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Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology hosted its third annual undergraduate research symposium, showcasing its undergraduates’ state-of-the-art research projects and honoring the historic contributions of CCB professor and renowned...

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology celebrated the successful completion of the third iteration of its Pathways program, an immersive and transformative initiative designed to provide high school students with hands-on laboratory experience...

Harvard's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology announces Daniel Kahne as the new chair of the department, effective July 1, 2024. Kahne is the Higgins Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at CCB, where he has taught since 2004. In his new...

By Yahya Chaudhry As a junior at Brighton High School in 2022, Roshaun Knight was unsure about his plans after graduation. An ambitious student, Knight had always wanted to go to college but had been putting off the application process, until he...

By Paul Massari, Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Lisa Awaitey is not a morning person. She was even less of one when she was in high school growing up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. But she—and the sleep-deprived mother who drove her to school...

The Harvard Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology has wrapped up its second annual High School Lab Skills summer intern program, providing an immersive learning experience for a group of local high school students to experience the world of cutting...

On June 1st, CCB kicked off the second annual High School Lab Skills Summer Research Program with “Match Day” at the Harvard Ed Portal in Allston. The afternoon highlighted the work of the six Brighton-Allston High School students enrolled in the program...

Shifting the experimental inorganic chemistry course to a virtual setting came with an unexpected bonus: the skills to write and publish papers in a peer-reviewed journal By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy Last summer, as the pandemic numbers crept up and up...

How historical quarantine-fueled inventions inspired this year’s remote experimental chemistry curriculum for undergraduates By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy What do “King Lear,” “Frankenstein,” and gravity have in common? Shakespeare wrote his masterpiece...

A hundred CCB community members joined the department’s first “virtual toast” to honor Emily Balskus By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy “We are here to celebrate Emily’s greatness.” That’s how Ted Betley, the Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical...