Please join us in congratulating Abigail Ayodele and Livia Philip - recipients of the Herbert K. Livingston Award for Excellence in Teaching! #wsuchemistry #ChemSky

Congratulations to first author Nishani Manamperi! “Luminescence of BaFBr nanoplates codoped with Eu2+/3+” describes antithermal quenching in luminescent nanoplates. #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #ResearchInDetroit pubs.rsc.org/hy/content/a...

Dr. Arunkumar Thangarasu, from the Dent Lab, received the People's Choice Award for a poster presentation at the 2026 Molecular Therapeutics Symposium at Karmanos Cancer Institute. Congratulations! #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #MondayMotivation

Brice Vanness successfully defended his thesis: "Developing Digital Quantitative PCR for Biomedical Applications” this week at #wsuchemistry. Congratulations, Dr. Vanness! #PhDdone #AnaChem #ChemSky

The 2026 K-12 Outreach Program has officially come to a close and WSU NOBCChE hosted a campus visit at #wsuchemistry, welcoming students and teachers from three partner schools with the fundamentals of computational chemistry. #ChemSky #compchem #outreach #STEM

Congratulations to first author, Temitayo A. Olowolafe! The Li Lab’s newest publication: “Strong field ionization and dissociation dynamics of vinyl bromide (C2H3Br) initiated by few-cycle pulses” is in Physical Chemistry of Chemical Physics. #wsuchemistry #ChemSky pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Alice Walker and Charlie Fehl have been promoted to Associate Professors with tenure at Wayne State University! Congratulations 🎉 #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #glycotime #compchem

Rangika, from Nguyen Lab, placed in the Outstanding Poster Presentation at #NueroDay 2026 held at Wayne State University’s iBio Center. Congratulations! #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #BrainDay

#PhDdone! Dr. Carlos Lucecki successfully defended his dissertation: "Electro- and Photocatalytic Water Splitting Promoted by Cobalt Complexes Bearing Redox-active Ligands” last week at #wsuchemistry! Congratulations, Dr. Lucecki! #ChemSky

Today, members of the Allen lab presented posters and @mattallen12345.bsky.social served as a panelist at the Karmanos Cancer Institute Molecular Therapeutics 2026 Annual Symposium. Always great to see #wsuchemistry students sharing their research. #ChemSky

Happy Graduation, Warriors! 🎓 Congratulations to the Class of 2026 💚💛 #wsuchemistry #classof2026

The Final Public Oral Defense For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Brice Vanness will be held on Tuesday, May 12th, 2:00 pm, Room 111, #wsuchemistry. Good Luck, Brice! #phddefense #AnaChem #ChemSky

Today’s the day 🎓 Congratulations to our new chemistry PhD graduates! We are so proud of you 👏👏👏 #wsuchemistry #commencement #ChemSky #CongratulationsGraduates #chemistryPhDs

Photo of our majors and minors who were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at last night’s induction ceremony. These students have distinguished themselves through their academic accomplishments and commitment to lifelong learning. #PhiBetaKappa #PBK #wsuchemistry #ChemSky

Congratulations to Dr. Blake Stringer! Blake successfully defended his thesis today at #wsuchemistry. Dr. Stringer’s next chapter has already begun as a field service engineer specializing on the inorganic side with ICP-MS and AA moving forward. We’re so happy for you Blake! #PhDdone #ChemSky

Happy to share this #openaccess article from the Allen Lab - “Sustainable Strategy for Preventing Medical Gadolinium from Entering Surface Water” just published in npj Emerging Contaminants. #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #gadolinium www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The Final Public Oral Defense For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Carlos Lucecki will be held on Friday, May 8th, 2:00 pm, Schaap Lecture Hall, #wsuchemistry. Good Luck, Carlos! #ChemSky #phddefense

Many thanks to Matt Sigman for being the guest speaker at our inaugural Carl Johnson Organic Syntheses Lecture! Prof. Sigman gave a seminar on: "Developing Data Science and ML Tools for Synthetic Chemists.” Carl Johnson, is renowned scholar and researcher and former chair of wsuchemistry. #ChemSky

#PhDfinished! Dr. Sethma Wijesinghe successfully defended her dissertation - “Analytical Techniques for Preventing Gadolinium from Reaching Surface Water after Magnetic Resonance Imaging” last Friday at #wsuchemistry. Congratulations, Dr. Wijesinghe! #ChemSky #PhDdone #MRI

Kelli Hummel, of the Kodanko Lab, presented her research at today’s seminar - “Light-Driven and Environmentally-Derived Chemical Modulators of Biology: Studies of Ru(II) Complexes and Cyanopeptides.” Great job, Kelli! #wsuchemistry #NextStopPhD #ChemSky

Tom Kuntzleman, Tom Linz, and Inosha Gomes were recognized at the Academic Recognition Ceremony yesterday! Congratulations 💚💛 #wsuchemistry #chemsky

The Final Public Oral Defense For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Blake Stringer will be held on Tuesday, May 5th, 11:00 am, #wsuchemistry." Good Luck, Blake! #phddefense #chemsky #phdlife

Today, Steven Balboa, of the Fehl Lab, successfully gave his 4th year talk on “Designing Photocleavable GlcNAc Precursors for Spatiotemporal Control of O-GlcNAcylation.” Fantastic talk, Steven! #wsuchemistry #glycotime #chemsky #chembio #NextStopPhD

The Brock Lab had a winter semester wrap up lunch yesterday. Thanks to Md Masudur Rhaman for the photo. #wsuchemistry #lablife #chemsky

