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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…
Two distinguished alum with connections to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry have recently been honored and featured by The Ohio State University.
Ratmir Timashev is a 1996 alum…
Professor Jon Parquette's work and collaboration has recently been noticed by OSU News! Parquette is credited for developing a molecule that other scientists were able to use to bind to insulin's…
Congratulations to Madison Tuttle, Ph.D. candidate of The Zhang Research Group. She is being honored as one of OSU's Next Generation Innovator of the Year finalists!
"The Next Generation…
Vicki Wysocki, Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar is one of 3 finalists being recognized for their work!
"The Innovator of the Year award recognizes established Ohio State…
It is a pleasure to announce that CBC is welcoming two new faculty members! We are welcoming Davita Watkins and Vladislav Belyy.
Davita is an organic chemist and will…
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is thrilled to share a new opportunity to help eliminate undergraduate student debt for future generations of college students. The Scarlet & Gray…
Theodore (Ted) Kuwana, PhD
Aug 3, 1931–Jan 1, 2022
Dr. Ted Kuwana, 90, of Seattle, WA, died at Northwest Hospital after several weeks of pneumonia. He was the founding father of a…
Congratulations to Professor Heather Allen, named the 2022 Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics, a prestigious national award given by the American Chemical Society. Most (if not all) of the…
Betty Miller, wife of the late alumnus Harold "Hal" Miller, has made a transformative gift in honor of her husband to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
“It is…
Congratulations to Josh Goldberger for being named part of the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Goldberger has been recognized for…
We are excited to announce we have been chosen to be one of 14 institutions to host Beckman Scholars. Over the coming 3 years, 2 deserving undergraduates will be chosen per year to participate in…
Congratulations to Xinyao Xiang (Bruschweiler group) and Andy Ochs (Goldbeger group) on being awarded Presidential Fellowships…
Congratulations to Philip Grandinetti who is the recipient of the 2022 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance.
Each year, the Eastern…
Congratulations to PhD student Devin Swiner (Badu-Tawiah group) for being selected as the 2020 Next Generation Innovator of the Year by the OSU Office of Research…
Professor Dehua Pei, the Charles H. Kimberly Professor and Ph.D. student, Ashweta Sahni have “identified the ways in which proteins cross a cell membrane, a finding that could create a scientific…
The President's Research Excellence Catalyst Grant Program most recent round of funding has been geared toward cross and interdisciplinary groups.
Congratulations to Anne Co who led a…
Congratulations to Amanda Hummon, Susan Olesik, and Vicki Wysocki for making the 2021 Analytical Scientist Power List for a second year in a row! For the full list and each individiual's feature…
Congratulations to Joy Rutherford, a Ph.D. student in the Nagib lab on winning the Madam C.J. Walker Scholarship, an award given by the Society of Cosmetic Chemists and sponsored by Mary Kay Inc…
Congratulations to Chemistry Ph.D. student, Anna Poptic (Shiyu Zhang lab), for being awarded a Pelotonia Fellowship for her project “Employing Novel Synthetic Models of Enzymatic Diiron Sites to…
Congratulations to Professor Heather Allen, named the 2022 Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics, a prestigious national award given by the American Chemical Society. Most (if not all) of the…
Congratulations to Dr. Rafael Bruschweiler on being part of a collaboration that was recently published in Nature.com titled "DEEP picker is a deep neural network for accurate deconvolution of…
Dr. Effie Kisgeropoulos, a 2020 graduate from Dr. Hannah Shafaat's laboratory was recently awarded the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investigator Award.
We are excited to congratulate Michael Scudder of the Goldberger Research Group for being awarded the Excellence in Safety Student Award by the Department of Environmental Health and Safety…
Congratulations to Yiying Wu, Christine Thomas (Wade), and Zac Schultz for being of the 19 projects awarded President’s Research Excellence (PRE) program seed grants.
Next-Generation Liquid…
Faculty of OSU Marion Campus are excited to announce a National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute for research in the role of chromatin remodeling factors in DNA double strand break…
Congratulations to Kyle Stachowski for winning inaugural CEMAS Micrograph Competition with the image submission below. Stachowski is a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in the Foster Lab Group. The CEMAS…
Congratulations to Raymond Twumasi, Ph.D. candidate working in Dr. David Nagib's lab for being awarded the 2021 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color. Twumasi was…
Congratulations to Nicole North of the Allen research group on receiving a Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship from NASA to support her…
Professor Josh Goldberger shows a new, more efficient way to allow thermoelectric power generators to create electrical power from waste heat.
For the entire story: https://news…
Congratulations to Dr Christo Sevov for being award a Department of Energy Early Career Award for mission critical research!
For more information: https://www.energy.gov/articles…
Congratulations to associate professor, Robert Baker on being given the 2021 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award!
