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Stay up to date with the latest discoveries, announcements, and happenings in the Department of Chemistry. From groundbreaking research to student and faculty achievements, this is your hub for what’s new in our community.

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Thursday, June 18, 2026

Models, Iron and Insights: Visualizing Bominaar’s Legacy

Thursday, June 18, 2026

Hendrich Builds Tools as Well as Knowledge

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

CMU Startup Accelerates Cancer Drug Discovery

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

PPG Scholar Teams Program Supports Mentored Research in Chemistry

Thursday, May 14, 2026

Learning to Listen: Jingjing Xu Brings Humanity to Medicine

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Arnold Named GAITAR Fellow To Study How AI Can Strengthen Student Learning in Labs

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News & Events

Stay up to date with the latest discoveries, announcements, and happenings in the Department of Chemistry. From groundbreaking research to student and faculty achievements, this is your hub for what’s new in our community.

Models, Iron and Insights: Visualizing Bominaar’s Legacy

Hendrich Builds Tools as Well as Knowledge

CMU Startup Accelerates Cancer Drug Discovery

PPG Scholar Teams Program Supports Mentored Research in Chemistry

Learning to Listen: Jingjing Xu Brings Humanity to Medicine

Arnold Named GAITAR Fellow To Study How AI Can Strengthen Student Learning in Labs

Accelerating Drug Discovery with AI and Chemistry

Targeting Cancer at the Source

Avleen Chawla Encodes Biochemistry Breakthroughs

Breakthrough in RNA Research Could Lead to Treatment for Neuromuscular Disorders

Rales Fellow Takes Green Chemistry Personally

Scientists Join Forces to Guide Early-Stage Innovation Toward Sustainability

Veterans and Firefighters Have Higher Exposures to Forever Chemicals

NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis Creates Opportunities for Discovery

Thread By Thread, Lin Rethinks the Fabric of Material Design

Mazumder Turns Gold (Nanoclusters) to Tech Innovations

CATNIP for Chemists

Chemists Can Discover New Materials More Quickly With AI

Chemical Pollution's Blind Spot: How CMU Researchers Are Filling the Gaps

Lorna Williams-Rolley Guides Chemistry Students to New Heights

Team Provides a Roadmap for Large Language Models in Chemical Research

Innovator Uses CMU Education To Combat Rare Diseases

CMU Researchers, Team Win Royal Society of Chemistry Prize

Graduate Students Honored by Department of Chemistry

Enhancing Molecular Machine Learning with Quantum-Chemical Insight

Researchers Target Tire Dust Threatening Salmon

Research Offers New Hope for Overdose Patients

CMU Startup Helps Formulators with Complex Design Problems

Koby Earns Biophysical Society Award, NIH Fellowship

Chemistry Student Among CMU Goldwater Scholarship Recipients

Colin Martin Earns Hugh D. Young Graduate Student Teaching Award

Sydlik, Wang Use Expertise To Make Upcycling Plastic Easier

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Spring Award Winners Announced

Chemistry's Lianshun (Evan) Luo Receives IPMI Student Award

Hu Awarded the John and Nancy Harrison Legacy Graduate Fellowship

Copper-Dependent Enzyme Catalyzes Unprecedented Reactions

Nicole Auvil Awarded Kwolek Fellowship

Unbreakable Bonds

Teachers Bring Introductory Chemistry to the Digital Age

From Idea to Industry

Studying the chemistry of cloud formation at CERN

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Isoprene from rainforests drives new particle formation

Researchers Discover Crystallizable Organic Semiconductors with Machine Learning

NMR Pioneer Josef Dadok Dies at 98

Isayev Named Inaugural Carl & Amy Jones Professor of Interdisciplinary Science

Luo Receives McWilliams Fellowship

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

TAML Catalysts Efficiently Break Down Pharmaceuticals in Polluted Waters

Pople Lecture Returns

A Greener Future through Sustainable Catalysis

Collaborators in the Lab and Life

Chemistry Students Awarded Beckman Scholarships

Sherwood To Lead Undergraduate Studies for Chemistry

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

A New Class of Organic Nanoparticles

New ATRP Approach Could Transform the Manufacturing of Specialty Plastics

Noonan Named Associate Head of Chemistry

Karen Stump Honored with the Richard Moore Education Award

Sydlik Awarded Grant To Advance Clean Energy Research

Minerva Schafer Aims for a Sustainable Life

Payton Downey Wins Fugassi and Monteverde Award

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

Rafael Guzman-Soriano Wins K&L Gates Prize

Mackenzie Riley Wins Resnik Award

A Bright Idea

Chemistry's Zhongyu Liu Receives IPMI Student Award

MCS Researchers Awarded Kaufman Foundation Grants

Chemists Create Gold Quantum Rods with Unusual Optical Properties

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop New Machine Learning Method for Modeling of Chemical Reactions

MCS Graduate Student Conference Funding Award Winners Announced

CMU-UBC Team Wins Challenge To Advance Parkinson's Disease Research

Kriti Kapil Receives Kwolek Fellowship

Causing Reactions

Two Chemistry Faculty Named Among World's Most Highly Cited Researchers

Chemistry Ph.D. Students Awarded Tata Consultancy Services Presidential Fellowships

CMU-Designed Artificially Intelligent Coscientist Automates Scientific Discovery

Graduate Student Colin Martin Heads to U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials