By Yahya Chaudhry

As a junior at Brighton High School in 2022, Roshaun Knight was unsure about his plans after graduation. An ambitious student, Knight had always wanted to go to college but had been putting off the application process, until he participated in the inaugural Harvard Chemistry High School Laboratory Skills (HSLS) summer internship program.

“Working with professors during the internship and working with other students confirmed to me that college is something I wanted to do,” Knight said...

By Paul Massari, Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Lisa Awaitey is not a morning person. She was even less of one when she was in high school growing up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. But she—and the sleep-deprived mother who drove her to school—somehow made it to class every morning at 630 a.m. The reason? Ms. Hofer.

“We were coming up on the AP chemistry exam and my teacher Ms. Hofer had us all at school early so that we could prepare,” Awaitey remembers. “...

The Harvard Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology has wrapped up its second annual High School Lab Skills summer intern program, providing an immersive learning experience for a group of local high school students to experience the world of cutting-edge research. The department celebrated the success of the program with a breakfast event on August 17 that highlighted and honored commitment of all its participants.

For six weeks, a cohort of talented and motivated Brighton-llston High...

On June 1st, CCB kicked off the second annual High School Lab Skills Summer Research Program with “Match Day” at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston. The afternoon highlighted the work of the six Brighton-Allston High School students enrolled in the program and provided an opportunity for CCB program staff, graduate and postdoc mentors, Ed portal staff and Brighton-Allston high school science teachers to meet and celebrate the work of this program. The high school students were handed a letter which contained their highly anticipated summer lab placement assignments. Once the matches were...

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Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), Direct Comparison of C−H Bond Amination Efficacy through Manipulation of Nitrogen-Valence Centered Redox: Imido versus Iminyl adds to the Betley Group's latest investigations.... Read more about New Publication from the Betley Lab