"The Spectroscopy Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award…
Abraham Badu-Tawiah, was one of 21 researchers selected to participate in the first cohort for the Growing Research Opportunities (GRO) Academy. The GRO Academy, aimed at mid-career faculty, is…
Ayesha Seth was a 2020 participant in the India Gateway hosted Pre-Departure preparation session where she provided insightful advice and shared personal experiences with students from India.
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CONGRATULATIONS to our Spring 2021 recipients of the John S. Swenton Award for Outstanding Teaching: Chelsea Zoltowski and Joe Fernandez. Both of these graduate students have gone…
Professor Dehua Pei and collaborators shows Pei’s cell penetrating peptides can deliver antibodies into cells of living mice to treat tick-borne bacterial infection. The full article explains that…
Starting in 2022, the ACADAOS Outstanding Advisor Award has been renamed The Mary Bailey Outstanding Advisor Award. This is a well-deserved honor for Mary Bailey,…
Congratulations to associate professor, Abraham Badu-Tawiah for being named the 2021 Early Career Innovator of the Year!
For other 2021 award winners: https://research.osu.edu/news…
Undergraduate students taking general chemistry courses have expressed that the mentorship program has been a huge benefit to them during the hybrid style of the past year! Senior Lecturer, Dr…
Entrada Therapeutics just announced the successful completion of a $116 million Series B financing. Entrada is a privately-held biotechnology company dedicated to transforming the treatment of…
Zeovation, a company started by Emeritus Professor, Prabir Dutta has a product, Zeolite, that is being tested in SARS-CoV-2 decontamination. The study is being done with Texas Biomed in…
Vicki Wysocki, Ohio Eminent Scholar and director of the Campus Chemical Instrument Center, for a talk entitled “The Power, Potential and Payoff of University-Industry Collaborations across Ohio.”…
As a Latvian immigrant, during a time when women were not widely accepted in the fields of math and science Inara Brubaker excelled in her academics. She earned her BS from Ohio Northern…
The Ohio State University is one of many participating in the American Chemical Society's PhD bridge program. The program aims to increase the number of Black, Latino, and Indigenous students…
Congratulations to Associate Professor, Robert Baker for being named Deputy Director Of The Institute For Optical Science. He has been a member of the Institute since its inception in 2018 and is…
Congratulations to Assistant Professors, Alexander Sokolov and Casey Wade on each receiving a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation!
"The Faculty Early Career Development …
Congratulations to Associate Professor, Zac Schultz on being selected as the recipient of the 2021 Clara Craver Award presented by the Coblentz Society (http://www.coblentz.org/awards/the-craver…
Congratulations to PhD candidate Kevin Carter-Fenk of the Herbert Research Group for being awarded an Outstanding Graduate Student Award from ACS Division of Computers & Chemistry!
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Congratulations to David Nagib, Associate Professor, for being named a 2021 Arthur C. Cope Award winner presented by the American Chemical Society. Award winners are honored for their significant…
Newman Professor, Venkat Gopalan and colleagues were featured in OSU News for their work on biofuels. Their recently published work, "Copper oxide-based cathode for direct NADPH regeneration" was…
Congratulations to Associate Professor, Robert Baker on receiving the 2021 Emerging Leader in Atomic Spectroscopy Award, which is presented by Spectroscopy magazine. The award is normally…
Professor James Coe, the chief technology officer at IR Medtek is a professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry. IR Medtek, one of 22 startup companies selected to participate in the national…
Tiny filaments inside our inner ears help convert noises into electrical signals sent to our brains for processing. Now, scientists led by Marcos Sotomayor, associate professor of…
NSF awards Arts and Sciences startup $1 million to complete R&D on antimicrobial and antiviral agent
ZeoVation — an Ohio State startup co-founded by Prabir Dutta…
CBC was excited to see that 3 of the 10 papers featured in Nature Communications all have OSU connections. In addition to a paper out of Bern Kohler's lab, there is a paper by Professor Dongping…
Associate Professor, Dr. Ted Clark was awarded a Research and Implementation Grant via Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning. His proposal was titled Identifying Barriers to…
The Infectious Disease Institute at OSU interviewed associate professor, Dr. Dmitri Kudryashof on his work which is looking to add defensins to the body’s playbook against SARS-CoV-2. He is…
A special issue from Journal of Chemical Education was published regarding teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. While there are many worthwhile reads in the issue, we are especially proud that…
PhD Candidate, Devin Swiner and Assistant Professor Travis White have been quoted in an article for C&EN. Swiner, a cofounder of the #BlackinChem movement, part of the greater #BlackinSTEM…
Heather Allen, Dow Professor and Ohio State Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, researches molecular organization, ion pairing and hydration at…
PhD candidate, Devin Swiner of the Badu Research Group was featured in Chemistry World on her experience of being a Black chemist and #BlackinChem. Swiner discussed her unique experiences and…
PhD candidate, Devin Swiner of the Badu Research Group was quoted in a USA Today article featuring the black community in various STEM fields. Breaking barriers of expectations, as well as laying…
Congratulations to Professor Patrick Woodward, named in American Chemical Society's 2020 Class of Fellows! This award celebrates outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the…
OSU will join one of six other universities to participate in the American Chemical Society Bridge Program. The American Chemical Society Bridge Program (ACS-BP) is an effort to increase the…
Congratulations to Associate Professor, Dr. Josh Goldberger. He received the 2019-20 ASC Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award. This award is to recognize outstanding performance in all three areas…
Congratulations to Dr. Karin Musier-Forsyth who received (with Mike Ibba) the 2019-20 Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award! The Office of Human Resources and the Senate Diversity Committee annually…
Congratulations to Dr. Jon Parquette who is the recipient of the 2019-20 Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award! This award recognizes an Arts and Sciences professor who has…
Congratulations to Dr. Susan Olesik, one of three professors to be named distinguished University Professor for 2020! The distinction is the highest faculty honor at Ohio State and is given on a…
Susan Olesik, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was appointed dean for natural and mathematical sciences, effective July 1, 2020.
