Chemistry @ Carnegie Mellon University
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Chemistry apparel pop-up store closes tonight, Dec. 3, @ 11:59 p.m. - so do your holiday shopping here!
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December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Chemistry apparel pop-up store closes tonight, Dec. 3, @ 11:59 p.m. - so do your holiday shopping here!
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Do you know outstanding undergraduate researchers who could use up to $1,000 in travel funding to present their work at the Spring @acs.org or @pittcon.bsky.social Meetings?
Please encourage them to apply for a Kolthoff award! Deadline is Jan. 12, 2026.
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Please encourage them to apply for a Kolthoff award! Deadline is Jan. 12, 2026.
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Awards for Undergraduate Students
Visit the post for more.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Do you know outstanding undergraduate researchers who could use up to $1,000 in travel funding to present their work at the Spring @acs.org or @pittcon.bsky.social Meetings?
Please encourage them to apply for a Kolthoff award! Deadline is Jan. 12, 2026.
acsanalytical.org/undergraduat...
Please encourage them to apply for a Kolthoff award! Deadline is Jan. 12, 2026.
acsanalytical.org/undergraduat...
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A bit late kicking off #ChemAdvent day 1, but here we are!
This year I'm finding chemical connections between some previous ChemAdvent editions 🧪
First up, earthy pyrazines are the connection between the smells of chocolate and green bean casserole 🍫
This year I'm finding chemical connections between some previous ChemAdvent editions 🧪
First up, earthy pyrazines are the connection between the smells of chocolate and green bean casserole 🍫
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A bit late kicking off #ChemAdvent day 1, but here we are!
This year I'm finding chemical connections between some previous ChemAdvent editions 🧪
First up, earthy pyrazines are the connection between the smells of chocolate and green bean casserole 🍫
This year I'm finding chemical connections between some previous ChemAdvent editions 🧪
First up, earthy pyrazines are the connection between the smells of chocolate and green bean casserole 🍫
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On #GivingCMUDay, support current and future scientists. Your support drives discovery, learning and growth across disciplines.
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Mellon College of Science
Join me and make a gift to Giving CMU Day 2025
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December 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
On #GivingCMUDay, support current and future scientists. Your support drives discovery, learning and growth across disciplines.
givenow.cmu.edu/schools/Carn...
givenow.cmu.edu/schools/Carn...
Extended to December 3rd!
We’re excited to announce the opening of a virtual pop-up store where you can purchase Chem Department swag. The store will be open until Nov. 30, so do your holiday shopping here!
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Underground Printing - Custom T Shirts and Apparel
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December 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Extended to December 3rd!
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Very excited to be working on environmental contamination problems relevant to PA with new Ph.D. student Elizabeth Smith!!
Rales Fellow Takes Green Chemistry Personally
Carnegie Mellon University Rales Fellow Elizabeth Smith is using her family experiences to inform her fracking research.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Very excited to be working on environmental contamination problems relevant to PA with new Ph.D. student Elizabeth Smith!!
We’re excited to announce the opening of a virtual pop-up store where you can purchase Chem Department swag. The store will be open until Nov. 30, so do your holiday shopping here!
undergroundshirts.com/groups/cmu-c...
undergroundshirts.com/groups/cmu-c...
Underground Printing - Custom T Shirts and Apparel
undergroundshirts.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We’re excited to announce the opening of a virtual pop-up store where you can purchase Chem Department swag. The store will be open until Nov. 30, so do your holiday shopping here!
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Our next Round of 16 matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the separation funnel of @rubialab.bsky.social facing off against Hailee Shin's light switch. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups here: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
#CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
#CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
November 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Our next Round of 16 matchup of the ChemPics Bracket Challenge sees the separation funnel of @rubialab.bsky.social facing off against Hailee Shin's light switch. Vote for your favorite and check out the full set of matchups here: cen.acs.org/education/sc...
#CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
#CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪
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📢 REMINDER: 2026 Lectureships 📢
We are still accepting nominations the 2026 ACS Macro Letters / Biomacromolecules / Macromolecules Young Early Career Award!
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🙌 Self-nominations welcome
Submit your nomination: buff.ly/hZKmC0K
We are still accepting nominations the 2026 ACS Macro Letters / Biomacromolecules / Macromolecules Young Early Career Award!
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🙌 Self-nominations welcome
Submit your nomination: buff.ly/hZKmC0K
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📢 REMINDER: 2026 Lectureships 📢
We are still accepting nominations the 2026 ACS Macro Letters / Biomacromolecules / Macromolecules Young Early Career Award!
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🙌 Self-nominations welcome
Submit your nomination: buff.ly/hZKmC0K
We are still accepting nominations the 2026 ACS Macro Letters / Biomacromolecules / Macromolecules Young Early Career Award!
🗓️ Deadline: December 1, 2025
🙌 Self-nominations welcome
Submit your nomination: buff.ly/hZKmC0K
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Hey #chemsky - it's time to vote for your favorite molecule in @cenmag.bsky.social's Molecule of the Year contest (curated by the amazing @bribarbu.bsky.social).
