Undergraduate Programs
Our faculty share a commitment to undergraduate education. This commitment is shown by the diverse offering of undergraduate concentrations and courses as well as the opportunity for hands-on research in labs. In addition to these formal experiences, CCB Faculty are dedicated to nurturing students during their scientific journeys.
CCB is the home for the undergraduate concentration of Chemistry. In addition to Chemistry, CCB Faculty also teach and support student research in the undergraduate concentrations of Chemistry & Physics, and Chemical & Physical Biology.
We invite you to explore the links below to learn more about CCB's undergraduate programs.
News About CCB Undergrads
Sunny Shi honored with RSC Certificate of Undergraduate Excellence
The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) celebrated undergraduate researcher Sunny Shi on June 8, 2026, during the department's Summer Undergraduate Research Community Opening Social, where she was presented with the Royal Society of...
Profile: Environmental engineer inspired by community
Lizbeth Ibarra grew up next to an oil refinery, and every day she saw its impact on her community of Richmond in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her family and friends suffered from asthma and other respiratory illnesses. School days were sometimes cancelled...
Harvard undergraduates launch new ACS student chapter
Harvard undergraduates have officially launched the Harvard Undergraduate Student Chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS), which seeks to bridge the gap between undergraduate chemists and the broader scientific community. The chapter was launched...
News: Research Driven by the Heart
If anyone would want to do cardiac research at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH), it’s Shivani Srikanth. As a child, Srikanth had a heart condition that required a pacemaker to be surgically implanted, and the procedure was done at BCH. Now a fourth-year...
Nobel Laureate Steven Chu Warns of ‘Titanic’ Climate Challenge
On Monday, Nobel laureate and former U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu delivered a wide-ranging and urgent lecture, warning that the world is on track for catastrophic levels of warming, calling for a new era of scientific innovation and policy action to...
CCB Student Profile: A Scientist and a Survivor
Patryk Kozlowski was finishing his fall exams as a junior at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) when he learned he had leukemia. A young athlete and a burgeoning scientist, Kozlowski was stunned. Only weeks later, though, he faced even...
Alumna Q&A: Is the secret to immortality in our DNA?
It’s your typical biotech love story: A couple of eager Harvard students stumble upon a brilliant scientific breakthrough in anti-aging, drop out of school to pursue their dream, experience a fast and furious rise to fame before … well, we won’t give the...
Profile: Finding their own beat in engineering
Sometimes it just takes one class, or even one project, to make everything else click into place. In the spring of their second year, Bella Pignataro took “ES50: Introduction to Electrical Engineering” at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering...
Profile: She left small town for Harvard but found herself looking back
When Lilian Smith left Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, to attend Harvard, she was eager for new experiences and a fresh start in a bigger city. She didn’t expect to ever look back. But during her junior year, a religion course on nationalism prompted her to re...
CCB honors undergraduate research and celebrates Richard "Dick" Holm
Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology hosted its third annual undergraduate research symposium, showcasing its undergraduates’ state-of-the-art research projects and honoring the historic contributions of CCB professor and renowned...
