Harvard President Lawrence Bacow has approved Kang-Kuen Ni, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics, to the role of full professor with tenure at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1, 2021.

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Alessandra Canta, a joint Chemistry and Astrophysics concentrator with a secondary field in MCB, has won the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize. Gregg Tucci, Director of Undergraduate Studies, recently shared this incredible news with the Department citing that this is the first time a Chemistry concentrator has won in more than thirty years.

Her thesis, “Unlocking the Key to Life: Observation and Formation of Nitriles in Protoplanetary Disks,” won three prizes this spring: the  Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Leo Goldberg Prize...

Researchers design new experiments to map and test the mysterious quantum realm... Read more about Mapping the quantum frontier, one layer at a time

Liu is recognized, in part, for inventing base editors, which can edit the genomes of living cells with unprecedented precision... Read more about David Liu elected into the National Academy of Sciences