College of Arts and Sciences

Shane Parker and Colin Schiltz (CWRU 2021) publish an article in The Journal of Chemical Physics describing a new perspective to the trajectory surface hopping concept--a powerful approach to simulating photochemical reactions--that can reduce the computational cost and improve computational reproducibility. The article was selected as an Editor’s Choice...

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Are you interested in furthering your studies in chemistry? Please join the Department of Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University for a virtual open house on Friday, Nov. 6, at 1 p.m. EST to learn more about our PhD in Chemistry Program. Tune in to learn about the program, hear...

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Graduate student, Luis A. Ortiz-Rodríguez from the Crespo Group publishes a Minireview in Chemical Science--the flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The publication is titled, "Thionated Organic Compounds as Emerging Heavy-Atom-Free Photodynamic Therapy Agents".

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The Tolbert Lab, in collaboration with researchers from Duke University and Rutgers University, have identified a potential drug candidate against Enterovirus 71 (EV71), a pathogen with no FDA-approved drug or vaccine.  The compound of interest binds to the viral RNA which induces a conformational change that inhibits viral replication. This work...

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In DOE-funded research, graduate student Matthew Chrzanowski and undergraduate student Stephanie Collins (now in the PhD program at UC-Berkley) in the laboratory of Thomas Gray, investigated 9-Borabicyclononane bipyridyl complexes that fluoresce in solution while also possessing multiple, reversible reductions.  The fundamental work studying boron-centered molecules opens opportunities to use...

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