Chemistry

What does chemistry have to do with cancer surgery? What can the humanities teach us about the future of health care? And how does going to college shape your happiness decades later? At CU Denver's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, these aren't separate questions — they're part of the same conversation.

CLAS has officially launched its Health Research Collaborative, with more than 55 faculty members joining the college-wide initiative to connect health research across disciplines — backed by a new website and over $35,000 in first-year funding.

James Beham earned a scholarship to present CU Denver NMR research on amyloid-beta and imipramine research at an international conference.

Retired CU Denver chemist Larry Anderson continues global, student-connected research, most recently publishing Fulbright-based work on air quality near geothermal plants.

CU Denver Chemistry Professor Scott Reed (second from left) wins first place in AI pitch competition Explore a Degree in Chemistry CU Denver Chemistry Professor Scott Reed won first place in the AI pitch competition hosted with support from the Colorado SBDC serving Aurora-South Metro. The award includes $25,000 in...

CU Denver’s Woonghee Lee delivered an international keynote on AI-powered NMR workflows and research collaboration at Koç University in Istanbul.

CU Denver Chemistry researchers review POKY, an integrated NMR software ecosystem that streamlines analysis and helps accelerate structural biology discovery.

CU Denver Chemistry faculty, Dr. Susan Schelble, and staff member, Dr. Pamela Nagafuji, organized and presented at the Ethics and Laboratory Safety symposium at the Pacifichem 2025 Conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii, from December 15 to 20, 2025. Co-hosted by the American, Australian, Canadian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and New Zealand...

The University of Colorado Denver's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is proud to announce the launch of the Center for Advanced Computational Molecular Science (CACMS), a bold new hub for research, education, and workforce development in the heart of Denver. Advancing Science, Empowering Students CACMS, inaugurated in November 2025...

The funding will help expand the successful College of Liberal Arts and Sciences program within the College of Engineering, Design and Computing. Abigail Hollmann was headed for a career in health care when she first came to CU Denver—but she was dreading the physics classes she’d have to take as...