Brown University Department of Chemistry

Hyun Wook Choi (Wang Group) won the poster award for his poster on Boron Buckminsterfullerene at the recent 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy. https://www.grc.org/vibrational-spectroscopy-conference/2026/

Congratulations to all our Chemistry Undergraduate researchers who presented at the UTRA poster session.

Watch Prof. Lai-Sheng Wang's interview about Boron Buckyballs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7l6yt5Wm-Q

Congratulations again to Prof. Wang and Wang Research Group!

More Boron Buckyball (extended interview) - Periodic Table of Videos Brady's full interview with Lai-Sheng Wang, who led the discovery o...

Today, Special Materials/Analytical/Organic Chemistry Seminar with Xiangqun Zeng • Univ. of Missouri, Columbia. "From Molecular Design to Interface Chemistry for Next-Generation Real-time Sensors"

Not a seat left for the Chemistry Undergraduate Graduation Ceremony!

Congratulations to Chemistry's PhDs, Tilas, Prateek, Julia, Meg, Timea, Zoey, Rongzhen, and Stephen!

Congratulations to this year's Potter Prize winner, Timea Kolozsvary! (pictured with Timea's equally proud advisor, Prof. Ben McDonald!) The Potter Prize is awarded to the best chemistry PhD dissertation of the year.

Congratulations Meg!

Huge congratulations to Meg Shieh for winning the prestigious Joukowsky Outstanding Dissertation Award in the physical sciences!

Meg, who receives her doctoral degree in chemistry this May, is being recognized for her groundbreaking dissertation: “Chemical Tool Development for Elucidating the Mechanistic Roles of Sulfane Sulfur in Redox Signaling.” Her research tackles a massive challenge in chemical biology: creating innovative tools to detect, deliver, and understand reactive sulfur species, molecules that are crucial to cellular signaling and human disease, but historically incredibly difficult to measure.

Next up, Meg is headed to Bethesda, Maryland this July to begin her role as an NIH IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow. We can't wait to see how she continues to shape the future of medicine and chemical biology!

Read more: https://graduateschool.brown.edu/news/2026-05-12/joukowsky-shieh

Brown University Department of Chemistry

Chemistry Concentrator Simon Nirenberg, Class of 2028 featured in News from Brown. Simon received a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship! Congratulations! https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-05-12/fellowships-goldwater-oxcam-knight-hennessy?utm_id=97757_v0_s00_e231_tv2_tp1_a1demo0dynvuim&fbclid=IwY2xjawRwgR5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEecdebVUYAjTaO_NDZApEMSkFix87U2cQkhSMTKBVkfPLaLPztvQfl8Yifz1g_aem_ePLK3DYlwFHrus5fwLTl5A

Five Brown University students and a recent alumna earn prestigious fellowships Four Brown University undergraduates, a medical student and a Class of 2025 graduate were named among this year’s classes of Goldwater, Oxford-Cambridge and Knight-Hennessy scholars.

Thank you, Bakers! The Chemistry Graduate Student Leadership Committee (GSLC) Bake Sale raised $368 at yesterday's bake sale! This money will be used to assemble hygiene kits for local Rhode Islanders in need. Building on this success, the GSLC is planning an encore performance of baking deliciousness next semester.