Chemistry at Syracuse University

Congratulations to Dr. Ari Chakraborty on his promotion to Full Professor!

A&S Chemistry Professor Presents New Research on Anti-Obesity Drug Professor Robert Doyle shared findings at the ACS spring meeting about a potential new drug which offers steady weight loss without common, unwanted side-effects.

Happy Holidays from the Syracuse Chemistry Department!

Congratulations to the Korendovych and Makhlynets lab on their recent publication in Nature!

Advancing Artificial Enzyme Engineering A research team including chemists from Syracuse University create the fastest artificial enzyme ever reported thanks to a novel method which quickly locates an enzyme’s “sweet spot.”

Thank you to Catherine Wallace (BS Chemistry ‘23) for sharing your undergraduate research journey with us! Catherine is doing awesome work in the Korter lab. Join us this Friday at 11:30am in the Chemistry Seminar Room to hear from Cordiana Cozier (BS Chemistry ‘23) and her experience interning at MassBiologics this summer.

Congratulations to Alona Kulesha for being awarded this year's Outstanding Teaching Assistant award. Very much deserved!

Congratulations to Prof. Davoud Mozhdehi on his recent NIH MIRA grant!

Physicist and Chemist in College of Arts and Sciences Awarded NIH MIRA Grants | Syracuse University News The five-year awards will fund Alison Patteson’s and Davoud Mozhdehi’s protein research.

Today, Tongyin Zheng from the Castaneda lab defended his Ph.D. dissertation, “Characterizing multivalent Interactions Between Folded Protein Domains and Intrinsically Disordered regions or Peptide Substrates”

Congratulations, Tongyin!

Today, Jennifer Yoon from the Makhlynets lab defended her Ph.D. dissertation, “Coordination geometries in metallobundles enforcing oxidative and hydrolytic catalysis and designing biomaterials for use as antimicrobials”

Congratulations, Jennifer!

Last, but certainly not least, we have our winners of the William D. Johnson Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant. Congratulations, Liz, Katelyn, Sadie, Yayat, Fortune, and Shawn. We appreciate all you do for our students!