Chemistry @ Carnegie Mellon University
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Very excited to be working on environmental contamination problems relevant to PA with new Ph.D. student Elizabeth Smith!!
Rales Fellow Takes Green Chemistry Personally
Carnegie Mellon University Rales Fellow Elizabeth Smith is using her family experiences to inform her fracking research.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Very excited to be working on environmental contamination problems relevant to PA with new Ph.D. student Elizabeth Smith!!
We’re excited to announce the opening of a virtual pop-up store where you can purchase Chem Department swag. The store will be open until Nov. 30, so do your holiday shopping here!
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Underground Printing - Custom T Shirts and Apparel
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November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We’re excited to announce the opening of a virtual pop-up store where you can purchase Chem Department swag. The store will be open until Nov. 30, so do your holiday shopping here!
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Our next Round of 16 matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the separation funnel of @rubialab.bsky.social facing off against Hailee Shin's light switch. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups here: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
#CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
#CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Our next Round of 16 matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the separation funnel of @rubialab.bsky.social facing off against Hailee Shin's light switch. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups here: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
#CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
#CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
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📢 REMINDER: 2026 Lectureships 📢
We are still accepting nominations the 2026 ACS Macro Letters / Biomacromolecules / Macromolecules Young Early Career Award!
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🙌 Self-nominations welcome
Submit your nomination: buff.ly/hZKmC0K
We are still accepting nominations the 2026 ACS Macro Letters / Biomacromolecules / Macromolecules Young Early Career Award!
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🙌 Self-nominations welcome
Submit your nomination: buff.ly/hZKmC0K
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📢 REMINDER: 2026 Lectureships 📢
We are still accepting nominations the 2026 ACS Macro Letters / Biomacromolecules / Macromolecules Young Early Career Award!
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🙌 Self-nominations welcome
Submit your nomination: buff.ly/hZKmC0K
We are still accepting nominations the 2026 ACS Macro Letters / Biomacromolecules / Macromolecules Young Early Career Award!
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🙌 Self-nominations welcome
Submit your nomination: buff.ly/hZKmC0K
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Hey #chemsky - it's time to vote for your favorite molecule in @cenmag.bsky.social's Molecule of the Year contest (curated by the amazing @bribarbu.bsky.social).
Some strong candidates in here. I'm excited to see which molecule will win.
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
Some strong candidates in here. I'm excited to see which molecule will win.
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
Meet the molecules of the year 2025
C&EN editors’ annual round-up of spectacular molecules we’ve covered in the past year
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November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Hey #chemsky - it's time to vote for your favorite molecule in @cenmag.bsky.social's Molecule of the Year contest (curated by the amazing @bribarbu.bsky.social).
Some strong candidates in here. I'm excited to see which molecule will win.
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
Some strong candidates in here. I'm excited to see which molecule will win.
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
Chemistry Seminar: Aditi Krishnapriyan
Berkeley
Machine learning methods for atomistic modeling: navigating speed, accuracy, and scalability trade-offs in the age of (some) large-scale scientific data
Host: Olexandr Isayev
November 19, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Berkeley
Machine learning methods for atomistic modeling: navigating speed, accuracy, and scalability trade-offs in the age of (some) large-scale scientific data
Host: Olexandr Isayev
November 19, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Chemistry Seminar: Aditi Krishnapriyan
Berkeley
Machine learning methods for atomistic modeling: navigating speed, accuracy, and scalability trade-offs in the age of (some) large-scale scientific data
Host: Olexandr Isayev
November 19, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Berkeley
Machine learning methods for atomistic modeling: navigating speed, accuracy, and scalability trade-offs in the age of (some) large-scale scientific data
Host: Olexandr Isayev
November 19, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Chemistry Seminar: Yi Tang, University of California
Discovery and Characterization of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
Host: Alex Guo
Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Discovery and Characterization of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
Host: Alex Guo
Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Chemistry Seminar: Yi Tang, University of California
Discovery and Characterization of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
Host: Alex Guo
Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Discovery and Characterization of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
Host: Alex Guo
Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
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CMU chemists are helping transform drug discovery through AI and automation as part of the NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis. Their work is accelerating reaction design and reshaping how chemistry is done.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis Creates Opportunities for Discovery
Carnegie Mellon chemistry professors, Olexandr Isayev and Gabriel Gomes, are making breakthroughs as part of the NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
CMU chemists are helping transform drug discovery through AI and automation as part of the NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis. Their work is accelerating reaction design and reshaping how chemistry is done.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
Congrats to Emma Bouchard from the @olexandr.bsky.social group and Ivan Levkovsky from the Matyjaszewski Group who are featured in this article :)
Four CMU grad students are pushing the boundaries of science — from AI-powered drug discovery to dark matter modeling — and have earned NSF Graduate Research Fellowships to pursue bold, transformative research.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
MCS Students Earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Four graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science have been named recipients of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship — a highly competitive awa...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Congrats to Emma Bouchard from the @olexandr.bsky.social group and Ivan Levkovsky from the Matyjaszewski Group who are featured in this article :)
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There’s a lot of historically and culturally significant stuff captured on audio (and video) tape. But tapes are mass-market items that weren’t made with long-term archiving in mind.