Some strong candidates in here. I'm excited to see which molecule will win.
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
Some strong candidates in here. I'm excited to see which molecule will win.
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
Meet the molecules of the year 2025
C&EN editors’ annual round-up of spectacular molecules we’ve covered in the past year
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November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Hey #chemsky - it's time to vote for your favorite molecule in @cenmag.bsky.social's Molecule of the Year contest (curated by the amazing @bribarbu.bsky.social).
Some strong candidates in here. I'm excited to see which molecule will win.
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
Some strong candidates in here. I'm excited to see which molecule will win.
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
Chemistry Seminar: Aditi Krishnapriyan
Berkeley
Machine learning methods for atomistic modeling: navigating speed, accuracy, and scalability trade-offs in the age of (some) large-scale scientific data
Host: Olexandr Isayev
November 19, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Berkeley
Machine learning methods for atomistic modeling: navigating speed, accuracy, and scalability trade-offs in the age of (some) large-scale scientific data
Host: Olexandr Isayev
November 19, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Chemistry Seminar: Aditi Krishnapriyan
Berkeley
Machine learning methods for atomistic modeling: navigating speed, accuracy, and scalability trade-offs in the age of (some) large-scale scientific data
Host: Olexandr Isayev
November 19, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Berkeley
Machine learning methods for atomistic modeling: navigating speed, accuracy, and scalability trade-offs in the age of (some) large-scale scientific data
Host: Olexandr Isayev
November 19, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Chemistry Seminar: Yi Tang, University of California
Discovery and Characterization of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
Host: Alex Guo
Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Discovery and Characterization of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
Host: Alex Guo
Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Chemistry Seminar: Yi Tang, University of California
Discovery and Characterization of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
Host: Alex Guo
Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Discovery and Characterization of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
Host: Alex Guo
Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
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CMU chemists are helping transform drug discovery through AI and automation as part of the NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis. Their work is accelerating reaction design and reshaping how chemistry is done.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis Creates Opportunities for Discovery
Carnegie Mellon chemistry professors, Olexandr Isayev and Gabriel Gomes, are making breakthroughs as part of the NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
CMU chemists are helping transform drug discovery through AI and automation as part of the NSF Center for Computer Assisted Synthesis. Their work is accelerating reaction design and reshaping how chemistry is done.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
Congrats to Emma Bouchard from the @olexandr.bsky.social group and Ivan Levkovsky from the Matyjaszewski Group who are featured in this article :)
Four CMU grad students are pushing the boundaries of science — from AI-powered drug discovery to dark matter modeling — and have earned NSF Graduate Research Fellowships to pursue bold, transformative research.
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www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
MCS Students Earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Four graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University's Mellon College of Science have been named recipients of the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship — a highly competitive awa...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Congrats to Emma Bouchard from the @olexandr.bsky.social group and Ivan Levkovsky from the Matyjaszewski Group who are featured in this article :)
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There’s a lot of historically and culturally significant stuff captured on audio (and video) tape. But tapes are mass-market items that weren’t made with long-term archiving in mind.
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social explores the chemistry involved in preserving them:
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social explores the chemistry involved in preserving them:
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
How preservation scientists are using chemistry to save sounds of the past
Preservation scientists are using polymer chemistry to help prevent old audio and video tapes from degrading beyond recognition
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November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
There’s a lot of historically and culturally significant stuff captured on audio (and video) tape. But tapes are mass-market items that weren’t made with long-term archiving in mind.
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social explores the chemistry involved in preserving them:
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social explores the chemistry involved in preserving them:
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
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Every lab can be a greener lab. 🌱
We’ve reimagined the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry as a modern poster you can hang where sustainable ideas take shape — classrooms, offices, labs, and wherever else you’d like to hang it. [1/6]
We’ve reimagined the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry as a modern poster you can hang where sustainable ideas take shape — classrooms, offices, labs, and wherever else you’d like to hang it. [1/6]
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Every lab can be a greener lab. 🌱
We’ve reimagined the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry as a modern poster you can hang where sustainable ideas take shape — classrooms, offices, labs, and wherever else you’d like to hang it. [1/6]
We’ve reimagined the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry as a modern poster you can hang where sustainable ideas take shape — classrooms, offices, labs, and wherever else you’d like to hang it. [1/6]
PhD Candidate Leticia Madureira will join CMU Libraries for their signature open science event, during a day of virtual talks that will explore how open science is transforming the ways in which we do research.
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cmu-lib.github.io/OSS-2025/
Open Science Symposium
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November 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
PhD Candidate Leticia Madureira will join CMU Libraries for their signature open science event, during a day of virtual talks that will explore how open science is transforming the ways in which we do research.
cmu-lib.github.io/OSS-2025/
cmu-lib.github.io/OSS-2025/
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Applications Open Through Feb. 18, 2026 - open to undergraduates interested in research in any discipline. Awards are $4,500 for eight to 10 weeks of full-time summer research on campus with a faculty mentor.
