chemistry

Desiree Mae Prado, a PhD student in chemistry, was recently selected to join a global cohort of early career researchers in the 2024 Summer Summit Cohort at The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy & Society at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Later this month, Prado and other emerging…

From movies set in dystopian futures to real-life courtroom dramas, DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, has fueled storytellers’ imaginations for decades. The molecule responsible for shaping our understanding of biological inheritance has inspired everything from comic book tales about the birth of…

Distinctive lifetime honor recognizes scientists, engineers and innovators for achievements across disciplines

Since its establishment in the 1980s, Women’s History Month has taken place each March to encourage the study, observance and celebration of women’s vital impacts on American history. Such impacts are evident throughout Case Western Reserve’s past and present, from the university’s origins as…

When Abbey Murcek was in high school in Pittsburgh, her robotics team worked with a special education teacher to create low-cost adaptive devices for students with disabilities. She loved applying newfound knowledge in a way that helped others, and sought to continue such enriching experiences in…

Four Case Western Reserve University faculty members will describe the accomplishments of the 2023 Nobel laureates in science Thursday, Feb. 9, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Rockefeller Building, Room 301. The following faculty members will present at the CWRU Nobel Symposium: Jesse Berezovsky, associate…

Shane Parker runs computer simulations on the effect of light on ultrafast chemical reactions; applications in solar energy, medical treatments Case Western Reserve University researcher Shane Parker has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program…

As picturesque as winter weather can be, snowy scenes often present a less desirable, slippery companion: ice. It coats our roadways, clings to windshields and serves as a general hurdle in daily life during the coldest months of the year. Ice-melt products offer a needed solution—but choosing…

Case Western Reserve researcher, collaborator at University of California-Santa Cruz to study role of nutrients in ovarian cancer cells Case Western Reserve University scientist Lydia Kisley, the Warren E. Rupp Assistant Professor in physics at the College of Arts and Sciences, and a collaborator…

This past September, “Scalable Synthesis and Characterization of Multilayer γ-Graphyne, New Carbon Crystals with a Small Direct Band Gap,” written by researchers of the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering and Department of Chemistry was published in the Journal of the American…