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PSUChemistry has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in February 2021. Resources PSUChemistry has populated their site with include: • Resetting the fight-or-flight response | Anand Lab • Mallory Group Q&A: Microscopic robots may shape the future of health, tech and the environment • Nanoscience pioneer, Penn State alumnus to present spring 2025 Kohn Lecture | Penn State University • Q&A with Eberly GPSA Vice President of International Student Affairs Vaibhav Pal | Eberly College of Science • Protein accidentally lassos itself, helping explain unusual refolding behavior • Disrupting parasite gene regulation reveals new malaria intervention strategy • Volunteer Voices: Joseph Houck chats about the chemistry olympiad • Heard on Campus: Lukas Muechler on quantum materials • Penn State chemist receives Presidential Early Career Award • $3M grant targets integrated semiconductor for smarter, greener electronics • Hannah Priller selected as Eberly College of Science fall 2024 student marshal • "Rational Pathways to Ordered Multianion Chalcogenides Using Retrosynthetic Crystal Chemistry" | Hodges Group • Microplastics impact cloud formation, likely affecting weather and climate • Testing thousands of RNA enzymes helps find first ‘twister ribozyme’ in mammals • Bacterial protein discovered, engineered to better separate rare earth metals • Lukas Muechler receives DOE Early Career Research Award • University fellowships awarded to 110 graduate students • Amie Boal named Nicholas and Gelsa Pelick Family Chair in Science • Penn State chemist’s pioneering paper reaches 20-year milestone | Eberly College of Science • Elizabeth Elacqua named Weinreb Early Career Professor • Heard on campus: Nobel laureate Stan Whittingham • Apply to the Penn State Chemistry Grad Program! • Ray Schaak honored with Cotton Award from American Chemical Society • Christine Keating receives American Chemical Society lectureship award • PSU Chemistry 2024 Postdoc-to-PI Symposium • Kayla Hauer named 2024 Department of Chemistry Commencement Marshal • Chemistry graduate students awarded 2024 Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award • Vivian Valenty recognized with 2024 Graduate School Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award • Chemistry alumnus’s gift honors life-changing generosity • Showalter receives Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching • Knappenberger named chemistry department head • Undergrads in the lab: Kueyoung Kim (Zarzar Group) • Nobel laureate Ben Feringa to present spring 2024 Allcock Alumni Group Lecture • Course Spotlight: CHEM 111 First-year Research Initiative (FRI) • Penn State chemistry major receives 2024 ACS Student Leadership Award • Okafor receives 2024 Cottrell Scholar Award • Eric Nacsa receives 2024 NSF CAREER Award • Penn State biochemist Carsten Krebs named Distinguished Professor • Committee advances plan to rename Chemistry Building as 'Benkovic Building' • Penn State alumnus Richard Silverman to present the Spring 2024 Harold Kohn Endowed Distinguished Chemistry Alumni Lecture • Zarzar named a recipient of the Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship | Eberly College of Science • Chemistry graduate student receives prestigious defense fellowship • Lori Stepan represents Penn State Chemistry at the first inaugural ACS Outreach Summit • Chemistry department head cited in Nobel Prize-winning research | Penn State University • Could RNA folding play a role in the origin of life? | Bevilacqua Group • PSU Chemistry Graduate Program Fall 2024 Application Open • Chemistry alumna Dayna Patterson named a 2023 Hanna H. Gray Fellow • Cotruvo to receive 2024 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry • Squire Booker Honored with 2023 Percy L. Julian Award • PSU Chemistry Graduate Program Info Session Registration • Penn State professor helps the ‘light turn on’ for chemistry students • Research Lab Profile: Muechler Group • Chemistry Alumna Julianne Wolfe talks career shift and offers undergrads advice on 'essential skills' for problem solving • New, simple and accessible method creates potency-increasing structure in drugs | Penn State University • Research Lab Profile: Anand Group • 2023 