Keep up to date with recent happenings in Wheaton's Chem Department. For more official information, visit our website:
http://www.wheaton.edu/academics/dep
03/31/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Francis Umesiri! He recently published a paper in the prestigious European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, along with four Wheaton students Margaret Metzger '20, Janaya Feiner '21, Jake Cuevas '21, and John Kaufman '24.
Discovery of ultra short β-peptoids with selective activity against drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1kqPf_55HFRqF8
11/15/2024
Each year we host a local high school field trip and they solve a mystery using our bench top NMRs. Our lab manager does a great job with them! Today we enjoyed having them in our department.
10/30/2024
2024 Mole-o-Ween Party at Dr. Lovaasen's home. So much fun! And great costumes this year!
12/11/2023
Merry Christmas from the Chemistry Department! We had a great time at the annual Christmas party last night.
12/08/2023
This wonderful group of students are our Chemistry seniors in Dr. Walhout's senior seminar class. They presented their senior projects in a poster session today! Great work!
11/27/2023
We have exciting news in the chemistry department! Drs. Daniel and Lisa Burden just published a paper in Analytical Chemistry and their publication even made the cover! So many of our students researched with the Burdens to make this publication. Read the entire article here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.3c02329
The article is published with open access, so you won't need to pay for reading it. Congratulations Burden lab!
11/09/2023
Chem department chapel yesterday was so worshipful. Dr. Umesiri gave a wonderful devotional on faith and science. So meaningful.
10/30/2023
Mole-o-Ween party part 2. If you recognize any of these people and don't know what they dressed ask a chem major!
10/30/2023
So much fun at the Mole-o-Ween party on Sat night!!! Part 1
10/26/2023
New gen chem lab this year! Students synthesized asprin!
10/20/2023
After the stress-induced senior lab practical, we all headed over to get Boba tea! Great way to end our morning together. Thanks for putting it together, chem seniors. We love you! (Recent Wheaton grad, Zhenyn Han '23, also joined us. He was in town on fall break from grad school at UNC Chapel Hill. So great to spend time with Zhenyu!)
10/10/2023
We welcomed prospective students interested in STEM over the weekend! We had so much fun giving them a couple of demonstrations. The students asked great questions, and we are excited to welcome some of them to the chem department next year!