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Fall 2025 Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemistry Applications are Open!

The Department of Chemistry's Fall 2025 Ph.D. and M.S. in Chemistry applications are open! Interested applicants are invited to start their application through Slate today. Our graduate students enjoy a highly individualized program of study, learning from our world-class faculty and state-of-the-art facilities. Ph.D. students receive financial assistance through a...

Chemistry PhD Student Mai Rashwan Wins Runner-Up Student Poster Presentation Award at NASA Conference

PhD in Chemistry student Mai Rashwan recently won the runner-up Student Poster Presentation Award at NASA's 35th Annual Thermal Fluids Analysis Workshop (TFAWS 2024). Rashwan, representing the Burda research group, was the only awardee from Case Western Reserve University and won for her presentation of her poster, "Effective Photothermal...

2nd Annual CWRU Chemistry Research Symposium Held on Aug. 20

The 2nd annual CWRU Chemistry Research Symposium was held on Tuesday, August 20, at 9 AM during New Student Orientation Week. This half-day, student led symposium celebrated our Ph.D. students' ongoing research and allowed them the opportunity to present and take questions from their peers and faculty. After receiving...

Chemistry Department Holds Project SEED Poster Session & Ice Cream Social on July 26

On July 26, 2024, the Chemistry Department hosted its annual Project SEED Poster Session and Ice Cream Social in the Hovorka Atrium. The poster session wraps up eight weeks of the Project SEED Program, allowing our SEED scholars to share their summer research and engage with attendees. Congratulations to...

Chemistry PhD student Desiree Mae Prado to attend 2024 Summer Summit Cohort at The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy & Society

Desiree Mae Prado, a PhD student in chemistry, was recently selected to join a global cohort of early career researchers in the 2024 Summer Summit Cohort at The Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy & Society at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. Later this month, Prado and other emerging leaders...

Applications Open for CWRU Chemistry Research Symposium

Applications are now open for the 2024 CWRU Chemistry Research Symposium! The CWRU Chemistry Research Symposium (C2RS) is a half-day, student-led research symposium showcasing the exciting research happening in the Chemistry Department. The symposium will take place on Tuesday, August 20, at 1 PM in Clapp 108. All Ph.D. students...

Highlights

Crespo Group paper selected as one of the top in P&P

The recent paper, “The Triplet State of 6-thio-2′-deoxyguanosine: Intrinsic Properties and Reactivity Toward Molecular Oxygen” by Crespo Group members, Marvin Pollum and Luis Ortiz-Rodriguez was selected as one of the top papers published in Photochemistry and Photobiology for P&P’s virtual issue celebrating the publications 55th anniversary.