Chemistry

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...

Katie Schultz was in middle school when she first saw a model of an atom, the building block that makes up everything around us. Her curiosity led her to enroll in honors and AP chemistry classes in high school—and eventually to CU Denver for a master’s degree.

Researcher Jung-Jae Lee and students pioneer tools to guide cancer surgery, stop eye diseases, and diagnose infection in hours, not days. Inside CU Denver’s Chemistry Department, a small lab is doing big work: developing a “Surgical GPS” to guide cancer removal, engineering a therapeutic contact lens to prevent blindness, and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...