chemistry

Photo by Keli Schimelpfenig Blanton S. Tolbert, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, has accepted an appointment invitation to become a permanent member of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council (OARAC). The council can advise on the…

The Polymer Initiative of Northeast Ohio (PiNO) Conference will be held Friday, June 14, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center ballroom. This student-organized conference, originally created by graduate students in the Case Western Reserve University Department of…

Yifan Dai, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry, and Chung Chiun Liu the Wallace R. Persons Professor of Sensor Technology & Control, Distinguished University Professor, professor of chemical engineering and director of the Electronics Design Center, penned a review paper titled…

The annual Nobel Symposium, which was postponed due to cold weather conditions earlier this year, will take place Thursday, April 11, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall, Room 301. Three CWRU faculty members will describe the achievements of the 2018 Nobel laureates: Alex Huang, professor of…

A group of researchers recently had a paper titled “Neutral Charged Immunosensor Platform for Protein based Biomarker Analysis with Enhanced Sensitivity” published in ACS SENSORS. The authors of the paper were: Yifan Dai, PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular…

Representatives from several Case Western Reserve University departments and schools attended the annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Indianapolis Nov. 14-17. The representatives were from the College of Arts and Sciences’ biology and chemistry departments, the School of…

A group of researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Taipei Medical University recently published “Application of bioconjugation chemistry on biosensor fabrication for detection of TAR-DNA binding protein 43” in Biosensors and Bioelectronics. The group developed a single-use and…

The Pentzer Research Group from the Department of Chemistry and the Advincula Research Group from the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering published the first report of an electric motor based on plastic composites. Published in ACS Applied Energy Materials, “Plastic Metal-Free…

In January, Case Western Reserve University was among just 12 institutions nationally chosen by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to offer research grants and extensive mentorship to six undergraduate students in chemistry and the biological sciences—two each over the next three years. The…

If not for a national summer internship program that allows economically disadvantaged high school students to work with mentors on important chemistry projects, many of those young researchers might never discover the educational opportunities that await them. But the American Chemical Society’s…