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SURF: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships - Undergraduate Research at CMU - Office of Undergraduate Research and Scholar Development - Carnegie Mellon University
SURF: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships
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November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Applications Open Through Feb. 18, 2026 - open to undergraduates interested in research in any discipline. Awards are $4,500 for eight to 10 weeks of full-time summer research on campus with a faculty mentor.
www.cmu.edu/uro/summer%2...
www.cmu.edu/uro/summer%2...
As an undergraduate student in the Department of Chemistry, Kevin Hunter benefited from professors who invested in his success. In his new role as the Mellon College of Science’s first director of core education, he wants to do the same for incoming and current students.
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Hunter Joins MCS As Director of Core Education
Kevin Hunter, a Carnegie Mellon alumnus, is the Mellon College of Science’s first director of core education.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
As an undergraduate student in the Department of Chemistry, Kevin Hunter benefited from professors who invested in his success. In his new role as the Mellon College of Science’s first director of core education, he wants to do the same for incoming and current students.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
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Join Carnegie Mellon researchers, including MCS Dean @barbsc.bsky.social and Head of @cmuchemistry.bsky.social Bruce Armitage for a faculty dialogue on Nov. 18.
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www.givecampus.com/schools/Carn...
Faculty Dialogues: Understanding Addiction - From the Classroom to the Community
Join me for this Faculty Dialogues presentation.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Join Carnegie Mellon researchers, including MCS Dean @barbsc.bsky.social and Head of @cmuchemistry.bsky.social Bruce Armitage for a faculty dialogue on Nov. 18.
www.givecampus.com/schools/Carn...
www.givecampus.com/schools/Carn...
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Are you a Ph.D. student at @cmu.edu? Can you describe your research and its importance in under 3 minutes to a layperson?
In 2025, 🥇 went to a @cmurobotics.bsky.social student. 🥈🥉 to @cmuengineering.bsky.social.
Register to compete in the 2026 #3MTCMU competition by 2/4. cmu.is/2026-3MT-Compete
In 2025, 🥇 went to a @cmurobotics.bsky.social student. 🥈🥉 to @cmuengineering.bsky.social.
Register to compete in the 2026 #3MTCMU competition by 2/4. cmu.is/2026-3MT-Compete
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Are you a Ph.D. student at @cmu.edu? Can you describe your research and its importance in under 3 minutes to a layperson?
In 2025, 🥇 went to a @cmurobotics.bsky.social student. 🥈🥉 to @cmuengineering.bsky.social.
Register to compete in the 2026 #3MTCMU competition by 2/4. cmu.is/2026-3MT-Compete
In 2025, 🥇 went to a @cmurobotics.bsky.social student. 🥈🥉 to @cmuengineering.bsky.social.
Register to compete in the 2026 #3MTCMU competition by 2/4. cmu.is/2026-3MT-Compete
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NEW #ChemSciCovers
'Mimicking sMMOH chemistry: trapping the Sc3+-bound nonheme FeIII–O–O–FeIII adduct prior to its conversion into an FeIV2(μ-O)2 core' by Yisong Guo, Marcel Swart, Lawrence Que et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
@iqccudg.bsky.social
@umnchemistry.bsky.social
'Mimicking sMMOH chemistry: trapping the Sc3+-bound nonheme FeIII–O–O–FeIII adduct prior to its conversion into an FeIV2(μ-O)2 core' by Yisong Guo, Marcel Swart, Lawrence Que et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
@iqccudg.bsky.social
@umnchemistry.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW #ChemSciCovers
'Mimicking sMMOH chemistry: trapping the Sc3+-bound nonheme FeIII–O–O–FeIII adduct prior to its conversion into an FeIV2(μ-O)2 core' by Yisong Guo, Marcel Swart, Lawrence Que et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
@iqccudg.bsky.social
@umnchemistry.bsky.social
'Mimicking sMMOH chemistry: trapping the Sc3+-bound nonheme FeIII–O–O–FeIII adduct prior to its conversion into an FeIV2(μ-O)2 core' by Yisong Guo, Marcel Swart, Lawrence Que et al.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
@iqccudg.bsky.social
@umnchemistry.bsky.social
Flashback Friday to MCS Pride day and a 'fire' performance from Professor Das
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Flashback Friday to MCS Pride day and a 'fire' performance from Professor Das
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How much do you know about the chemistry of spices? Test your knowledge of what spice chemicals can do besides seasoning food. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
Quiz: How much do you know about the chemistry of spices?
Test your knowledge of what spice chemicals can do besides seasoning food.
cen.acs.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
How much do you know about the chemistry of spices? Test your knowledge of what spice chemicals can do besides seasoning food. cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪
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Ph.D. student Abhrojyoti Mazumder is advancing quantum tech with gold nanoclusters — tiny, uniform materials that could enable faster, more secure communication and powerful quantum computing.
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Mazumder Turns Gold (Nanoclusters) to Tech Innovations
Chemistry Ph.D. student Abhrojyoti Mazumder earned a McWilliams Fellowship for his work investigating the properties of gold nanoclusters.
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November 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Ph.D. student Abhrojyoti Mazumder is advancing quantum tech with gold nanoclusters — tiny, uniform materials that could enable faster, more secure communication and powerful quantum computing.
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...