Mike Scudder (Goldberger group) and Kevin Carter-Fenk (Herbert group) on being awarded Presidential Fellowships in the Spring…
David Nagib, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been awarded the 2020 ACC Lilly Grant. This is an unsolicited award in support of Nagib’s…
CONGRATULATIONS to our Spring 2020 recipients of the John S. Swenton Award for Outstanding Teaching: Jeremiah Stevens and Greg Jameson. Both of these graduate students have gone…
Our own department chair, Claudia Turro, has been recognized with the 2020 Outstanding Alumni Award from the Michigan State University College of Natural Science. Congratulations Claudia and thank…
Congratulations to Robert Baker, an assistant professor in the areas of physical and analytical chemistry for being a recipient of the 2020 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award!
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Dmitri Kudryashov, an associate professor in CBC is one of six faculty across the university receiving funding towards COVID-19 research. He and his team are exploring if defensins are able to…
Congratulations to Venkat Gopalan who was selected by the College of Arts and Sciences Student Council to receive the 2019 – 2020 Outstanding Teaching Award. This award is particularly notable…
Ray Goodrich, a friend and alum of CBC is on the front lines of searching for a covid-19 vaccine. Goodrich is the executive director of the Infectious Disease Research Center (IDRC) at Colorado…
Congratulations to Alyson Paneque (Nagib lab) and Nicole North (Allen Lab) on being awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)…
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Baker who has been selected to receive the 2020 Journal of Physical Chemistry C Lectureship Award from the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical…
Please join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in congratulating Dr. Amanda Hummon for being selected as a 2020 Fulbright Scholar! She will spend Spring of 2021 as a Visiting Professor…
Check out the feature in the 2020 Molecular Systems Design and Engineering Emerging Investigators Issue here!
Former OSU undergraduate researcher Patrick Veres (B.S., 2005) earned his Ph.D. in Atmospheric-Analytical Chemistry from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2011, and has recently discovered a…
On Feb 14, 2020 the S.S. Robert H. Lawrence, named for the first African American astronaut, headed to the International Space Station. Major Robert H. Lawrence Jr. earned his doctorate in…
Congratulations to Dr. John Herbert who is the recipient of the 2020 Edward W. Morley Award from the Cleveland Section of the American Chemical Society! This prestigious award was established in…
Congratulations to Dr. Abraham Badu-Tawiah and Dr. Steffen Lindert who were recently named 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows! This early-career scholarship represents the most promising…
Congratulations to Dr. Susan Olesik for being awarded the 2020 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for outstanding achievements in the field of analytical chemistry! This is the top award given by…
Professor Claudia Turro and colleagues were recognized recently in Chemical & Engineering News for their development of a rhodium catalyst that harvests light and uses its energy to create…
Heather Allen was quoted in a recent article in Knowable Magazine for her work in understanding oceanic iron and climate change.
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Congratulations to Associate Professor, Zac Schultz on being named a 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow. Each year, fellows are elected by their peers who make up the…
Research by chemistry professor Dr. Philip Grandinetti has been featured in OnCampus News, the Ohio State University News website! Read the full article here!