Postdoc-to-PI Symposium • Research Lab Profile: Hodges Group • Chemistry alumna Paula Hietpas talks career development, tips for new graduates • Penn State chemistry undergraduate earns national Goldwater Scholarship • Chemistry graduate student earns prize at 2023 Graduate Exhibition • Ryan Lai named 2023 Department of Chemistry Commencement Marshal • Chemistry students receive 2022-2023 Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award • A tighter core stabilizes SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in new emergent variants • Research Lab Profile: The Mallory Group • new biosensor reveals activity elusive metal thats essential to life • Joe Houck receives 2022 C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching • Research Lab profile: The Fenton Group • Nobel Prize-winning Penn State alumnus Paul Berg dies • Benkovic Summer Research Award • Okafor receives 2023 Marion Milligan Mason Award • Research Lab Profile: The Freedman Group • Unconventional experiments produce new nanoscale particles with big potential | Schaak Group • Research Lab Profile: The Kuo Group • Marty Bollinger honored with the 2023 Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes • Laser writing may enable ‘electronic nose’ for multi-gas sensor | Zarzar Group • Chemistry Alumni Interview Series - Jieru Zhu • Click Chemistry: The Nobel Prize Winner Being Used in the Penn State Department of Chemistry • RSVP to the video premiere of "Faculty Conversations" • Penn State Alumna Rachelle Copeland receives the ACS Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry • Zarzar honored with Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Award • Penn State chemistry alumnus Alain Bonny named 2022 Hanna H. Gray Fellow • Nittany Chemical Society receives an "Outstanding" in their local ACS Student Chapter Report • Department of Chemistry hiring for two new Tenure-Track Faculty • Hispanic Heritage Month: Pedro R. Trinidad-Pérez • Alumni Feature Interview: Colleen Kelley • Hispanic Heritage Month - Lauren Dueñas, grad student • October 7th Hispanic Heritage Month Event and Lunch RSVP • Hispanic Heritage Month - Gabriel A. Vazquez-Lizardi, grad student • Hispanic Heritage Month - Isis P. Carmona-Sepúlveda, grad student • Chemistry's Career Network and Recruitment Fair 2022 • Aryl substrate reactions reveal more about the field of alkene dicarbofunctionalization • Alumni Feature Interview: Mike DeGrazia • Super-resolution imaging helps identify new proteins associated with neuronal MPS structures • Alumni Feature Interview: Wei Wang • Undergrad Research: Matthew Herne • Register for the Eberly Summer Book Club: Diversity at College • David Allara awarded 2022 Kavli Prize • Meet Our Alumni - Zach Waszczak Interview • Mauricio Terrones honored as Evan Pugh Professor • Meet Our Alumni: Laurie Mottram Interview • Apply to the Graduate Program • Seminar Program for Postdoctoral Fellows • Graduate Student Highlight: Steven Huss • Bollinger honored with Distinguished Faculty Mentoring Award • Prof. Ganesh Anand COVID Seminar • Dayna Patterson Recieves Winifred Burks-Houck Graduate Leadership Award | Eberly College of Science • Graduate Student Highlight: Rebecca Katz • Six elected to Graduate School Alumni Society Board of Directors • Chemistry Majors Named Recipients of John and Elizabeth Holmes Teas Scholarship • Graduate Student Highlight: Joseph Persichetti • Graduate Student Highlight: Erica Graff • Graduate Student Highlight: Mary Kate Caucci • Boal receives 2020 C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching • Garner receives 2020 C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching • Graduate Student Highlight: Heidi Busse • Graduate Student Highlight: Albanie Hendrickson-Stives • Graduate Student Highlight: Charlie Crowe • Graduate Student Highlight: Shannon McGee • Graduate Student Highlight: Alex Castonguay • Career Network and Recruitment Fair • Graduate Student Highlight: Steven Taylor • Graduate Student Highlight: Abigail Fagan • Graduate Student Highlight: Taylor Zaniewski • Graduate Student Highlight: Vincent Torres • Graduate Student Highlight: Kelsey Watson • A potential new antiviral drug for COVID-19 • Rachelle Copeland receives the 2021 Robert T. Simpson Graduate Student Award for