Chemistry

CU Denver Chemistry Department Professor, Emilie Guidez

Chemistry Professor Emilie Guidez Earns Phi Kappa Phi Love of Learning Award

Oct. 10, 2025

Dr. Emilie Guidez , Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, received the 2025 Love of Learning Award from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi , the nation's oldest and most selective academic honor society spanning all disciplines. Since joining CU Denver in 2017, Dr. Guidez has built a...

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CU Denver Chemist Developing New Tool to Illuminate Pancreatic Tumors

Oct. 10, 2025

Dr. Jung-Jae Lee , Associate Professor in University of Colorado Denver's Department of Chemistry, has received a Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research grant to develop an innovative imaging tool that could help surgeons more effectively identify and remove pancreatic tumors. Dr. Lee’s project centers on " advanced nanoprobes...

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CU Denver Chemistry Professor Woonghee Lee gives the keynote address at international workshop

Chemistry Professor Woonghee Lee Delivers Keynote Address at International Workshop

Oct. 9, 2025

CU Denver Chemistry Professor Woonghee Lee recently played a prominent role in a significant international workshop titled "Cutting-Edge Techniques in NMR and Mass Spectrometry." Professor Lee delivered the keynote address, "Advancing Automated Protein Chemical Shift Assignments through AI/ML/CV." The five-day event, held from July 1 to 5, brought together leading...

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Chemistry Undergraduate Student Dagoberto Grijalva-Flores Wins Award at National Symposium

Oct. 9, 2025

CU Denver undergraduate researcher Dagoberto Grijalva-Flores earned the Best Student Poster Award at the 2025 National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS), hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York. A student in the lab of Dr. Marino Resendiz , Associate Professor of Chemistry, Grijalva-Flores is exploring how oxidative lesions in...

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CU Denver Chemistry Professor Haobin Wang

Haobin Wang Named 2025 Romberg Visiting Professor: Advancing Quantum Research and Global Collaboration

Oct. 9, 2025

Professor Haobin Wang from the CU Denver Department of Chemistry has been named a 2025 Romberg Visiting Professor . Professor Wang is internationally recognized for his expertise in quantum dynamics, especially in large many-body systems. His groundbreaking contributions to the multilayer multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree (ML-MCTDH) theory have shaped the way...

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Advancing Quantum Chemistry: CU Denver’s Emilie Guidez Brings Global Minds Together in Colorado

Sept. 30, 2025

This spring, Assistant Professor Emilie Guidez co-organized and hosted the international workshop, “ From ab initio Computations to Conceptual Insights into Bonding ,” in Telluride, Colorado, from May 27–31, 2025. The workshop brought together quantum chemistry scientists from leading universities and national laboratories across Europe, Asia, South America, and the...

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CU Denver Chemistry Professor, Dr. Scott Reed, who was awarded the Fulbright grant.

CU Denver Chemistry Professor, Scott Reed, Awarded Fulbright Specialist Grant to Advance AI-Powered STEM Teaching in Estonia

Sept. 25, 2025

Denver, CO – The University of Colorado Denver is proud to announce that Dr. Scott Reed , a CLAS faculty member and researcher in chemistry and molecular informatics, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Specialist Program grant by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Dr...

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Chemistry Professor Hai Lin and Master’s Student Julia Roma show their poster at the Fall 2025 American Chemical Society National Meeting.

Chemistry at CU Denver: Real-World Research, Real Impact at the ACS National Meeting

Aug. 29, 2025

At CU Denver's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, we believe in research that matters. We're grounded in work that's accessible, innovative, and rooted in real-world impact. This August, Chemistry Professor and Department Chair, Dr. Hai Lin, along with Associate Professor, Dr. Emilie Guidez, and master's student, Julia Roma, brought...

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Eighteen CU Denver Faculty Among the Most Cited Researchers in the World

July 8, 2025

Eighteen CU Denver researchers are among the top 2% of highly cited scientists in the world, according to Stanford University and Elsevier. 

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Professor Scott Reed from CU Denver's Chemistry Department

Scott Reed Advances AI Reliability in Chemistry Research

July 1, 2025

Professor Scott Reed , from CU Denver's Chemistry Department, introduced a groundbreaking approach to improving artificial intelligence (AI) reliability in chemical research. Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to assist scientists, but they often generate misleading or incorrect information, a challenge known as "hallucination." In his latest study, Professor...

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