Congratulations to Justin Seffernick (Lindert group), Brandon Neel (Sotomayor group) and Mahesh Parsutkar (RajanBabu group), who have been awarded the Presidential Fellowship as part of the Autumn…
Each year, the Analytical Scientist publishes the Power List of the top 100 analytical chemists. Our department has three of the top 100 in the list (Vicki Wysocki, Susan Olesik,…
R. B. Sunoj, a postdoctoral alum of Christopher Hadad was awarded the 2019 Shanti
Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in the area of Chemical Science by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research …
More than $27 million from the National Science Foundation will fund two new facilities here in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry! Lead PIs include Rafael Bruschweiler and Robert Baker…
Congratulations to Dr. Yiying Wu who recently received the Akron Section Award from the American Chemical Society! This award honors a scientist or engineer working in any branch of chemistry who…
Congratulations to Dr. T. V. (Babu) RajanBabu who has been awarded the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society! The Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards were established in 1984…
Congratulations to Dr. Shiyu Zhang for being awarded his first National Science Foundation grant! This grant will support Dr. Zhang’s project titled “Applying rules of life to catalysis:…
Please join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in congratulating Dr. Robert Baker for being selected as a Young Innovator in NanoEnergy! These “45 under 45” were selected by peer review…
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Shafaat, whose recent work has been selected for the 2019 Journal of the American Chemical Society Young Investigators Virtual Issue. Read the virtual issue here.
Chemistry alumna of 1934 Margaret Brennecke worked at NASA on the mighty Saturn rockets that made up the backbone of the space age, including the rocket that brought humans to the…
Professor Christopher Jaroniec, Vice Chair for Research and Administration in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been named Associate Dean for Research and Creative Inquiry for the…
Congratulations to Amanda Hummon who has been selected as a PECASE Scholar! Dr. Hummon was nominated for the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers three years ago while at…
Dr. Claudia Turro, Dow Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was named chair of the department, effective July 1, 2019.
Congratulations to Dr. Abraham Badu-Tawiah for being awarded his first National Science Foundation grant! This grant will support Dr. Badu-Tawiah’s project titled “High-Performance Panoptic Mass…
Congratulations to chemistry alumnus Dennis Liotta (1974-76) for receiving the 2019 Heroes of Global Health Award by the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce in recognition of his dedication and…
The department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Ohio State University is one of six universities selected to participate in the American Chemical Society's Bridge Program. This new initiative…
Congratulations to Dr. Abraham Badu-Tawiah for being awarded the NIH R01 Award. This NIH R01 grant will provide him with funding to complete a project, publish results, and begin work on a new…
Congratulations to OSBP graduate student Mike Ryan-Simkins, of the Magliery research group, for being awarded the 2019 Center for Life Sciences Education Outstanding TA Award. Pictured is Mike…
Congratulations to Wesley Thio who was recently awarded OSU’s Next Generation Innovator of the Year Award! This award is presented each year by the Office of Research and the Corporate Engagement…
Congratulations to CBC graduate students Lisa Nguyen, of the Gustafson research group, and Nathan Howell, of the Jackman research group, for being two of the ten students awarded this year’s…
Congratulations to graduate student Somnath Biswas for being awarded a Presidential Fellowship in the Spring 2019 competition! The Presidential Fellowship is the highest award given by the…
Congratulations to Tim Henthorne for being awarded the Dana Sampson Award of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society! The award is presented by the ASGS each year for the best Lamp Shop Hint…
Congratulations to Dr. Özlem Doğan Ekici for being selected to receive the Newark Campus Scholarly Accomplishment Award for 2019! The award recognizes two leading scholars of the faculty who have…
Congratulations to chemistry student Erin Panczyk and biochemistry student John Vu for being named to the Sesquicentennial Student Scholar Leadership Program! The 150 students chosen for this…
Dehua Pei, Charles H. Kimberly Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry, is co…
Congratulations to graduate student Raymond Twumasi for receiving a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation! The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recognizes outstanding…
Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher Kelly Karch of the Wysocki Research Group for being one of the ten researchers named to OSU’s 2019 cohort of President’s Postdoctoral Scholars. Kelly…
Congratulations to graduate student Kevin Fenk of the Herbert Research Group who has recently been awarded a U.S. Department of Energy Graduate Fellowship! Kevin is receiving this fellowship for…
Congratulations to Dr. Claudia Turro who will receive the 2018-2019 Harlan Hatcher Arts and Sciences Distinguished Faculty Award! This award recognizes an Arts and Sciences professor who has an…
Undergraduate student, Montgomery Gray receives ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship for Summer 2019! Gray will spend his summer working in T. V. (Babu)…
A team of Ohio State researchers recently discovered a new material that simplifies how electronics use electrons. An electron has a negative charge, while a hole — or the absence of an electron —…
Postdoc in the Kohler Lab group, Dr. Christopher Grieco was awarded a 2019 ACS Physical Division Young Investigator Award. He will give his award talk in a symposium at the Fall 2019 National ACS…
CBC graduate students had a clean sweep of both oral and poster presentations in this year’s Haye’s Forum for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences portion of the competition.
