chemistry

Case Western Reserve University researchers Alp Sehirlioglu of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Emily Pentzer of the Department of Chemistry, and Walter Lambrecht and Xuan Gao in the Department of Physics received more than $1,200,000 in funding from the Air Force Office of…

Case Western Reserve University has been selected by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to offer valuable research grants and extensive mentorship to undergraduate students in chemistry and the biological sciences. The university is one of just 12 institutions chosen nationally in 2018 to…

Services will be held tomorrow in remembrance of Robert C. Dunbar, emeritus professor of chemistry, who died Oct. 31. He was 74. Dunbar graduated from Harvard University in 1965 with a bachelor’s in chemistry and obtained his PhD in physical chemistry from Stanford University in 1970. He began…

Join WCPN ideastream, Sigma Xi and the Music Box Supper Club for a Science Café Cleveland presentation and discussion with Emily B. Pentzer, the Frank Hovorka Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Pentzer will present “Beyond 0s and 1s: Using chemical-based memory devices for large-scale data storage”…

Five years ago, Emily Pentzer was an aspiring faculty member trying to navigate the path toward a career in academia. To help make more sense of the process, she attended a Future Faculty Workshop for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars hoping to have a career as a faculty member. “In…

Nobel Laureate George Olah, a professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry here during the 1960s and ‘70s, died last week at his home in California. He was 89. Originally from Budapest, Hungary, Olah fled the country with his family during a Soviet military crackdown in 1956. Olah and his…

Three Case Western Reserve University faculty will describe the accomplishments of the 2016 Nobel laureates in science at the CWRU Nobel Symposium Thursday, Feb. 9, from 4 to 6 p.m. in Rockefeller Building, Room 301. Faculty members will give talks on the following subjects: Physics: Harsh…

Barry Miller, the Frank Hovorka Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, recently received the Edward Goodrich Acheson Award from the Electrochemical Society. The award is presented to one person every two years for "conspicuous contribution to the advancement of the objectives, purposes and activities of…

Morton Mandel Case Western Reserve University alumnus Morton L. Mandel (CWR ’13) titled his senior capstone project It’s All About Who for good reason: Among his most longstanding and central principles of leadership is the critical importance of attracting and keeping the most talented…

Robert Gilliard, a postdoctoral researcher in chemistry, received the SciFinder Future Leader Award from the Chemical Abstracts Service, a division of the American Chemical Society. He was one of approximately 25 awardees from around the world. Winners are selected based on their academic…