Chemistry Spotlight

Chemistry students/researchers (Vi Tho Vy Nguyen, Haydee Ramirez, Brody Reynolds), from the lab of Prof. Marino Resendiz, were selected for poster and oral presentations at the RNA Canada 2024 conference in Ottawa, Canada. In addition, chemistry students/researchers (Vincent Conrad Oppenheimer and Vi Tho Vy Nguyen), from the lab of Prof...

Chemistry students/researchers Vashita Jain, Shawn Schowe, and Haydee Ramirez published their work recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in collaboration with their mentor Dr. Marino Resendiz and others. See link here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2317865121

Assistant Professor Woonghee Lee in the department of chemistry has just been awarded an NSF grant to further the state-of-the-art computational tool “POKY” for automation of data analysis for biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Dr. Lee released the POKY software suite in 2021, which has been distributed to more...

Associate Professor Jung-Jae Lee in the Department of Chemistry received an Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA/R15) grant from the NIH to support research in advance cancer detection and improve surgical precision using innovative glowing nanoprobes inspired by fireflies. The nanoprobes are specifically designed to target head and neck cancers, with...

Dr. Susan M. Schelble, a CU Denver Chemistry faculty member, was named one of the 37 new fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS) at the Fall 2024 ACS National Meeting in Denver on August 19, 2024. Dr. Schelble was recognized as an impactful 31-year professor of organic chemistry and...

The Chemistry Department at CU Denver recently played a pivotal role in the success of the ACS (American Chemical Society) Kids Zone event that was held on Saturday, 8/17/24 at the Lola and Rob Salazar Student Wellness Center while the ACS National Meeting was being held at the Colorado Convention...

In fall 2023, Dr. Resendiz was granted a renewal of his R15 grant (2R15GM132816-02) to pursue projects on the impact of 8-oxoG on the structure of RNA.

Abigail Chiu, a second-year master's student in Chemistry, has earned recognition with an honorable mention from the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). This prestigious program supports outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in STEM fields. Abigail has achieved notable milestones in her academic...

The Chemistry Department will once again host the highly successful Teachers' Summer Research Program in partnership with Cherry Creek High School (CCHS) in summer 2024, funded by National Science Foundation. “The program hosts math or science teachers from CCHS each summer, who will work together on a small side-project to...

A collaboration between two CLAS chemistry research groups, headed by Assistant Professor Emilie Guidez and Professor Hai Lin, has led to an article published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Chemistry MS students Anh Tran is the first author. The paper is titled “Adaptive-partitioning multilayer dynamics simulations: 2. Implementations...