✨My first science feature is out in Chemical & Engineering News!✨ I interviewed and wrote about Dr. Shana V. Stoddard, a brilliant disabled scientist changing STEM. Disabled scientists deserve visibility and celebration. cen.acs.org/synthesis/me... #DisabledInSTEM #SciComm #RepresentationMatters

@olexandr.bsky.social in the news again, along with his former postdoc, Dylan, who is now an assistant professor at Michigan State - love to see the progress you are making!

CMU125 at Homecoming Weekend is Nov. 6-8! Register now for this landmark celebration: cmu.is/homecoming

MCS Faculty Members Recognized With Chairs - including our very own @olexandr.bsky.social Olexandr Isayev! 🪅🪇🥳🥂 www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

CMU Program Helps Students Incorporate Sustainable Learning Environment into Diverse Fields Individuals involved in this project span the labs of department chemists Terry Collins, Neil Donahue, and Ryan Sullivan. www.cmu.edu/news/stories...?

Undergrads brought the energy to MCS Pride Day — thanks for making it unforgettable!

Josephine Silone Yates was a professor of chemistry & among the 1st women in the US to head a university science department. She was also a journalist & editor & served as the president of the National Association of Colored Women in 1901.

MCS Pride Day is almost here! We’ll be celebrating undergraduates in the Mellon College of Science from 3:30-6:30 p.m. on Sept. 16 on the Mall between the College of Fine Arts building and Hammerschlag with an afternoon of fun, food and community.

They’re called “forever chemicals” because once they’re released, you can’t take them back… The House and Senate are proposing further delays in phasing out PFASs in firefighting foams. 🧵

The @acs.org 2025 candidate election statements are now available on @cenmag.bsky.social (and will be available in the Sept. print issue): cen.acs.org/acs-news/ele...

Did we know we are ranked 8th in the nation for best colleges for Chemistry? www.niche.com/colleges/sea... and top 5 for best professors? www.niche.com/colleges/sea... with top marks in Pennsylvania for our professors!

Chemistry Seminar: Christine M. Aikens, Kansas State University Theoretical Investigations of the Optical Properties of Bare and Monolayer-Protected Nanoparticles Host: Graduate Student Advisory Committee Wed, September 10, 2025 4 p.m. Mellon Institute Conference Room 348

🍕✂️ Get creative (and fed!) at our Pizza & Pennant Making workshop! 🚩 Join us tomorrow (Sept. 9th) from 4:30-6:30 PM in IDeATe Studio A on the first floor of Hunt Library to create your own @cmu.edu pennant while enjoying delicious pizza and drinks.

Chemistry & Mechanical Engineering faculty member Ryan Sullivan was interviewed for this article on understanding the consequences of flame retardant additives in furniture foam when it burns. cen.acs.org/environment/...

We gathered today to celebrate Tim and his retirement from Chemistry - he has been at CMU for over 40 years, and with Chemistry over 30 of those. Thank you for your many years of service; we will miss you more than you can know!

It was Welcome Back Picnic day! Thanks for all who came out to join us :)

Welcome back to all of our students! We’re looking forward to the fall semester with you!

Last day of #acsfall2025. Emma Bouchard, a graduate student @cmuchemistry.bsky.social chairs Cryo-EM and protein dynamics session of our “Bridging theory and experiment with AI” symposium. #compchem #chemsky

Attending #ACSFall #acsfall2025 meeting in DC? Interested in ML interatomic potentials? See my talk today @acscomp.bsky.social symposium on “Chemical Reaction Networks, Retrosynthesis, and Reaction Prediction” #compchem

Thesis Defense: David Hebert Garcia-Bosch Research Group @isaacgb9.bsky.social Copper Complexes with Bio-Inspired Redox-Active Ligands: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity Monday August 18, 2025 1:00 p.m. Mellon Institute Classroom 448

Thesis Defense: Colin Martin Armitage Research Group Strategies for Sequence-Specific Targeting & Delivery of γPNA in Human Cellular Systems Friday August 15, 2025 10:00 a.m. Mellon Institute Social Room 328

Our 2025 graduates! (a little late)

Final Public Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Shuhao Zhang Isayev Research Group @olexandr.bsky.social The development and application of reactive machine learning interatomic potentials Friday July 25, 2025 1:00 p.m. Mellon Institute Conference Room 348

Congrats to our Chemists who were awarded MCS Graduate Conference Funds! Isabella Stranick- ACS Innovations in Chemistry Savannah Talledo- Gordon Photochemistry Research Conference + Seminar En Zheng- Gordon Research Conference on Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Oligonucleotides

Thesis Defense: Amira Alakhdar Washburn Research Group De Novo Drug Design July 21, 2025 10:00 a.m. Mellon Institute Conference Room 348

Chemical Pollution's Blind Spot: How CMU Researchers Are Filling the Gaps The information collected will build a library to share the methods & data including predictions about the environmental impact/sustainability. @carrieamcdphd.bsky.social @olexandr.bsky.social www.cmu.edu/chemistry/ne...

