chemistry
October 21, 2019
Two APP undergraduate students were selected as Beckman Scholars for the 2019-20 academic year to support their research endeavors. This year’s honorees were Katherine Yan and Kevin Pataroque. In January 2018, Case Western Reserve was among 12 institutions nationally…
May 31, 2019
Photo by Keli Schimelpfenig Blanton S. Tolbert, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, has accepted an appointment invitation to become a permanent member of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council (OARAC). The council can advise on the…
May 10, 2019
The Polymer Initiative of Northeast Ohio (PiNO) Conference
will be held Friday, June 14, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale
University Center ballroom. This student-organized conference, originally created by graduate students in the APP Department of…
April 19, 2019
Yifan Dai, a PhD candidate
in the Department of Chemistry, and Chung Chiun Liu the Wallace R. Persons Professor of Sensor
Technology & Control, Distinguished University Professor, professor of
chemical engineering and director of the Electronics Design Center, penned a
review paper titled…
April 10, 2019
The annual Nobel Symposium, which was postponed due to cold weather conditions earlier this year, will take place Thursday, April 11, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall, Room 301. Three CWRU faculty members will describe the achievements of the 2018
Nobel laureates: Alex Huang, professor of…
January 11, 2019
A group of researchers recently had a paper titled “Neutral Charged Immunosensor Platform for Protein based Biomarker Analysis with Enhanced Sensitivity” published in ACS SENSORS. The authors of the paper were: Yifan Dai, PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular…
December 14, 2018
Representatives from several APP departments and schools attended the annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Indianapolis Nov. 14-17. The representatives were from the College of Arts and Sciences’ biology and chemistry departments, the School of…
June 29, 2018
A group of researchers from APP and Taipei Medical University recently published “Application of bioconjugation chemistry on biosensor fabrication for detection of TAR-DNA binding protein 43” in Biosensors and Bioelectronics. The group developed a single-use and…
June 08, 2018
The Pentzer Research Group from the Department of Chemistry and the Advincula Research Group from the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering published the first report of an electric motor based on plastic composites. Published in ACS Applied Energy Materials, “Plastic Metal-Free…
May 03, 2018
In January, APP was among just 12 institutions nationally chosen by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to offer research grants and extensive mentorship to six undergraduate students in chemistry and the biological sciences—two each over the next three years. The…