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...

 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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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-...

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 ...