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...

We are proud to present our fourth edition of CCB Magazine! 

Click here to access the online edition.

Send us your comments and questions to the editor at yahya_chaudhry@fas.harvard.edu.

In this fourth...

Becoming a full-fledged organism out of a handful of cells, complete with functioning tissues and organs, is a messy yet highly synchronized process that requires cells to organize themselves in a precise manner and begin working together.

This process is especially dramatic in the heart, where static cells must start beating in perfect unison.

Now, a cross-school collaboration led by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard University has provided a glimpse into exactly how cells in the heart start beating.

In a study conducted in zebrafish, the...

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...

On Wednesday, August 30, CCB hosted the inaugural Harvard Chemistry Future Leaders Symposium (CFLS).

The mission of this symposium was to raise awareness of research opportunities at Harvard/CCB among senior graduate students and highlight a new postdoctoral fellowship, the CCB Chemistry Future Leaders Fellowship. The event showcased the achievements of early career scholars in chemistry and adjacent fields who have made outstanding scientific contributions and have shown exemplary stewardship in research and education with a focus on equity, diversity,...

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...

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.

... Read more about Keeping cool without warming the planet

Leah DeFrancesco has taken on a new position within CCB as a Research Scholar Coordinator. Leah will be coordinating research appointments and acting as the primary administrative support system for postdoctoral fellows. Leah is very excited to be a resource for CCB Research Scholars, and she is looking forward to contributing to the advancement of an academic environment where scholars thrive and flourish.

Below, Leah has provided answers to questions about her background and aims for her new position. Leah can be reached via...

CCB celebrated graduates from the Classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022 with graduation toasts during Commencement Week. The toasts were held in the Inner Courtyard of the Mallinckrodt building. See below for pictures. Note, this post will be updated with additional photos as they are collected.

Class of 2022 Toast 

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Joint concentrator used diverse talents to express science in English... Read more about The double life of Truelian Lee

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...

Hannah Sim wants the next generation to pick up where she leaves off

... Read more about The quantum storyteller

Shifting the experimental inorganic chemistry course to a virtual setting came with an unexpected bonus: the skills to write and publish papers in a peer-reviewed journal... Read more about Chem-145 undergraduates publish papers on novel crystals