.
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To read more on Dr. Baker's study revealing a more efficient method to create methanol, click here.
Great work, Robert!
Congratulations, Montgomery Gray, on being awarded the ACS Computers & Chemistry (COMP) division’s Graduate Student Excellence Award! This award will be given at the 2024 fall ACS meeting in…
Congratulations, Alex Sokolov, on receiving the 2024 World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC) Dirac Medal!
This is one of the most important awards for young…
Congratulations, Sukh Singh, on receiving an honorable mention in the 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)!
Excellent work!
Congratulations, Claudia Turro, on becoming one of the newest elected members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 120 members and…
Congratulations, Christo Sevov, on being selected for a 2024 ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the Advancement of Catalytic Science.
The annual ACS Catalysis Lectureship for the…
Congratulations, Davita Watkins, for receiving the 2024 Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award from Iota Sigma Pi, National Honor Society for Women in Chemistry award!
The award is given…
Congratulations, Christine Thomas, for receiving the Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership award!
Fantastic accomplishment!
Congratulations, Dehua Pei, on receiving the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor award!
Well-deserved accomplishment!
Please join me in congratulating Rebecca Ricciardo who is the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award.
Congratulations Rebecca!…
Congratulations to Kotaro Nakanishi who is the recipient of the 2024 Early Career Innovator of the Year Award!! Well-deserved accomplishment!
Congratulations, Jennifer Hambach, recipient of the 2024 OSU Distinguished Staff Award!
The Distinguished Staff Award is the highest honor bestowed upon staff at the university since its…
Please join me in congratulating Steffen Lindert who is the recipient of the 2023-24 ACS Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award!
Congratulations, Steffen!
Please join me in congratulating Daniel Turner, who was selected as the winner of the 2023 Robert C. Palmer Outstanding Staff Award!
Daniel is a Student Learning Specialist in the…
Congratulations to Montgomery Gray (Herbert Group) and Deben Shoup (Schultz Group) for being chosen as two of the 2023-24 Presidential Fellowship Recipients!
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Congratulations Venkat Gopalan, Walter Zahurancik, Lien Lai, and Vaishnavi Sidharthan on your publication in Nature Chemistry!
Click here to read the article.
Please join me in congratulating the recipients of the 2023 Dutta CBC Staff Awards:
Gerry Raimann
Rick Spinney
Sophie White
Walter Williams
All…
Congratulations, Dr. Dennis Liotta on being one of the five recipients of the "Faces of American Innovation" Report Celebrates People Behind Life-Changing Inventions Fostered by the Bayh-Dole Act…
Congratulations, Radha Pyati who has been named next chancellor and dean of Penn State Berks!
Dr. Pyati graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in chemistry in 1990.
OSU's Alumnus, Max Arguilla, has been featured in C&EN's 2023 Talented 12.
To read more, click here.
Congratulations, Prof. RajanBabu on being the editor's top choice for your Organic Reactions Chapter!
To learn more, click here.
To read Prof. RajanBabus' Ring-Opening Reactions…
Student Life Disability Services has awarded the 2023 Dick Maxwell Award to Holly Wheaton, advisor and undergraduate program specialist, Undergraduate Studies Office in the Department of Chemistry…
Congratulations, Dr. Jean Cui & Dr. Peter Li on receiving the Committee of 100 Circle of Excellence Award for Humanity in Science & Technology!
To read more, click here.
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Congratulations, Dr. Christo Sevov on receiving a 2023 Camille & Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award!
To read more, click here.
Congratulations, Dr. Özlem Doğan Ekici on receiving the 2023 OSU Newark Faculty Award for Mentoring Undergraduate Research (Tenured Category)!
Congratulations, Dr. Özlem Doğan Ekici on receiving the 2023 OSU Newark Teaching Excellence Award (Tenured Category)!
The Brown Science Foundation announced seven recipients of the annual Brown Investigator Award. The award recognizes curiosity-driven basic research in chemistry and physics and supports…
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced the election of its new members for 2023, which includes two faculty members from The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences: …
CONGRATULATIONS to Josh Queener for being a recipient of the Spring 2023 John S. Swenton Award for Outstanding Teaching!
Josh has served as a GTA for…
CONGRATULATIONS to Paige Bowling for being a recipient of the Spring 2023 John S. Swenton Award for Outstanding Teaching!
Paige has gone above and beyond…
Congratulations, Dipshi Singh for having your research highlighted in SYNFACTS!
Dipshi also won a spot on the Annual Graduate Research Symposium organized by the American Chemical Society!…
Congratulations, Dipshi Singh for having your research highlighted in SYNFACTS!
Dipshi also won a spot on the Annual Graduate Research Symposium organized by the American Chemical Society!…
Congratulations, OSU Chemistry Department on being ranked #20 by News & World Report Rankings 2023!
Amazing work, and a HUGE round of applause to our professors, alumni, staff, & students!…
Congratulations, OSU Analytical Chemistry Department on being ranked #3 by News & World Report Rankings!
Amazing work, and a HUGE round of applause to our professors, alumni, staff, &…
Congratulations, Walter Williams on winning the University Distinguished Staff Award!
We are lucky to have you, Walter!
Congratulations, Dr. Turro on your election into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
This is well-deserved!
To learn more, click here.
Tatyana Woodall's press release entitled, "newly revealed properties of melanin ‘ingredient’ could advance bioelectronics," has been published and can be read in its entirety here.
Congrats…
Congratulations, Kohler Group on your paper on melanin being published in Nature Chemistry!
To learn more click here.
Nicole North Wins 2nd Prize At The AI For Energy Conference, Saudia Arabia. Congratulations, Nicole!
Congratulations, Ted Clark! He is the recipient of the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer.
To learn more about the award click here.
