College of Arts and Sciences

On April 29, 2026, the Chemistry Department celebrated the 2026 Chemistry Awards Luncheon. Thirty-seven awards were given out during the ceremony to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. Dr. Xuekun Xing (CWRU, '88) was awarded the 2026 Outstanding Alumnus Award and gave an address via video presentation regarding...

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The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that the new Dunbar/Armentrout Graduate Student Travel Fellowship is accepting applications. The Dunbar/Armentrout Graduate Student Travel Fellowship supports domestic travel by PhD students in the Department of Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University that directly advances doctoral dissertation research and professional development....

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On November 13, 2025, the Chemistry Department hosted Dr. Ben Cravatt as the Shaomeng Wang and Ju-Yun Li Distinguished Lecturer as part of the Frontiers in Chemistry lecture series. Dr. Cravatt's talk, "Activity-Based Protein Profiling - Target and Ligand Discovery on a Global Scale," described the application of ABPP...

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Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have made a breakthrough discovery that may lead to new treatment options for asthma and other inflammatory diseases. For decades, molecules called "leukotrienes" - chemicals that are released from white blood cells when the airways are inflamed or an allergen is inhaled - were...

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Professors Drew Meyer, Rekha Srinivasan, and Brian Fitch represented the Chemistry Department at the Choices Fair on Friday, September 26. The Choices Fair is an annual event organized by Undergraduate Advising and connects undergraduates with departments across CWRU's campus, helping them discover their major or minor. Students attending the...

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First year Ph.D. in Chemistry student, Kayla Poling, became one of six graduate students at Case Western Reserve University to be welcomed into the 2025 ULRI Graduate Fellowship Program. The fellowship program, organized by the ULRI STEM Pathways Program at CWRU and sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., provides six...

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