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social explores the chemistry involved in preserving them:
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social explores the chemistry involved in preserving them:
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
How preservation scientists are using chemistry to save sounds of the past
Preservation scientists are using polymer chemistry to help prevent old audio and video tapes from degrading beyond recognition
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November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
There’s a lot of historically and culturally significant stuff captured on audio (and video) tape. But tapes are mass-market items that weren’t made with long-term archiving in mind.
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social explores the chemistry involved in preserving them:
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social explores the chemistry involved in preserving them:
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
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Every lab can be a greener lab. 🌱
We’ve reimagined the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry as a modern poster you can hang where sustainable ideas take shape — classrooms, offices, labs, and wherever else you’d like to hang it. [1/6]
We’ve reimagined the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry as a modern poster you can hang where sustainable ideas take shape — classrooms, offices, labs, and wherever else you’d like to hang it. [1/6]
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Every lab can be a greener lab. 🌱
We’ve reimagined the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry as a modern poster you can hang where sustainable ideas take shape — classrooms, offices, labs, and wherever else you’d like to hang it. [1/6]
We’ve reimagined the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry as a modern poster you can hang where sustainable ideas take shape — classrooms, offices, labs, and wherever else you’d like to hang it. [1/6]
PhD Candidate Leticia Madureira will join CMU Libraries for their signature open science event, during a day of virtual talks that will explore how open science is transforming the ways in which we do research.
cmu-lib.github.io/OSS-2025/
cmu-lib.github.io/OSS-2025/
Open Science Symposium
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November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
PhD Candidate Leticia Madureira will join CMU Libraries for their signature open science event, during a day of virtual talks that will explore how open science is transforming the ways in which we do research.
cmu-lib.github.io/OSS-2025/
cmu-lib.github.io/OSS-2025/
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Applications Open Through Feb. 18, 2026 - open to undergraduates interested in research in any discipline. Awards are $4,500 for eight to 10 weeks of full-time summer research on campus with a faculty mentor.
www.cmu.edu/uro/summer%2...
www.cmu.edu/uro/summer%2...
SURF: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships - Undergraduate Research at CMU - Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholar Development - Carnegie Mellon University
SURF: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
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November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Applications Open Through Feb. 18, 2026 - open to undergraduates interested in research in any discipline. Awards are $4,500 for eight to 10 weeks of full-time summer research on campus with a faculty mentor.
www.cmu.edu/uro/summer%2...
www.cmu.edu/uro/summer%2...
As an undergraduate student in the Department of Chemistry, Kevin Hunter benefited from professors who invested in his success. In his new role as the Mellon College of Science’s first director of core education, he wants to do the same for incoming and current students.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
Hunter Joins MCS As Director of Core Education
Kevin Hunter, a Carnegie Mellon alumnus, is the Mellon College of Science’s first director of core education.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
As an undergraduate student in the Department of Chemistry, Kevin Hunter benefited from professors who invested in his success. In his new role as the Mellon College of Science’s first director of core education, he wants to do the same for incoming and current students.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
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Join Carnegie Mellon researchers, including MCS Dean @barbsc.bsky.social and Head of @cmuchemistry.bsky.social Bruce Armitage for a faculty dialogue on Nov. 18.
www.givecampus.com/schools/Carn...
www.givecampus.com/schools/Carn...
Faculty Dialogues: Understanding Addiction - From the Classroom to the Community
Join me for this Faculty Dialogues presentation.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Join Carnegie Mellon researchers, including MCS Dean @barbsc.bsky.social and Head of @cmuchemistry.bsky.social Bruce Armitage for a faculty dialogue on Nov. 18.
www.givecampus.com/schools/Carn...
www.givecampus.com/schools/Carn...
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Are you a Ph.D. student at @cmu.edu? Can you describe your research and its importance in under 3 minutes to a layperson?
In 2025, 🥇 went to a @cmurobotics.bsky.social student. 🥈🥉 to @cmuengineering.bsky.social.
Register to compete in the 2026 #3MTCMU competition by 2/4. cmu.is/2026-3MT-Compete
In 2025, 🥇 went to a @cmurobotics.bsky.social student. 🥈🥉 to @cmuengineering.bsky.social.
Register to compete in the 2026 #3MTCMU competition by 2/4. cmu.is/2026-3MT-Compete
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Are you a Ph.D. student at @cmu.edu? Can you describe your research and its importance in under 3 minutes to a layperson?
In 2025, 🥇 went to a @cmurobotics.bsky.social student. 🥈🥉 to @cmuengineering.bsky.social.
Register to compete in the 2026 #3MTCMU competition by 2/4. cmu.is/2026-3MT-Compete
In 2025, 🥇 went to a @cmurobotics.bsky.social student. 🥈🥉 to @cmuengineering.bsky.social.