New Publication from the Nguyen Lab in the journal Medicinal Chemistry Research honoring Prof. Richard B. Silverman. #wsuchemistry #chembio #glycobiology #ChemSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The 2026 Honors Convocation happened today! It’s our favorite day of the year when we celebrate our students at #wsuchemistry 💚💛 Lots of award certificates were given and the crowd got a bit boisterous, but in a good way. Congrats to all of the recipients! #chemsky

Congratulations to Sean Hickey and Tom Kuntzleman on their promotions to Associate Professor of Teaching! #wsuchemistry #chemprofs #chemistryindetroit #waynestatefaculty #teachers

Wishing Dr. Regina Zibuck a very happy retirement! During her nearly 36 years at #wsuchemistry, she has taught chemistry to over 36,500 students and been a fantastic colleague and mentor. We will miss you Dr. Zibuck! Enjoy your well-deserved relaxation! #happyretirement #chemprof #ChemSky

It’s official! Akaninyene David Udoikono, of the Li Lab, successfully passed his candidacy exams yesterday and is now a PhD Candidate. Congratulations on this milestone! #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #pchem #phdlife

#NextStopPhD! Benjamin Oreskovic gave his fourth year talk on: “Dy-Doped Refractory Oxides as High-Temperature Optical Sensors” at #wsuchemistry today. Great talk, Benjamin! #chemsky #graduateresearch

We had the honor of hosting @lmkdassama.bsky.social for an insightful seminar on bacterial pathogens yesterday. We hope she enjoyed her visit to our campus and lunch with some of our ChemBio students:) #wsuchemistry #chemtalk #chembio #chembio

Congratulations to Anita H. Adams, of the Walker Lab on her successful 4th year talk - "Precision Engineering of Near-Infrared and Red Fluorophores.” Well done, Anita! #wsuchemistry #compchem #chemsky

The Rury Lab’s article, “Stabilizing Ultrathin CsPbBr3 Nanoplatelet Films for Deterministic Strong Light-Matter Coupling" is in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. #wsuchemistry #chemsky All Authors: Elizabeth O. Odewale, Isaac D. Boateng, and Aaron Rury pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Great to see Angela sharing her research at the Endometriosis Foundation Annual Conference in NYC, #ACSSpring2026 in Atlanta, and the APSA/ASCI/AAP Joint Meeting of the Association of American Physicians in Chicago. #wsuchemistry #chembio #ChemSky

Thank you to James Bour for his a talk on the latest research in #wsuchemistry’s Bour Lab. #chemistryindetroit #lablife

Congratulations to Jason Fahmy, recipient of the 2025 American Chemical Society Division of Biological Chemistry’s Outstanding Undergraduate Biochemistry Student Award! Jason is now a medical student at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #biochemistry

This week in the C&EN Magazine: How do you study microplastics when they’re everywhere? + Facts are in crisis. What are we going to do? Read more: cen.acs.org/magazine/104... #chemsky 🧪

Dr. Zibuck appreciation post! Regina Zibuck is known for her dedication to chemical education and outreach, including directing the Science Olympiad at Wayne State University. #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #WomenInChemistry #appreciationpost #chemistryprof

Joshua Renas, of the Winter Group, gave an insightful 4th year talk on: “Selective Atomic Layer Deposition using Self Assembled Monolayers" at #wsuchemistry this afternoon. #NextStopPhD #AlDep #chemsky

The Final Public Oral Defense For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Sethma Wijesinghe will be held on Friday, May 1st, 10:30 am, Schaap Hall, #wsuchemistry. Good Luck, Sethma! #phddefense #ChemSky #MRI

Thank you to Lucas Bao for visiting #wsuchemistry today and giving a seminar on everything from electrons to ensembles in predictive chemistry. #compchem #chemtalk #ChemSky

Alice Walker has received the OpenEye outstanding junior faculty award for 2026 from the American Chemical Society Division of Computers in Chemistry. Congratulations, @arwalker.bsky.social! #wsuchemistry #compchem #ChemSky www.acs-comp.org/awards/the-c...

Fathima, of the Brock Lab, passed her 2nd year candidacy exam and is now a PhD candidate. Fathima, we are so happy for you! Congratulations! #wsuchemistry #phdjourney #ChemSky

Warriors, thank you for helping us celebrate Giving Day 2026. Your participation made a significant impact in Wayne State's future and support for our amazing students, faculty, and groundbreaking research! #wsuchemistry #GiveGreenBeGold

Characterizing microscopic calcification deposits on acrylic intraocular lenses introduction. lumigen.wayne.edu/news/charact... #ResearchInDetroit #ChemSky

We are delighted to share with you that Fatima, of the Brock Lab, has passed her qualifying exam and is officially a PhD candidate at #wsuchemistry. Congratulations, Fatima! #phdlife #ChemSky #materialschemistry

Zeke Israel, of the Kodanko Lab, is one step closer to his PhD after giving his 4th year talk on: "Dynamics of Cyanotoxins in an Estuarine System and Their Accumulation in Freshwater Fish" at #wsuchemistry. #ChemSky #phdlife

Happy Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week! #wsuchemistry #chemistryindetroit #gradschool #ChemSky

Great talk from Tom O’Halloran today at #wsuchemistry. Professor O’Halloran’s work, at Michigan State University, focuses on metalloregulatory proteins, intracellular metal trafficking, and designing metal-based anticancer agents. #chemtalk #bioinorganicchemistry #ChemSky

Today's the day! It's @waynestate Giving Day 💚💛 A gift of $40 will buy a student with a lab coat, providing the safety gear needed for a successful semester. #wsuchemistry #ChemSky #GiveGreenBeBold 🔰 Give now: give.wayne.edu/schools/Wayn...