For a full…
Congratulations to Dr. Dehua Pei who was just informed that his startup company, Entrada Therapeutics, was selected to represent the Ohio State University as one of the twenty companies being…
Congratulations to Kimberly Carter of the Allen Research Group as she will be receiving the Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award from the Office of Student Academic…
Congratulations to our 2019 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum Awardees!
Montgomery Gray and Michael Hines (Chem Eng major) mentored by RajanBabu and Nicholas Brunelli received 1st place…
David Nagib has recently been awarded a 2019 Sloan Research Fellowship. This early-career scholarship represents the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and…
Ray Goodrich, undergraduate alumnus, now executive director of the Infectious Disease Research Center at Colorado State University was awarded the Order of Military Medical Merit for his…
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…
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…
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, “We…
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…
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 Graduate…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Congratulations to the Dow Poster Session winners and Seminar Presenters! The poster session, sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company, took place at this year’s William Lloyd Evans Memorial Lectures…
Congratulations to Dr. Casey Wade for being awarded one of the 2018 NASA Early Career Research Grants for Space Technology! Dr. Wade is one of four recipients in the category of Metal Organic…
As an OSU Chemistry and Biochemistry alumnus, Associate Professor Zac Schultz ‘00 was excited to bring his research program to CBC, and to indulge in the Columbus community, which has changed…
Please join us in congratulating Hannah Shafaat, who just found out that she is the recipient of the Ed Stiefel Young Investigator Award! This award, given to young investigators in the…
CBC Graduate Student, Jamey Bower (Zhang Group), spent two summers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researching which led to producing a peer-reviewd journal article that was…
Congratulations to CBC's Venkat Gopalan, Steffen Lindert, and Edward J. Berhman and their co-investigators, Brian M. Ahmer and Charles E. Bell on their NIH grant awarded to them yesterday! They…
Congratulations to Dr. Vicki Wysocki and the Campus Chemical Instrument Center (CCIC) for receiving a $6.8 million dollar NIH grant for 5 years! Proposed was a Resource for Native Mass…
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Shafaat for receiving an NIH R35 Award, the MIRA for New Investigators! More information to come...
Congratulations to CBC Graduate Student, Neng Xiao (Wu Group), for receiving a poster award from the Beyond Li-ion XI Symposium! Great job, Neng!
Congratulations to Dr. Vicki Wysocki on joining the Executive Council for The Protein Society!
The Protein Society is governed by elected officers and an Executive Council. The officers are…
Congratulations to Dr. T.V. (Babu) RajanBabu and post doc, Vinayak Pagar, for their recent Science article.
Cyclobutanes sourced right from ethyleneEthylene is one of the…
Congratulations to our very own, Dr. Russell Pitzer on the honor of having the new OSC system named after him! You can read more about Dr. Pitzer and his involvement here...
We are sad to announce that on of our undergraduate alumni, John Xu, who went on to OSU medical school passed away suddenly on June 30th. His spouse, Samantha Brown-Xu, is also a Ph.D. alumni who…
Congratulations to Dr. Christo Sevov and Dr. Shiyu Zhang for being awarded ACS-PRF grants! The Petroleum Research Fund supports research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels a nonprofit…
CBC alum, Dr. Everett N. Heistand, passed away on May 13, 2018. His family shared the sad news with us and wanted to pass on his obituary to the OSU Chemistry community. If you have any fond…
Congratulations to Dr. Shiyu Zhang for receiving the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities! The ORAU is a collaboration of many major Ph.D.-granting…
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Shafaat and the members of her research group, and to Dr. Katie Moga for being awarded the 2018 Excellence in Safety Award from the University Laboratory Safety…
Congratulations to undergraduate Emily Rodriguez on receiving the American Chemical Society Scholar Award! The ACS Scholars Program awards renewable scholarships to underrepresented minority…
Congratulations to Dr. Ozlem Dogan Ekici on receiving the Technology Commercialization Office Accelerator Award grant of $100,000! This award program proves OSU researches up to $100,000 to…
Congratulations to Dr. T.V. Rajanbabu on being selected as a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry! This title serves to honor full professor…
Congratulations to graduate students Deidre Damon and Ethan Wappes for being awarded Presidential Fellowships in the Spring 2018 competition! The Presidential Fellowship is the highest award given…
Congratulations to CBC Faculty member, Dr. Ryan Yoder, on receiving the 2018 Marion Campus Teaching Award, presented to him at the 47th Annual Academic Recognition Ceremony. Each year this award…
The love of learning was the theme of Tim Barckholtz’s (CBC '98 alum) ever since he was a young boy. Ever so curious about what “stuff” was made of, it wasn’t until his love for science was…
Congratulations to Dr. Dehua Pei who has just been awarded the 2018 Columbus Section Award from the American Chemical Society! This award is given every two years to a professor in a chemistry…
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Shafaat and the members of her research group, and to Dr. Katie Moga for being awarded the 2018 Excellence in Safety Award from the University Laboratory Safety…
Congratulations to Dr. Robert Baker whose article describing his group's work developing XUV reflection spectroscopy of surfaces was featured on the Royal Society of Chemistry's ChemComm! Way to…
Congratulations to Dr. Sotomayor who lead this HFSP funded work along with Vinny Linch (University of Chicago) and Felix Rico (Marseille)! The Human Frontier Science Program is an international…
Originally from Uniontown, Ohio, Austin Raper earned his Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry from the University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio. Austin ultimately chose Ohio State to…
CBC's Prep Lab, lead by Angie Miller, presented a Chemistry Show last weekend as part of OSU's Kids & Sibs Weekend. Hopefully she recruited some future OSU chemists! Check out the video below!
