Chemistry @ Carnegie Mellon University
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Chemistry Seminar: Aditi Krishnapriyan
Berkeley
Machine learning methods for atomistic modeling: navigating speed, accuracy, and scalability trade-offs in the age of (some) large-scale scientific data
Host: Olexandr Isayev
November 19, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Berkeley
Machine learning methods for atomistic modeling: navigating speed, accuracy, and scalability trade-offs in the age of (some) large-scale scientific data
Host: Olexandr Isayev
November 19, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Chemistry Seminar: Aditi Krishnapriyan
Berkeley
Machine learning methods for atomistic modeling: navigating speed, accuracy, and scalability trade-offs in the age of (some) large-scale scientific data
Host: Olexandr Isayev
November 19, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Berkeley
Machine learning methods for atomistic modeling: navigating speed, accuracy, and scalability trade-offs in the age of (some) large-scale scientific data
Host: Olexandr Isayev
November 19, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Chemistry Seminar: Yi Tang, University of California
Discovery and Characterization of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
Host: Alex Guo
Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Discovery and Characterization of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
Host: Alex Guo
Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
November 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Chemistry Seminar: Yi Tang, University of California
Discovery and Characterization of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
Host: Alex Guo
Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Discovery and Characterization of Natural Product Biosynthetic Pathways
Host: Alex Guo
Friday, November 14, 2025 @ 12:30 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Flashback Friday to MCS Pride day and a 'fire' performance from Professor Das
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Flashback Friday to MCS Pride day and a 'fire' performance from Professor Das
Trick or treat success! Saw a lot of PI impersonators who did very good work :) Can you find Prof's Kowalewski, Guo, Isayev, Noonan, Sydlik, Sullivan?
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Trick or treat success! Saw a lot of PI impersonators who did very good work :) Can you find Prof's Kowalewski, Guo, Isayev, Noonan, Sydlik, Sullivan?
Happy Halloween! Department trick or treat starts soon 🎃🍬🍭
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Happy Halloween! Department trick or treat starts soon 🎃🍬🍭
Chemistry Seminar: Penny Beuning, Northeastern University
Characterization of Cancer-Associated Variants of DNA Polymerase Kappa
Host: Subha Das
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Characterization of Cancer-Associated Variants of DNA Polymerase Kappa
Host: Subha Das
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
October 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Chemistry Seminar: Penny Beuning, Northeastern University
Characterization of Cancer-Associated Variants of DNA Polymerase Kappa
Host: Subha Das
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Characterization of Cancer-Associated Variants of DNA Polymerase Kappa
Host: Subha Das
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Professor Maria Kurnikova will receive the 2025 WCC Award for Excellence in The Chemical Sciences next month at the ACS Pittsburgh Section Annual Award Banquet.
Congratulations Dr. Kurnikova! 🎉🎊
Congratulations Dr. Kurnikova! 🎉🎊
October 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Professor Maria Kurnikova will receive the 2025 WCC Award for Excellence in The Chemical Sciences next month at the ACS Pittsburgh Section Annual Award Banquet.
Congratulations Dr. Kurnikova! 🎉🎊
Congratulations Dr. Kurnikova! 🎉🎊
Congratulations to Whitney Ribnick on her early initiation into Phi Beta Kappa (PBK)!
Whitney was also inducted into the Andrew Carnegie Society. (ACS) recognizes just 40 seniors each year who embody Carnegie Mellon’s highest standards of academic excellence, leadership, volunteerism, & engagement
Whitney was also inducted into the Andrew Carnegie Society. (ACS) recognizes just 40 seniors each year who embody Carnegie Mellon’s highest standards of academic excellence, leadership, volunteerism, & engagement
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Congratulations to Whitney Ribnick on her early initiation into Phi Beta Kappa (PBK)!
Whitney was also inducted into the Andrew Carnegie Society. (ACS) recognizes just 40 seniors each year who embody Carnegie Mellon’s highest standards of academic excellence, leadership, volunteerism, & engagement
Whitney was also inducted into the Andrew Carnegie Society. (ACS) recognizes just 40 seniors each year who embody Carnegie Mellon’s highest standards of academic excellence, leadership, volunteerism, & engagement
Avleen Chawla from the Kietrys Lab has been selected to receive this year's Kwolek Fellowship. Created in 2016 by a generous bequest from our alumna Stephanie Kwolek, this is the 10th year that we have awarded the fellowship.
Congratulations Avleen!
Congratulations Avleen!
October 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Avleen Chawla from the Kietrys Lab has been selected to receive this year's Kwolek Fellowship. Created in 2016 by a generous bequest from our alumna Stephanie Kwolek, this is the 10th year that we have awarded the fellowship.
Congratulations Avleen!
Congratulations Avleen!
