chemistry

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 acade...

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 fam...

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 Mathu...

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 individuals...

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 accomplis...

A Case Western Reserve University chemistry professor was one of just a select few national energy experts invited to testify before a U.S. House subcommittee Wednesday. His message: More federal spending on the basic science of electrochemistry is critically needed. “I want them to understand whe...

Growing up in Lares, a rural town of Puerto Rico, Carlos Crespo-Hernández knew he loved science but was unsure how to turn that passion into a career. During his undergraduate years at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan campus, though, he began conducting chemistry research. Then, through a Na...

Five Case Western Reserve University junior faculty members have been awarded National Science Foundation CAREER grants, bringing more than $2.5 million for research to campus. The five-year grants support the scientists as they delve into how nanopartical organization controls properties of materi...

Two named for excellence in science, energy work In its annual list of the brightest young minds in the country, Forbes selected two members of the Case Western Reserve University community. Robert J. Gilliard Jr., a postdoctoral scholar in chemistry, and Felipe Gomez del Campo, a senior aerospace a...