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Congratulations to Dr. Anne Co for being awarded an Accelerator Award from the university’s Corporate Engagement Office! The Accelerator Awards provide funding to further develop and validate…
Compliments and congratulations to both CBC Graduate Students, Sierra Jackson and Devin Swiner, who received the College of Arts and Sciences 2017-2018 Susan M. Hartmann Mentoring and Leadership…
Please join us in congratulating Jane Jackman and Venkat Gopalan who are both recipients of the 2017-2018 Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award!
The Diversity Enhancement Faculty Award…
Congratulations to Dr. Anne Co and Dr. Umit Ozkan (Chem Eng) on receiving the 2018 Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award from the College of Engineering for the second time…
Congratulations to the many graduate students who presented at the 32nd Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum on March 2nd. The Hayes Forum showcases the research being conducted by Ohio State…
CONGRATULATIONS to our very own, Professor Dehua Pei on receiving the OSU 2018 Innovator of the Year Award! If you missed the State of Research Address, you can watch it (and Dehua's award…
CBC graduate student, Debadrita Modak, recently received a Student Research Achievement Award (SRAA) at the 62nd Biophysical Society meeting for her poster presentation! Debadrita also received an…
CBC Alum, Ashley Bartman Watson '12, was featured in one of the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Spotlights. Since our spotlight on Ashley, she received her JD from OSU in 2017! Read more about…
Congratulations to Dr. Zucai Suo and students, Austin Raper and Anthony Stephenson on two of their papers being published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS)! In their first…
Each year, the Sphinx and Mortar Board senior honoaries provide an opportunity for the member of the society to recognize one faculty or staff member who has had a significant impact on their…
Congratulations to CBC Alum Rob Worman (BS, Chemistry, '95) on his 6 streak win on Jeopardy this week! His streak ended last evening and he took home $134,000! Read more here...
Congratulations to Dr. Susan Olesik and the entire Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry for receiving the first ever Exemplary Mentoring Program Award from The Women’s Place! Only two of these…
Dr. Jane Jackman and Dr. Venkat Gopalan are featured in The New Face of STEM Research: Diverse Students, Shared Experiences by the College of Arts and Sciences. Both were involved in establishing…
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Shafaat who has just been informed that she will receive a 2018 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship! This award winners were announced in the February 15th issue of…
Congratulations to Dr. T.V. Rajanbabu who was just notified that he will be the 2018 Crano Memorial Lecturer. This award is given out by the Akron Section of the American Chemical Society. This…
We are happy to share that Assistant Professor Abraham Badu-Tawiah is the most recent recipient of the Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist. The award is given…
Congratulations to Dr. Sotomayor on receiving the 2018 Geraldine Dietz Fox Young Investigator Award for his remarkable research contributions and potential in the area of mechanotransduction in…
Congratulations to Dr. Zucai Suo and graduate student Walter Zahurancik for their recent article published in Nature through the international journal of science! This article was in…
CBC is on fire! Congratulations to the Dr. Bern Kohler and Group on making the 2017 Hot Articles Collection from Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics journal! Their paper is entitled:
Congratulations to Dr. Heather Allen and students Bethany Wellen Rudd (GRAD), and Evan Lach (UG) on their work that was published in the 2017 Hot Articles Collection from Physical Chemistry…
Dr. Prabir Dutta was mentioned in President Drake's State of the University address! You can hear his statement on Dutta at the 9:38 mark!
Well done, Dr. Dutta!
Congratulations to Steffen Lindert who has just been awarded the NIH R01 Award AND his NSF CAREER proposal was funded!
This NIH R01 grant will provide him with funding to…
Congratulations to Dr. Psaras McGrier who was just informed he has been awarded the 2018 ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award!
This award is given to investigators who have excelled in…
Congratulations to Dr. Jovica Badjic! His research was featured in this week's Chemical & Engineering News - a definite slam dunk!