Thesis Defense Lianshun (Evan) Luo Jin Research Group Atomic-Level Shape Control of Gold Nanoclusters: Synthesis, Absorption, and Near-Infrared Photoluminescence Thursday July 17, 2025 2:00 p.m. Mellon Institute Conference Room 348

Yisong Guo won the RSC Horizon Prize for designing iron-based catalysts that rival nature’s enzymes — advancing sustainable chemistry and industrial innovation. www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

The Initiator, the annual magazine for the Department of Chemistry, is live online! Learn about some of the achievements of chemistry students, faculty and alumni as well as notable updates from the department. magazine.mcs.cmu.edu/chemistry/

Prof. Alex Guo, Guo lab postdoc Dr. Jin Xiong, and their collaborators have received the Royal Society of Chemistry's 2025 Dalton Horizon Prize! 🥳🎉🎊🙌🥂 www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve... www.rsc.org/standards-an...

A Perspective from @gabegomes.bsky.social and colleagues covers the opportunities for LLMs to advance chemical research and the challenges that must be overcome to effectively use LLMs as scientific partners. www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🔓https://rdcu.be/etcqs

Our new @chemrxiv.bsky.social preprint: AIMNet2-rxn: A #MachineLearning Potential for Generalized Reaction Modeling on a Millions-of-Pathways Scale! #compchem Collaboration with @profsavoie.bsky.social group. Funded by ONR under #MURI program. #chemsky chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

In Nature Machine Intelligence, Faculty member Gabe Gomes @gabegomes.bsky.social , PhD student Daniil Boiko, and their collaborators propose a new type of molecular ML representation that includes quantum-chemical interaction www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

Our final travel award winners for the season were selected as the recipients of the Wang Travel Award, congratulations to: Xiaolei Hu from the Matyjaszewski Group Sunipa Goswami from the Garcia Bosch Group @isaacgb9.bsky.social

Congratulations to the 2025 Lassettre Travel Award Winners! Dhruv Sharma: Noonan & Kowalewski groups Nicole Auvil: Bier group Savannah Talledo: Bernhard group Ben Koby: Kurnikova group To learn more about the award and see past winners visit: www.cmu.edu/chemistry/gr...

Congratulations to our departmental travel award winners who will receive funding to attend conferences throughout the summer! -Ferdinando De Lucca Bossa, from the Matyjaszewski group -Hunter Wood, from the Sydlik group -Mitch Baumer, from the Bernhard group

A new start up from a collaboration of our Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biomedical Engineering Newell Washburn and his colleague Barnabás Póczos, from Machine Learning released software to help in the design of personal care and consumer products. www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

A sneak peak from Associate Professor of Chemistry, Carrie McDonough, @carrieamcdphd.bsky.social ahead of the 29th annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference being held in Pittsburgh June 23-26 communities.acs.org/t5/GCI-Nexus...

A national study put out by our incredible team of librarians is shedding light on how libraries are keeping up with the fast-changing world of #OpenScience. The study appears last month in The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 💻 Read the full story here: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

Congrats to Camden who successfully defended their honors/masters thesis today!

Carnegie Mellon University student researchers, including recent graduate Stella Trickett, working in the Sydlik lab - are working to find alternative treatments for non-opioid drug overdoses with fewer side effects. www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

Congrats to our many undergrads on the dean's list for spring semester 2025! www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

Professors Nimer Murshid, Simon Faulkner and Tiziana di Mateo shared how they incorporate AI in the classroom during the MCS Summer Symposium.

Nominate a chemist with disabilities for C&EN's Trailblazers 2025! Please tell us about your chemistry heroes, mentors, mentees, and inspirations—or nominate yourself. 👉 cenm.ag/nominatetrai... #chemsky 🧪 #phdsky #academicsky #STEM #phdchat #academicchatter

Women in Science Highlight Mentorship, Outreach as Integral to Career Success - featuring Chemistry undergrad Sydney Prescott! www.cmu.edu/news/stories...

Commencement may be over, but we're still celebrating! Check out photos from Commencement Weekend, and learn more about some of our recent graduates! www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

Congratulations to Ben Koby, of the Kurnikova group, on his Biophysical Society Award, NIH Fellowship www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...

Reminder to respond to the email survey about department jacket options; thanks to Tina and Ron for researching and putting this together! Jackets to be paid for by the department :)

Congratulations to our *2025* Chemistry Graduate Student Teaching Award winners! These four incredible students have made a real impact on our undergraduate courses through their dedication, creativity, and commitment to helping students learn and grow. Thank you for all that you do!