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DSI’s new Director Brenda Rubenstein is passionate about building bridges between disciplines, from her integrative computational research to her new initiatives to connect researchers at Brown through the Data Science Institute.

MIT chemists synthesized a fungal compound that holds promise for treating brain cancer. Early studies find derivatives of the compound, verticillin A, can kill certain glioma cells.

Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, is the recipient of the 2025 Dreyfus ...

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Geneva Laurita, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, was recently named a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar — one of only eight to receive this national award — in recognition of her commitment to scholarship and undergraduate research.

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Héctor D. Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, is the recipient of the 2025 Dreyf...

A proposal submitted by Assistant Professor of Chemistry Carolyn Hutchinson for the Jean Dreyfus Lectureship for Undergraduate Institutions program for 2025 was recently approved.

Pollock is a recipient of the 2025 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

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Prof. Geoffrey Coates’s Franklin Award recognizes not only his pioneering work in sustainable polymer design but also the decades of collaborative innovation driven by the students, postdocs and colleagues who built that science alongside him. Together, their collective creativity and persistence have transformed visionary molecular ideas into real-world materials that advance environmental sustainability.

Yale researchers have completed a challenging synthesis of a molecule that may have potent anti-cancer effects.