News
We mourn the loss of Dr. Leo A. Paquette
We mourn the loss of Dr. Leo A. Paquette, a Professor Emeritus of Organic Chemistry earned after joining the department in 1963. Dr. Paquette was best known for achieving the first total synthesis…
Ohio State, University of Washington scientists pave way for protein nanomechanics
While the Ohio State Buckeyes and Washington Huskies prepared to butt heads in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1, researchers at the two universities collaborated to create proteins that zip together in…
Technology developed in Dehua Pei's lab leads to outstanding commercialization deal
Please join the department in congratulating Dehua on the success of his efforts to commercialize key cyclic peptides for intracellular delivery of proteins. Chris Paschall of TCO states,…
Lindert Receives ACS OpenEye Award
Congratulations to Dr. Steffen Lindert who was just informed that he is the winner of the American Chemical Society OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award for Spring 2019! This highly…
Lauren Loftus Awarded Presidential Fellowship
Congratulations to graduate student Lauren Loftus for being awarded a Presidential Fellowship in the Autumn 2018 competition! The Presidential Fellowship is the highest award given by the…
OSU CBC Participates in YES Days
On October 25th and 26th, the OSU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry once again participated in Youth Engineering and Science (YES) Days, an event that exposes over 800 middle school…
A Nagib Lab study gets published in Science!
Congratulations to David Nagib and lab members Lu Wang, Jeremy M. Lear, Sean M. Rafferty, and Stacy C. Fosu for getting published in the October 12th issue of Science. This study offers a new…
Celeste Building is Due for an Upgrade!
The Celeste Lab, known for supporting approximately 75,000 credit hours per year, will be seeing many upgrades in the near future. Renovations of the 1986 building are planned to begin around this…
The Badjic lab's 'molecular baskets' are capturing attention!
An article just published in Ohio State News discusses the Badjic lab's development of new particles called "molecular baskets". These baskets have been shown to find simulated nerve agents and…