Professor Daniel G. Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy , has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research named for one of the most honored faculty members in Texas A&M University history.

The medal is jointly awarded each year by the Texas...

CCB undergraduate Constance Kraay, a member of the Shakhnovich Lab, is one of the 6 winners of the annual Undergraduate Poster Award Competition (UPAC), who recognized at the 67^th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony on February 20, 2023. After two rounds of judging, judges from every career level selected these students for their outstanding presentations during the poster competition. Sixty-two students participated in the competition.

Kraay won for “Investigating the Mechanism of Suppression of Human γD-Crystallin Aggregation by Myo-...

The Research Center for Functional Molecular Systems presents the Netherlands Awards for Supramolecular Chemistry 2023, which recognize outstanding scientists in the field of supramolecular chemistry.

The 2023 Netherlands Supramolecular Chemistry Award is awarded to Professor Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard University). She is a pioneer in the field of bio-inspired materials science and engineering — a branch of science that uses biological principles as guides in developing advanced, adaptive materials and devices. Her...

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 ...

Simar Bajaj, an undergraduate Chemistry concentrator, has won the Foreign Press Association's 2022 Science Story of the Year Award for his report on xenotransplantation.  Bajaj's award-winning story "Pig to human heart transplants are the future. Are we ready for it?" was published in The Guardian....

On Tuesday, November 15 Professor Jacqueline K. Barton delivered her Frank H. Westheimer Prize Lecture entitled "Signaling through DNA." Professor Barton was awarded the Westheimer Prize in 2020.

Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton is the John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor, Emerita in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. She is a native New Yorker. Barton...

Two Harvard College chemistry concentrators  will study at the University of Oxford next year as American Rhodes Scholars. The two concentrators -- Tessa Haining and Lauren Kim -- were among 32 U.S. students named recipients of the prestigious scholarship on Saturday.

“This year’s Rhodes Scholars representing the United States — elected by 16 independent committees around the country meeting simultaneously­ — will go to Oxford University in England next October to pursue...

Kang-Kuen Ni, professor of chemistry and chemical biology and of physics, has been named among the first cohort Moore Experimental Physics Investigators. Each of these investigators is pushing the boundaries of what is known and what is possible.

“The breadth and scientific audacity of experiments proposed by these individuals is stunning and inspiring,” said Theodore Hodapp, program director in the Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative. “Stunning as well, is the creativity and capabilities of these scientists.”

Ni’s research will focus on correlated atoms...

Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold, Jr. Professor of Science, has won the 2022 Heinrich Wieland Prize of the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for making seminal discoveries in cell and neurobiology with the ingenious imaging technologies she developed.  This international award honors outstanding research on biologically active molecules and systems in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, and physiology, as well as their clinical importance...

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...

Kang-Kuen Ni, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has received the 2023 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. The New Horizons prizes are awarded to early-career scientists who have made significant contribution to the fields of Fundamental Physics, Life Science, and Mathematics. The Breakthrough Prizes were founded by sponsors Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki.

“Congratulations to all of the Breakthrough Prize winners, whose incredible discoveries will pave the way for scientific...

Samagya Banskota, former postdoctoral researcher in the David Liu Lab, has been recognized as one of the world’s top innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review.

... Read more about CCB postdoc among MIT’s innovators under 35

This spring CCB launched a new award, the CCB Community Award, to recognize the immense efforts that are regularly being undertaken to develop a more vibrant community among the department's students, faculty and staffers and other community members. This award will be given on a quarterly basis to two individuals in our community who go above and beyond to improve our department and make CCB a great place to work and learn. 

Our first winner--Ally Freedy, Chemical Biology Ph.D. '22-- has been described as an empathetic and great leader. Ally has also...

Professor George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, has been selected as one the recipients of the 2022 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, which honors the "pioneers that created molecular scale coatings for surfaces which enable unprecedented control and engineering of surface properties. Their work transformed surface science and has led to applications shaping our daily lives in areas from medical diagnostics to semiconductor devices."

The Kavli Prizes are awarded in three areas: astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience – "to recognize...

Professor Cynthia Friend, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science, has been selected as the 2022 recipient of the F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research named for one of the most honored faculty members in Texas A&M University history.

The medal is jointly awarded each year by the...