On April 23, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation announced the selection of its 2024 class of Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows, individuals who underscore the Foundation's mission of supporting basic research in chemical sciences and chemical instrumentation. Awardees include Mason Lab postdoc Dan Laorenza and Lee Lab postdoc Paul Joseph Robinson. They were selected after a three-part review led by a panel of scientific experts.

The Foundation will award more than $4.3 million in funding over the next three years for 14 exceptional research fellows from 10...

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...

CCB graduate student Brandon Campbell, a member of the Novcera Lab,  has been selected as the recipient of the International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI) Graduate Student Award. This award recognizes Brandon's outstanding research conducted in Professor Nocera's group focusing on silver chemistry.

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Professor Xiaowei Zhaung, along with 14 other innovation pioneers whose inventions range from cancer treatments to theatrical technologies and special effects, will be honored in the 2024 class of National Inventors Hall of Fame® Inductees. 

In partnership with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Hall of Fame will honor these Inductees on May 9 at one of the innovation industry’s most highly anticipated events — “The Greatest Celebration of American Innovation^®.”

“Every year, I am impressed and inspired by the accomplishments...

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

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Six Harvard College students or recent graduates were among the 51 students nationwide named to the Marshall Class of 2024.

Two students, Simar Bajaj and Sarosh Nagar, are CCB students. The recipients will head to the U.K. next year for two years of graduate studies at the college or university of their choice. The students say the scholarship will help them pursue their ultimate goal of making the world a better, safer, and more equitable place.

Nagar, a chemistry and economics concentrator from Chicago, is interested in improving the development of scientific...

The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research announced 16 outstanding projects in its latest class of ASPIRE awards, granting more than $5 million for research that aims to answer key feasibility and proof-of-concept questions in an accelerated time frame, and scaling for impact based upon initial success. The high-risk nature of these projects, often based on new ideas that have generated limited preliminary data, tends to place them outside the scope of other funding opportunities.

Christina Woo won her work: ...

On Monday, October 2, Jin-Quan Yu, Bristol Myers Squibb Endowed Chair in Chemistry at Scripps Research, recieved the Max Tishler Prize in Pfizer Lecture Hall. Accepting the award, Yu delivered his Max Tishler Prize Lecture, entitled "20-Year Dancing with Palladium and C–H bonds: From Curiosity to Industrialization."

Lecture Abstract: 
"Part I: Reactivity and Enantioselectivity; Part II: Site-selectivity and Sustainability

The widespread presence of C–H bonds at various sites of synthetic substrates renders C–H activation the most...

On Friday, September 21, Xiaowei Zhuang recieved the 2023 Dreyfus Prize and delievered her prize lecture in Pfizer Lecture Hall entitled "Vizualizing biology at the nanoscale & genome-scale: From molecular structures in neurons to cell atlas of the brain." 

On May 12 the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced that Xiaowei Zhuang was the recipient of the organization’s highest honor and only international prize, the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences. 

Zhuang received this top...

On Friday, September 15, CCB hosted its inaugarual Undergraduate Teaching Program awards ceremony to honor undergraduate teachers for the vital role they played in shaping the chemistry educational experience at Harvard. The event included short speeches from CCB instructors and alumni who reflected on the value of undergraduate teaching, followed by a reception in the Science Center.

The three alumni speakers included Harrison Ngue, MD-PhD Student and former Chem 17/27 TF/PSL; Lindsay Poulos, HMS Research Assistant and former PS11 TF; and Annie Miall...

Joonho Lee, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been named a Laureate of the 2023 Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists in chemistry. The Blavatnik Regional Awards honors outstanding postdoctoral scientists from institutions in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut working in life sciences, physical sciences & engineering, and chemistry.

The Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists was established by the Blavatnik Family Foundation in 2007 and is administered by The New York Academy of Sciences. Laureates are awarded $30,000 each and two...

Today, the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation announced that Xiaowei Zhuang is the recipient of the organization’s highest honor and only international prize, the 2021 Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences. 

Zhuang receives this top honor for her pivotal contributions to Imaging in the Chemical Sciences. She is recognized for pioneering work to develop groundbreaking super-resolution imaging and genome-scale imaging methods and utilizing those methods to gain important new insights about biological...

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...

On Tuesday, May 2 Professor F. Dean Toste delivered his Max Tishler Prize Lecture entitled "Supramolecular Hosts as Enzyme Mimics." 

Dr. Dean Toste is currently the Gerald E. K. Branch Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley.  Toste was born in Portugal and grew up in Toronto, Canada. He graduated from University of Toronto with a degree in chemistry and biochemistry and from Stanford University in 2000 with a Ph.D. in chemistry....

 At the ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis, IN, Joanna Aizenberg received the ACS Award in Colloid Chemistry. See CEN for more details.

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