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Chemistry & Biochemistry Department
With a Chemistry Degree...
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Find Your Happy BeginningMany chemistry students head to medical school or a graduate program. Others are eager to put their skills to work earning a paycheck. Demi Reed chose another route and joined the Peace Corps.
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Race a Nanocar on a Track of GoldWith no more than 100 atoms, they made a car with four wheels, axles, and a chassis--and drove it with an electron scanning tunneling microscope in the world's tiniest race.
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Be Part of the CureBuilding a nano-particle to kill cancer cells ... making peptides to stop Alzheimer’s progression? Mason Myers chose to look at antibiotic resistance and how molecules target RNA riboswitches.
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Students explore yesterday, today and tomorrow, searching for solutions to today's problems and imagining what they can build in a future of nano-devices and smart supramolecular architectures. They even probe the mysteries nature embedded long ago in cell walls and RNA.
Outreach and Public Engagement
The Chemistry & Biochemistry Department is committed to engagement with the local community as well as the scholarly community.
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Gifts by alumni and friends help support faculty and students in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department.
Recent Chemistry News:
Bythell Group Awarded Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Grant for Instrumentation
Dr. Benjamin Bythell’s group has purchased a High-Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) system together with a LC/MS 8050 Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer, nitrogen generator, and quantitation software thanks to an $184,500 instrumentation grant from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc. together with start-up funds from the College of Arts & Sciences. Bythell is […]
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Read MoreCimatu, Ambagaspitiya Publish about Polymers as Materials for Artificial Corneas
Physical chemist Dr. Katherine Cimatu with Tharushi Ambagaspitiya, a second-year physical chemistry graduate student, carried on the work of Dr. Narendra Adhikari (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) and Dr. Uvinduni Premadasa (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) on polymers that are promising materials for artificial corneas. “Dr. Adhikari characterized the materials to learn […]
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Read MoreHarrington Receives Fellow Award from the Society for Applied Spectroscopy
Dr. Peter Harrington receives the 2020 Society for Applied Spectroscopy Fellow Award—and presents two lectures on his research about identifying and quantifying synthetic novel opioids and fentanyl—at this year’s virtual SciX 2020 meeting on Oct. 14, according to an Ohio University news release. Harrington is professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry […]
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Read MoreHines Publishes on RNA-Targeted Drug Discovery
Dr. Jennifer Hines recently published a paper on targeting small molecules to disrupt the regulatory function of bacterial RNA. Her research group, in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Bergmeier’s research group, investigated the effect that limiting molecule flexibility had on RNA binding and function. “While the skeletal structure of RNA is very […]
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Read MoreTravis White in C&EN Diversity article: ‘I do belong.’
Dr. Travis A. White, assistant professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Ohio University, wrote about his academic journey as a Black student and faculty member—and a chemist–in the cover story of Chemical and Engineering News. “While attending our annual College of Arts and Sciences’ faculty awards ceremony last fall, I […]
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Read MoreChemistry Getting New Mass Spectrometer for New Building
From Ohio University News The Chemistry & Biochemistry Department is receiving a new mass spectrometer for its new building. Two groups of Ohio University researchers recently received National Science Foundation grants that will bring state-of-the-art research equipment into OHIO laboratories. “These grants are highly competitive and we are honored to […]
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Read MoreChen Publishes 3 Papers with Alumni, Richardson
Dr. Jixin Chen recently published three papers—on bioimaging in the near-infrared region, promising materials for photovoltaics and optoelectronics, and a new thermal imaging technique to measure the temperature profile of a thin film—with graduate students from Ohio University and colleagues from around the world. Chen, associate professor of Chemistry & […]
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Read MoreNew Chemistry Building Will Bring Labs Out into the Open
The Chemistry Building under construction between Clippinger Laboratories and Emeriti Park is creating a new look for South Green with its walls of windows, reports Ohio University News. And moving chemistry labs from the basement of Clippinger into a new building with volumes more windows and light will usher in […]
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Read MoreWu Named President-Elect of American Society for Photobiology
Dr. Shiyong Wu was recently elected president-elect of the American Society for Photobiology. He will serve as the president of the society from 2022-24. Wu is professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and director of the Edison Biotechnology Institute at Ohio University. He is an associate editor for the journal Photochemistry […]
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Read MoreHarrington Appointed to NIH Center’s External Advisory Committee
Dr. Peter de B. Harrington was recently appointed to Chair the External Advisory Committee for the National Institutes of Health Center for the Influence of Dietary Botanical Supplements on Biological and Behavioral Resilience, a recently awarded cooperative agreement center at the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine. Harrington is a […]
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