Innovative “Risky” Science • Graduate Student Highlight: Jessica Lee • Stewart A. Mallory Joins Department of Chemistry Faculty • Elvira Sayfutyarova Joins Department of Chemistry Faculty • James Hodges Joins Faculty of Department of Chemistry • Lukas Muechler Joins Faculty of Department of Chemistry • Jonathan Kuo Joins Faculty of Department of Chemistry • Julie Fenton Joins Faculty of Department of Chemistry • Graduate Student Highlight: Edward Hilvano • Graduate Student Highlight: Eli Wenger • Chemistry Students Named Recipients of Benkovic Research Scholarship • Service Award Presented to Chemistry Graduate Students • Graduate Student Highlight: Jacob Piane • TA Application • Graduate Student Highlight: Mrutyunjay Nair • Leadership Award Presented to Chemistry Graduate Students • Graduate Student Highlight: Ciera Wentworth • Graduate Student Highlight: Alyssa Bienvenu • Squire Booker named inaugural Fellow of American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology • Chemistry Majors Named Recipients of Erickson Discovery Grant • Benkovic elected Foreign Member of Royal Society • Graduate Student Highlight: John Swartzfager • Graduate Student Highlight: Rebecca Balaj • Xin Zhang Receives Priestley Teaching Prize • Researchers discover potential therapeutic targets on SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein • Graduate Student Highlight: Patrick Corrigan • Graduate Student Highlight: Ryan Szukalo • Carolyn Telfer Receives Peter Gold Award • Chemistry Students Receive American Chemical Society Awards • Q&A with Mark Hedglin: How does a cell regulate the repair of its damaged DNA? • Chemistry Students Receive Excellence in Service as a Learning Assistant Award • Basel Karim Named Recipient of Peter Craig Breen Memorial Award • Chemistry Students Receive Excellence in Service as an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award • Cristina Craescu Named Department of Chemistry Commencement Marshal • Chemistry Students Receive Excellence in Service Award • Graduate Student Highlight: Seong Ik (Sonic) Cheon • Chemistry Graduate Students Recognized by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program • Pratyush Tiwary Seminar • Neal Devaraj Seminar • Ramesh Giri Q&A • Register for the Alumni Coffee Hour • Teas Scholarship • Register for the Chem TA Information Session • Megan Nagel Seminar • Lab Bench to Commercialization grant recipients announced • Alice Ting Seminar • Graduate Student Highlight: Nushrat Hoque • Lauren Zarzar receives NSF CAREER Award • Jörg Enderlein Seminar • Grant Johnson Seminar • Apply to be an LA • A chemistry major combines her passions to fulfill her dreams • Graduate Student Highlight: Leanne Mocniak • Apply to be a Chemistry TA • Wei-chen Chang Seminar • Virtual Scientist Initiative • Asbury, Bilén, and Knecht receive Multidisciplinary Research Seed Grant • Graduate Student Highlight: Arani Biswas • Dr. Barbara McClintock • Jian-Feng Li Seminar • Timothy Swager Seminar • Dr. Rachel Lloyd • Graduate Student Highlight: Haley Young • Dr. Paula Hammond • Graduate Student Highlight: Lily Mawby • Sloan Research Fellowships • Dr. M. Katharine Holloway • Chenfeng Ke Seminar • Eugenia Kumacheva Seminar • Dr. Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow • Graduate Student Highlight: Kara Pytko • Mildred Settle Bunton • Dr. Rebecca Lee • Jessica Schulze Highlight • Dr. Alice Hamilton • Apply for the Benkovic Summer Research Award • Sanchez Seminar • Lima Seminar • Graduate Student Highlight: Varun Mandalaparthy • REU Program Application • Miriam Freedman receives Early Career Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry • Jonathan Jones Seminar • Graduate Student Highlight: Margaret Gerthoffer • Lauren Zarzar awarded New Initiative grants from Kaufman Foundation • Richard Vaia Seminar • Penn State Faculty Named Editors of New ACS Publications • Professor Andre Clayborne Seminar • Graduate Student Highlight: Auston Butterfield • Virtual Scientist Webinar • Beth Elacqua Receives NSF CAREER Award • Penn State chemistry community grieves loss of Professor Emeritus James Anderson • Professor Sidney Wilkerson-Hill Seminar • ACS Local Section Seminar • Graduate Student Highlight: Dayna Patterson • Chemistry Graduate Students Receive Teaching Awards