Chemistry Seminar
Bryan Pivovar
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The potential role of H2 in the global energy system
Host: Kevin Noonan
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Bryan Pivovar
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The potential role of H2 in the global energy system
Host: Kevin Noonan
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
October 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Chemistry Seminar
Bryan Pivovar
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The potential role of H2 in the global energy system
Host: Kevin Noonan
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Bryan Pivovar
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
The potential role of H2 in the global energy system
Host: Kevin Noonan
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Chemistry Seminar: Janusz Dąbrowski
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
From Light to Cure: Nanoengineered Photosensitizers for Treating Resistant Cancers and Microbes
Host: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
From Light to Cure: Nanoengineered Photosensitizers for Treating Resistant Cancers and Microbes
Host: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
October 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Chemistry Seminar: Janusz Dąbrowski
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
From Light to Cure: Nanoengineered Photosensitizers for Treating Resistant Cancers and Microbes
Host: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Jagiellonian University, Krakow
From Light to Cure: Nanoengineered Photosensitizers for Treating Resistant Cancers and Microbes
Host: Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
4:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Sijie Fu
Washburn Research Group
Machine Learning for Chemistry and Formulation: Generative Discovery, Data-Driven Modeling, and Autonomous Experimentation
Wednesday October 1, 2025
2:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Classroom 355
Examiners:
Newell Washburn
Hyung Kim
Olexandr Isayev
Robert Tilton
Washburn Research Group
Machine Learning for Chemistry and Formulation: Generative Discovery, Data-Driven Modeling, and Autonomous Experimentation
Wednesday October 1, 2025
2:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Classroom 355
Examiners:
Newell Washburn
Hyung Kim
Olexandr Isayev
Robert Tilton
October 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Sijie Fu
Washburn Research Group
Machine Learning for Chemistry and Formulation: Generative Discovery, Data-Driven Modeling, and Autonomous Experimentation
Wednesday October 1, 2025
2:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Classroom 355
Examiners:
Newell Washburn
Hyung Kim
Olexandr Isayev
Robert Tilton
Washburn Research Group
Machine Learning for Chemistry and Formulation: Generative Discovery, Data-Driven Modeling, and Autonomous Experimentation
Wednesday October 1, 2025
2:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Classroom 355
Examiners:
Newell Washburn
Hyung Kim
Olexandr Isayev
Robert Tilton
Congratulations to Kiran Ali from the McDonough Group - she is the recipient of an MCS Graduate Conference Funding Award. She will attend SETAC North America 46th Annual Meeting.
October 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Congratulations to Kiran Ali from the McDonough Group - she is the recipient of an MCS Graduate Conference Funding Award. She will attend SETAC North America 46th Annual Meeting.
Congratulations to Team Mitch, winners of the 2026 Chemger Games! May the bonds be ever in your favor! :)
An annual fall tradition, undergraduate students compete, making their way around Mellon Institute labs, to use clues and complete challenges.
An annual fall tradition, undergraduate students compete, making their way around Mellon Institute labs, to use clues and complete challenges.
September 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Congratulations to Team Mitch, winners of the 2026 Chemger Games! May the bonds be ever in your favor! :)
An annual fall tradition, undergraduate students compete, making their way around Mellon Institute labs, to use clues and complete challenges.
An annual fall tradition, undergraduate students compete, making their way around Mellon Institute labs, to use clues and complete challenges.
MCS Faculty Members Recognized With Chairs - including our very own @olexandr.bsky.social Olexandr Isayev! 🪅🪇🥳🥂
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
September 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
MCS Faculty Members Recognized With Chairs - including our very own @olexandr.bsky.social Olexandr Isayev! 🪅🪇🥳🥂
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve...
Chemistry Seminar: Christine M. Aikens, Kansas State University
Theoretical Investigations of the Optical Properties of Bare and Monolayer-Protected Nanoparticles
Host: Graduate Student Advisory Committee
Wed, September 10, 2025
4 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Theoretical Investigations of the Optical Properties of Bare and Monolayer-Protected Nanoparticles
Host: Graduate Student Advisory Committee
Wed, September 10, 2025
4 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
September 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Chemistry Seminar: Christine M. Aikens, Kansas State University
Theoretical Investigations of the Optical Properties of Bare and Monolayer-Protected Nanoparticles
Host: Graduate Student Advisory Committee
Wed, September 10, 2025
4 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Theoretical Investigations of the Optical Properties of Bare and Monolayer-Protected Nanoparticles
Host: Graduate Student Advisory Committee
Wed, September 10, 2025
4 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
We gathered today to celebrate Tim and his retirement from Chemistry - he has been at CMU for over 40 years, and with Chemistry over 30 of those. Thank you for your many years of service; we will miss you more than you can know!
September 3, 2025 at 10:33 PM
We gathered today to celebrate Tim and his retirement from Chemistry - he has been at CMU for over 40 years, and with Chemistry over 30 of those. Thank you for your many years of service; we will miss you more than you can know!
