Chemistry Spotlight

MS in Chemistry student Natalie Schultz, along with professional research assistant Nara Chon (MS Chemistry 2018) and Hai Lin, Professor of Chemistry, co-published a paper in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling on research of an ion transport protein called NarK. The paper is titled “Anion pathways in the...

Hai Lin, Professor of Chemistry, published a book, QM/MM Methods, in the ACS in Focus series published by the American Chemical Society (ACS). Lin’s book serves as an introductory text for graduate students and scientists who are new in the field of multiscale modeling and simulations. The book aims to...

CLAS professors Jeff Knight (Chemistry), Chris Miller (Integrative Biology) and Hai Lin (Chemistry) published a collaborative paper in the January issue of Protein Science on research conducted with Professional Research Associate Nara Chon (MS Chemistry ‘18 and first author on the study) and recent graduate Sherleen Tran (BS Biology ’20)...

Honors ACS Certified BS in Chemistry 2020 Alum, current PhD Candidate in Planetary Science at UC Berkeley, and NSF GRFP Fellow Tanja Kovačević was recently featured in a Vox video profiling the National Ignition Facility explaining her work on the giant laser being used to replicate a planet’s core.

The annual Western States Chemical Education Conference was hosted April 22-23 by Priscilla Burrow and Damian Dunford, faculty in the Chemistry department. Students and faculty from 14 different colleges and universities participated in workshops, panel discussions, roundtables, and a poster session. Attendees discussed topics such as student motivation, ways to...

The Jean Dreyfus Lectureship for Undergraduate Institutions program recently announced seven new grantees, and the CU Denver Chemistry Department was among the winners. The awards provide an $18,500 grant to bring a leading researcher to a primarily undergraduate institution to give at least two lectures and to substantively interact with...

Associate Professor of Chemistry, Marino Resendiz, recently received a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for 2021. These awards, from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, support the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences at undergraduate institutions. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding...

The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), the flagship journal of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, recently collected the 46 most significant research papers published during the past century and beyond . Associate Professor of Chemistry Xiaojun Ren’s paper “ Nuclear condensates of the Polycomb protein chromobox 2...

In addition to recently successfully defending his thesis, Kyle Brown, MS Chemistry student in the Xiaojun Ren laboratory, has already made great contributions to the epigenetic and chromatin field. In July, Kyle published two papers in high profile, high impact journals. He was the first author of a paper published...

Chemistry Professors Scott Reed and Doris Kimbrough are excited to announce that the National Institute of Health has funded the Rocky Mountain Summer Research Education Experience (RMSREE), to begin summer 2021 on the University of Colorado Denver campus. All high school STEM teachers from the Front Range are eligible to...