Dr. Stoltzfus, one of CBC's senior lectures, is flipping our undergraduate classrooms. Recipient of OSU's Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer in 2013, Stoltzfus challenges his…
Congratulations to Professor Prabir Dutta who will be inducted as a fellow into the National Academy of Inventors! Dr. Dutta will be inducted into the NAI in April 2018. We are overjoyed and…
Congratulations to Craig Forsyth and the Forsyth Group for being featured in a recent publication by Chemical and Engineering News! The research group received recognition for their work on the…
CBC General Chemistry Labs were given the opportunity to showcase our labs and safety precautions we use in a more engaging way for students. We take safety and protection seriously in our…
Earlier this month, CBC hosted a Breakfast of Science Champions event, which gives Columbus City School students the opportunity to explore science, math, and engineering here at OSU! We hosted 94…
Chemistry and Biochemistry Alum, Tim Barckholtz '98, appeared on the ExxonMobil commercial during the Ohio State/Michigan game this past Saturday. Barckholtz and his team at ExxonMobil, partnered…
Congratulations to William Kender and Tyler Whittemore for receiving Presidential Fellowships in the Autumn 2017 competition. The Presidential Fellowship is the highest award given by the Graduate…
Congratulations to CBC alum, Sibrina Collins '00, on writing a chapter in the second volume of Diversity in the Scientific Community (ACS Symposium Series). Sibrina received her Master of…
Teaching Assistant Adam Bercz was awarded the Pasteur Foundation Summer Internship! The prestigious internship, granted to only five students, provides U.S. undergraduate students the opportunity…
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry’s Shafaat Group recently hosted the 2017 Ohio Inorganic Weekend. The conference included a poster session on Friday, November 3rd, featuring over 100…
Congratulations to our very own, Professor Bern Kohler, on receiving the 2017 Inter-American Photochemical Society Award in Photochemistry! This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the…
Check out more photos from CBC's Undergraduate Pumpkin Carving Contest this week! We even found a spooky (snapchat) ghost - enjoy! P.s. subscribe to the CBC Undergrad Blog!
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Abraham Badu-Tawiah on receiving the 2017 Eli Lilly Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry. Well deserved, Dr. Badu-Tawiah!
The Ohio State University Department of Chemistry has moved up in the most recent NSF ranking of research funding of the nation’s universities. The department increased in chemistry research…
Congratulations to our very own, Dr. Susan Olesik, Professor and Chair, on making The Analytical Scientist Power List 2017! Want to know a little more about her? Click on her picture here!
An article by Dr. Heather Allen in collaboration with graduate research assistant Bethany Wellen, and student assistant Evan Lach, is featured in the October 21st issue of the Physical Chemistry…
Jessica Flynn grew up outside the small, rural town of Gnadenhutten, Ohio, but was always curious about the world beyond her community. She thinks that for this reason, The Ohio State University’s…
Congratulations to CBC Alumni, Nate Wesley, on receiving the 2017 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research! Nate and Professor Jimmy Cowan, who nominated Nate, will…
Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Jaroniec for being awarded the 2017 American Chemical Society Akron Section Award! Dr. Jaroniec will be presented this award at the Akron Section ACS meeting in…
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Shafaat on her work being highlighted in the most recent virtual issue of the Journal of The American Chemical Society! Read Hannah's article here.
Nick Uhas grew up twenty minutes from OSU in Hilliard, Ohio. The Ohio State University has been a part of his life for years as both of his parents and brothers also attended. Additionally, Nick…
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry would like to congratulate Dr. Claudia Turro for being awarded the 2017 Mentor on the Map Award from The National Organization for the Professional…
Congratulations to the following undergraduate students and their advisors for presenting their research in the fields of chemistry and biochemistry at the 11th Annual Fall Undergraduate Research…
Vicki Wysocki and postdoc, Florian Busch, along with researchers in Germany have recently discovered an overlooked part of protein molecules that could be key to how proteins interact with each…
Congratulations to CBC graduate student, Walter Zahurancik, for being awarded the Graduate School's Louise B. Vetter Award, which is sponsored by the Ohio State chapter of the Honor Society of Phi…
Congratulations to Matthew Platz, Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry Emeritus of The Ohio State University, and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the University of Hawaii Hilo…
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry would like to congratulate Emeritus Professor, Dr. Edward Behrman, on being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Royal Society of…
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Shafaat on receiving the 2017 DOE Early Career Award! This is a funding opportunity for researchers in universities and DOE national laboratories which supports the…
Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Jaroniec on receiving his field's top prize for young investigators, the Varian Young Investigator Award in Magnetic Resonance. He was awarded this at the…
Read more about Sydney's trip to Germany this sumer on the CBC Undergraduate Blog!