Congratulations, Dr. Nodie Washington for being recognized as one of the 2023 Arts and Sciences Alumni Award honorees! She is the first Black woman to receive a PhD in Chemistry from our…
Three new award winners in CBC!
Ted Clark: CTP Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award
Marcos Sotomayor: Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award
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Dr. Philip Grandinetti’s has been selected as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2023-2024 for Italy!
Fulbright Scholar Awards are prestigious and competitive fellowships that provide…
Dehua Pei, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named a Senior Member by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). This award recognizes academic inventors who are…
The Ohio State University has been awarded a $3,876,363 grant from the Department of Energy Electric Vehicles for American Low-Carbon Living (EVs4ALL) program. The university is one of 12 teams…
Please join me in congratulating Alex Grooms (Badu-Tawiah group) on receiving the Lubrizol Foundation Fellowship to support his graduate studies on the development of new methods in mass…
Please click here to see exciting developments from the company that Dehua started: Entrada Therapeutics. Congratulations Dehua!
Congrats, Dmitri, on your work getting featured!
To read more about Dmitri's study, click here.
A team with Claudia Turro as a co-investigator was awarded one of the President’s Research Excellence Catalyst grants!
Pathways for the Hydrogen Economy to Enhance Sustainability…
Congratulations to Walter Williams, Carol Barnes, Dan Conroy, and Tanya Whitmer who received the Staff Recognition Award for their outstanding contributions during the pandemic!
Their…
Congratulations, Alex Sokolov for receiving the prestigious OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in Computational Chemistry!
The award is presented by the Computers in Chemistry…
"Abraham Badu-Tawiah, a chemistry professor at Ohio State, created the X-Ed foundation to provide schools in Ghana with basic resources."
Your generosity and love for young students is…
Ohio State receives $2.5M grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute to advance STEM education!
Congratulations to Susan Olesik, Dean of Natural and Mathematical Sciences in the College of…
Congratulations, Davita Watkins, Vladislav Belyy, and Damien Wilburn on being named the recipients of the ERIK Education Startup Award!
Congratulations, Esther Takeuchi, a PhD alum of the department and current distinguished faculty member for receiving the National Academy of Sciences Award in Chemical Sciences!
To read…
It is with the deepest regret that our department acknowledges the passing of alumnus, Savelas Rabb. Savelas received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry at The Ohio State University in…
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"Glutathione is especially useful as it aids in regulating metals like iron, which is used by red blood cells to make hemoglobin, a protein needed to help carry oxygen…
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 Dutta CBC Staff Awards:
Betsy Foran
Irene George
Myung (MJ) Han
Zachary Reaver
These awards - distributed annually to…
Congratulations once again Dr. Vicki Wysocki, the recipient of the prestigious 2022 Thompson Medal Award from the Mass Spectrometry Foundation.
The Thomson Medal Award is named after Sir J…
Congratulations to Ohio Eminent Scholar Vicki Wysocki who was named Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry – the first female in this role! Read more…
Congratulations to Dr. Devin Swiner who was elected a member-at-large of the NOBCChE Board of Directors! To learn more about Dr. Swiner's election click here.
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Baker who was named the 2022 Coblentz Award recipient by the Coblentz Society! This award recognizes an outstanding young molecular spectroscopist under the age of 40…
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Shafaat and co-authors on their recent PNAS publication! Their work developed an artificial protein that could offer new insights into chemical evolution on early…
Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Goldberger who has been named a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Fellow by the Humboldt Foundation! This prestigious fellowship entitles him to pursue new…
Dehua Pei, Charles H. Kimberly Professor in Chemistry, received Accelerator Award funding for his project “Cell-Permeable Proteins for Sustainable Organic Agriculture'' from the…
Congratulations to Dr. Tom Magliery, who received the 2022 Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award from the Office of Human Resources! Dr. Magliery was surprised with the award during a recent…
Dr. Rafael Bruschweiler was selected by the students in the OSU Biophysics Program as the winner of the Elizabeth L. Goss Award. This award is presented to a faculty member in…
Dennis Liotta completed his postdoctoral work under Professor Leo Paquette. Liotta's most current research on a covid-19 medication has been featured in The College of Arts and Sciences News!
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Congratulations to Joseph Holbrook, who was named the Spring 2022 recipient of the department's John S. Swenton Award for Outstanding Teaching!
Joe received this award to…
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Davita L. Watkins will join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry as an Associate Professor to further expand our organic and polymer…
Dr. Amanda Hummon has received the 2020-2021 ASC Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award from the College of Arts and Sciences! The Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes outstanding…
Congratulations to Dr. Christo Sevov and his group members, Taylor Hamby and Matthew Lalama! Their paper on the selective alkyl-aryl coupling, where the reactivity of a nickel catalyst can be…
Congratulations to Jeremiah Stevens (Thomas lab), who received the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Award for Teaching Excellence! Jeremiah was presented with the award during a…
Congratulations to Senior Lecturer, Rebecca Ricciardo who received the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer! This award honors lecturers for their teaching excellence. Rebecca…
Congratulations to Professor T. V. (Babu) Rajanbabu and colleagues on the recent publication featured in ACS Catalyst Publications!
For the full publication: https://pubs.acs.org…
Congratulations to Madison Tuttle who received the 2022 Next Generation Innovator of the Year Award from OSU's Office of Research!
Tuttle was recognized for her innovation in the…
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Baker, who received the 2021-2022 Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award from the College of Arts and Sciences!
The Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award recognizes…
Congratulations to Montgomery Gray (graduate student in the Herbert lab) on being awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2022 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)…
Congratulations to Associate Professor, Robert Baker on being awarded the 2022-2023 Fulbright John Von Neumann Distinguished Award in STEM to Hungary to advance the study of ultrafast, high…