It was Welcome Back Picnic day! Thanks for all who came out to join us :)
August 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It was Welcome Back Picnic day! Thanks for all who came out to join us :)
Thesis Defense: David Hebert
Garcia-Bosch Research Group @isaacgb9.bsky.social
Copper Complexes with Bio-Inspired Redox-Active Ligands: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity
Monday August 18, 2025
1:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Classroom 448
Garcia-Bosch Research Group @isaacgb9.bsky.social
Copper Complexes with Bio-Inspired Redox-Active Ligands: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity
Monday August 18, 2025
1:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Classroom 448
August 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thesis Defense: David Hebert
Garcia-Bosch Research Group @isaacgb9.bsky.social
Copper Complexes with Bio-Inspired Redox-Active Ligands: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity
Monday August 18, 2025
1:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Classroom 448
Garcia-Bosch Research Group @isaacgb9.bsky.social
Copper Complexes with Bio-Inspired Redox-Active Ligands: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity
Monday August 18, 2025
1:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Classroom 448
Thesis Defense: Colin Martin
Armitage Research Group
Strategies for Sequence-Specific Targeting & Delivery of γPNA in Human Cellular Systems
Friday August 15, 2025
10:00 a.m.
Mellon Institute Social Room 328
Armitage Research Group
Strategies for Sequence-Specific Targeting & Delivery of γPNA in Human Cellular Systems
Friday August 15, 2025
10:00 a.m.
Mellon Institute Social Room 328
August 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Thesis Defense: Colin Martin
Armitage Research Group
Strategies for Sequence-Specific Targeting & Delivery of γPNA in Human Cellular Systems
Friday August 15, 2025
10:00 a.m.
Mellon Institute Social Room 328
Armitage Research Group
Strategies for Sequence-Specific Targeting & Delivery of γPNA in Human Cellular Systems
Friday August 15, 2025
10:00 a.m.
Mellon Institute Social Room 328
Our 2025 graduates! (a little late)
August 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Our 2025 graduates! (a little late)
Congrats to our Chemists who were awarded MCS Graduate Conference Funds!
Isabella Stranick- ACS Innovations in Chemistry
Savannah Talledo- Gordon Photochemistry Research Conference + Seminar
En Zheng- Gordon Research Conference on Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Oligonucleotides
Isabella Stranick- ACS Innovations in Chemistry
Savannah Talledo- Gordon Photochemistry Research Conference + Seminar
En Zheng- Gordon Research Conference on Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Oligonucleotides
July 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Congrats to our Chemists who were awarded MCS Graduate Conference Funds!
Isabella Stranick- ACS Innovations in Chemistry
Savannah Talledo- Gordon Photochemistry Research Conference + Seminar
En Zheng- Gordon Research Conference on Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Oligonucleotides
Isabella Stranick- ACS Innovations in Chemistry
Savannah Talledo- Gordon Photochemistry Research Conference + Seminar
En Zheng- Gordon Research Conference on Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Oligonucleotides
Thesis Defense: Amira Alakhdar
Washburn Research Group
De Novo Drug Design
July 21, 2025
10:00 a.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Washburn Research Group
De Novo Drug Design
July 21, 2025
10:00 a.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
July 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Thesis Defense: Amira Alakhdar
Washburn Research Group
De Novo Drug Design
July 21, 2025
10:00 a.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Washburn Research Group
De Novo Drug Design
July 21, 2025
10:00 a.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Thesis Defense
Lianshun (Evan) Luo
Jin Research Group
Atomic-Level Shape Control of Gold Nanoclusters: Synthesis, Absorption, and Near-Infrared Photoluminescence
Thursday July 17, 2025
2:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Lianshun (Evan) Luo
Jin Research Group
Atomic-Level Shape Control of Gold Nanoclusters: Synthesis, Absorption, and Near-Infrared Photoluminescence
Thursday July 17, 2025
2:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
July 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Thesis Defense
Lianshun (Evan) Luo
Jin Research Group
Atomic-Level Shape Control of Gold Nanoclusters: Synthesis, Absorption, and Near-Infrared Photoluminescence
Thursday July 17, 2025
2:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Lianshun (Evan) Luo
Jin Research Group
Atomic-Level Shape Control of Gold Nanoclusters: Synthesis, Absorption, and Near-Infrared Photoluminescence
Thursday July 17, 2025
2:00 p.m.
Mellon Institute Conference Room 348
Our final travel award winners for the season were selected as the recipients of the Wang Travel Award, congratulations to:
Xiaolei Hu from the Matyjaszewski Group
Sunipa Goswami from the Garcia Bosch Group @isaacgb9.bsky.social
Xiaolei Hu from the Matyjaszewski Group
Sunipa Goswami from the Garcia Bosch Group @isaacgb9.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Our final travel award winners for the season were selected as the recipients of the Wang Travel Award, congratulations to:
Xiaolei Hu from the Matyjaszewski Group
Sunipa Goswami from the Garcia Bosch Group @isaacgb9.bsky.social
Xiaolei Hu from the Matyjaszewski Group
Sunipa Goswami from the Garcia Bosch Group @isaacgb9.bsky.social