An article collaborated by Dr. Barbara Wyslouzil and graduate research assistant, Andrew Amaya - among many others, was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Congratulations on…
Dr. Ozlem Dogan Ekici, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the OSU Newark campus, and her students are conducting drug discovery research which could extend or save the lives of…
Congratulations to Kotaro Nakanishi on receiving his first NIH R01 grant! This grant is designed to help support health-related research and development. Kotaro's will receive a $196,250 grant for…
Congratulations to CBC Alum, Perry Allen Frey, for receiving the Who's Who Lifetime Achievement Award! This award recognizes individuals that have achieved greatness in their industry and have…
Dr. Anne Co spent some time recently answering a question from a young scientist, "Why is car exhaust bad for the planet?". On a podcast, brainson, Co answers the question and describes how…
Although classes are out and things around campus may be a bit more relaxed, it is always a good time to brush up on our lab safety! This month we hope you will join us in congratulating Dr…
Congratulations to the McGrier group on their work being featured on the front cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017 Emerging Investigators issue! The cover image was…
We would like to extend a warm congratulations to our very own Dr. Badu-Tawiah who has recently named as one of the 2017 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award recipients. This…
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry would like to express its congratulations to our very own Professor Heather C. Allen, who was named as the 2017 Saddleback College Alumna of the Year!…
Dr. Dian He, who received his PhD in Chemistry from The Ohio State University in 2008, is originally from China and has been interested in Chemsitry from a young age. In middle school, when Dr. He…
Join us in expressing a warm congratulations to our own Dr. Vicki Wysocki for receiving the 2017 Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry! This…
Madhav Chavan, Pratham Co-Founder and President, obtained his PhD in Chemistry from OSU then went onto serve as a faculty member at the University of Houston. Chavan then decided to return to…
Better late than never! CBC's student run group, Chem TALKS, presented the 2017 Mack Lecture in March. Professor David MacMillan, of Princeton, presented lectures, met with students, and even…
Summer break? Not yet, says the Demo Lab! They spent Wednesday at the Metro School giving demo presentations to Chemistry classes including many demonstrations they wouldn't otherwise have seen in…
Take a look at The College of Arts and Sciences Women in STEM article, highlighting our very own, Dr. Claudi Turro! You can find the article here. We're lucky to have you, Dr. Turro! Thanks for…
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Ohio State University would like to express its deepest condolences on the passing of Dr. George Austin Marzluf, a respected Professor Emeritus…
Congratulations to Ben Garrett, CBC Alum, on receiving an invitation to the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany this summer! This is an outstanding honor and accomplishment as only the…
Congratulations to recent CBC alum, Brittany Trang, on receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support her graduate career. She will be starting her PhD in Materials Chemistry at…
CBC Undergraduate students, Milauni Mehta and Sydney Sillart presented their research at the 31st National Conference of Undergraduate Research at the University of Memphis in April. Mehta's…
Congratulations to CBC Undergraduate student, Seth Lyon, on winning first place at the 2017 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum! The College of Arts and Sciences chose Seth to do a spotlight on…
The American Chemical Society Columbus Section held a poster sesstion this Spring for area undergraduate and graduate students. Awardees were our very own Maxx Q. Arguilla, Brittany Trang, and…
The 2017 Leo Paquette Legacy Symposium was held on Thursday, May 4. Our guests included Professor Dan Weix of Rochester, Dr. L.-C. Campeau of Merck/Executive Director of Process Chemistry, and…
The Ohio State Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry would like to send a warm welcome to our five new faculty members who will be…
Please join us in congratulating our very own Billy McCulloch who has received a Presidential Fellowship in the Spring 2017 competition! The Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship is the…
Congratulations to the below CBC Undergraduate students who received an Undergraduate Research Scholarship administered by the ASC Honors Program! Well done, students!
Cory…
Congratulations to Dr. Ted Clark on receiving the 2017 Ohio PKAL STEM Educator Award! This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the field of STEM education at the college level. Well done…
Congratulations to the following CBC undergraduate students on placing at the 2017 Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum!
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Anne Co group's research is highlighted in case studies here. Check it out! Congratulations, Co group!
CBC undergrad, Austin Cool, was chosen by the College of Arts and Sciences to do a spotlight about his studies and life here at Ohio State! You can read more about Austin here!
CBC Undergraduate student, Scott Garner, was one of four Ohio State students recognized by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence Education Program. This is the most prestigious…
Congratulations to Professor Terry Miller on receiving the Honorary Membership Award from the Society For Applied Spectroscopy. This award is given to recognize individuals for their exceptional…
The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Associate Professor, Jennifer Ottesen, has received the ASC Honors Faculty Service Award, which recognizes excellence in honors advising, honors…
Congratulations to Dr. Prabir Dutta, and his business partners, Bo Wang and Steve Jones, on receiving a $100k grant from Ohio Third Frontier for their company, ZeoVation! You can find more…