Register to compete in the 2026 #3MTCMU competition by 2/4. cmu.is/2026-3MT-Compete
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NEW #ChemSciCovers
'Mimicking sMMOH chemistry: trapping the Sc3+-bound nonheme FeIII–O–O–FeIII adduct prior to its conversion into an FeIV2(μ-O)2 core' by Yisong Guo, Marcel Swart, Lawrence Que et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
@iqccudg.bsky.social
@umnchemistry.bsky.social
'Mimicking sMMOH chemistry: trapping the Sc3+-bound nonheme FeIII–O–O–FeIII adduct prior to its conversion into an FeIV2(μ-O)2 core' by Yisong Guo, Marcel Swart, Lawrence Que et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
@iqccudg.bsky.social
@umnchemistry.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW #ChemSciCovers
'Mimicking sMMOH chemistry: trapping the Sc3+-bound nonheme FeIII–O–O–FeIII adduct prior to its conversion into an FeIV2(μ-O)2 core' by Yisong Guo, Marcel Swart, Lawrence Que et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
@iqccudg.bsky.social
@umnchemistry.bsky.social
'Mimicking sMMOH chemistry: trapping the Sc3+-bound nonheme FeIII–O–O–FeIII adduct prior to its conversion into an FeIV2(μ-O)2 core' by Yisong Guo, Marcel Swart, Lawrence Que et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
@iqccudg.bsky.social
@umnchemistry.bsky.social
Flashback Friday to MCS Pride day and a 'fire' performance from Professor Das
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Flashback Friday to MCS Pride day and a 'fire' performance from Professor Das
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How much do you know about the chemistry of spices? Test your knowledge of what spice chemicals can do besides seasoning food. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
Quiz: How much do you know about the chemistry of spices?
Test your knowledge of what spice chemicals can do besides seasoning food.
cen.acs.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
How much do you know about the chemistry of spices? Test your knowledge of what spice chemicals can do besides seasoning food. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
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Ph.D. student Abhrojyoti Mazumder is advancing quantum tech with gold nanoclusters — tiny, uniform materials that could enable faster, more secure communication and powerful quantum computing.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
Mazumder Turns Gold (Nanoclusters) to Tech Innovations
Chemistry Ph.D. student Abhrojyoti Mazumder earned a McWilliams Fellowship for his work investigating the properties of gold nanoclusters.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Ph.D. student Abhrojyoti Mazumder is advancing quantum tech with gold nanoclusters — tiny, uniform materials that could enable faster, more secure communication and powerful quantum computing.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
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Great @cmuchemistry.bsky.social collaboration with @isaacgb9.bsky.social ML-Accelerated Screening of Hydroquinone Analogs for Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer. We present AIMNet2 MLIP calculations of average BDFE for the 2H+/2e− dehydrogenation chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... #compchem #chemsky
Machine Learning-Accelerated Screening of Hydroquinone Analogs for Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer
Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) mediated by hydroquinone and related molecules is key to natural and artificial energy conversion. The reactivity of these molecules depends on their bond disso...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Great @cmuchemistry.bsky.social collaboration with @isaacgb9.bsky.social ML-Accelerated Screening of Hydroquinone Analogs for Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer. We present AIMNet2 MLIP calculations of average BDFE for the 2H+/2e− dehydrogenation chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... #compchem #chemsky
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Ph.D. student Tina Lin is designing new ways to customize polymers at the molecular level. Her research could enable faster, more sustainable production of materials with tailored properties for diverse applications.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
Thread By Thread, Lin Rethinks the Fabric of Material Design
Chemistry Ph.D. student Tina Lin earned a McWilliams Fellowship for her work investigating ways to create more precise polymers.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Ph.D. student Tina Lin is designing new ways to customize polymers at the molecular level. Her research could enable faster, more sustainable production of materials with tailored properties for diverse applications.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
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What my lab is up to currently...
Veterans and Firefighters Have Higher Exposures to Forever Chemicals. New CMU Research Could Improve Detection.
New research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Mellon College of Science aims to understand how forever chemichals build up in the body.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
What my lab is up to currently...
Trick or treat success! Saw a lot of PI impersonators who did very good work :) Can you find Prof's Kowalewski, Guo, Isayev, Noonan, Sydlik, Sullivan?
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Trick or treat success! Saw a lot of PI impersonators who did very good work :) Can you find Prof's Kowalewski, Guo, Isayev, Noonan, Sydlik, Sullivan?
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Brains, spiders, (were)wolves, and slimy eyeballs — a collection of creepy research topics that Dr. Frankenstein would appreciate! But unlike the mad scientist’s work, these studies aim to improve human life.
Check out four spooky science stories recently published in ACS journals:
Check out four spooky science stories recently published in ACS journals:
4 spooky science stories for Halloween - American Chemical Society
Brains, spiders, (were)wolves and slimy eyeballs — a collection of creepy research topics that Dr. Frankenstein would appreciate!
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October 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Brains, spiders, (were)wolves, and slimy eyeballs — a collection of creepy research topics that Dr. Frankenstein would appreciate! But unlike the mad scientist’s work, these studies aim to improve human life.
Check out four spooky science stories recently published in ACS journals:
Check out four spooky science stories recently published in ACS journals: