How can we keep transplanted organs oxygenated longer? How can we create chiral molecules with precise control?

The CCB winners of this year’s Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research are pursuing the answers to these questions. The CCB researchers selected for this year's awards were...

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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...

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By Yahya Chaudhry, via Harvard Gazette

What if emergency medical personnel could treat a desperately ill patient in need of oxygen with a simple injection instead of having to rely on mechanical ventilation or rush to get them onto a heart-lung bypass machine?

A new approach to transporting gases using a class of materials called porous liquids represents a big step toward artificial oxygen carriers and...

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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...

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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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As we shift towards a green economy, how can we track hydrogen leakages? What techniques can be developed to synthesize metastable quantum materials? How can we harness the interaction of light and matter to control chemical reactivity?  

The CCB winners of this year’s Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research are pursuing the answers to these questions. The CCB researchers selected for awards were Frank Keutsch, Richard Liu, Joonho Lee, and Jarad Mason. On Thursday, May 11, winners of the Star-Friedman Challenge gave short, accessible...

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By Paul Massari, via GSAS News.

Earth is getting hotter. Much hotter. A 2022 Washington Post analysis of data from the nonprofit First Street Foundation projected that 63 percent of the US population will experience an average of at least three consecutive days of 100-degree heat every year—up from 46 percent today. In parts of the South and...

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Jarad Mason will work to de-risk promising ideas, with the aim of eventually launching startups, thanks to funding announced today from the University’s Grid Accelerator.

Virtually every refrigerator and air conditioner in use today relies on volatile fluorocarbon refrigerants, extremely potent greenhouse gases. Their release into the atmosphere is responsible for 3 percent of all global warming, a number that is rapidly increasing. A project led by ...

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Jarad Mason, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been named one of the Moore Inventor Fellows. Launched in 2016 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, a prediction about the exponential growth of computing power, the program embraces the spirit of Gordon Moore’s passion for science and penchant for inventing.

“The Moore Inventor Fellowship recognizes the power of innovation to solve problems and reimagine our world,” said Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D., president of...

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Porous liquids hold promise as bridge therapy, game-changer for artificial blood substitutes, preserving organs for transplant.

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CCB researchers have developed an environmentally friendly mechanism to enable solid-state cooling with two-dimensional perovskites. Their findings are described in a new study in Nature Communications.

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Professor Jarad Mason and Professor Daniel Nocera's project, “Microporous Liquids: Next-Generation Electrolytes for Catalysis,” has been selected for funding in the 2022 Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research. 

The Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research (formerly known as the Star Family Challenge for Promising Scientific Research) provides seed funding to interdisciplinary high-risk, high-impact projects in the life, physical, and social sciences. This program...

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Mengtan (Mandy) Liu, a graduate student in Professor Jarad Mason's research group. has been awarded a 2022 Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship for her research, "Design of Meltable and Glass-Forming Metal–Organic Frameworks via Crystal Engineering." To encourage promising graduate students to pursue crystallographically oriented research, the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD) established the Ludo Frevel Crystallography Scholarship Fund to support the education and research program of promising graduate students in crystallography-related...

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Jarad Mason, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has won the 2021 Dream Chemistry Award for his project on treating hypoxia with microporous water. The Dream Chemistry Award is an international competition that recognizes young chemists who "dream of solving fundamental problems with bold ideas." The competition is organized by the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Read more here:... Read more about Jarad Mason wins the 2021 Dream Chemistry Award

Jarad Mason earns a prestigious Department of Energy grant to develop new materials and help solve global energy challenges

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