Kahne

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) celebrated undergraduate researcher Sunny Shi on June 8, 2026, during the department's Summer Undergraduate Research Community Opening Social, where she was presented with the Royal Society of...

On Thursday, March 12 Laura Kiessling her Frank H. Westheimer Prize Lecture, "Chemical probes of bacterial glycans." Laura Kiessling earned a BS in Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Yale...

The Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) celebrated the launch of the Percy Lavon Julian Prize Lecture on March 3, with an address by the inaugural lecturer Paula Hammond, Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT...

Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Department celebrated the success of its first Foundational Undergraduate Experiences in the Laboratory (FUEL) program on Wednesday, August 7th, with a poster session and certificate presentation. The event...

On Tuesday, June 11, CCB hosted a Welcome Reception for its undergraduate summer researchers. The event took place from 5 PM to 6 PM in the Bauer Cafe, where attendees enjoyed pizza from Pinocchio's and socialized. Professor Dan Kahne kicked off the...

CCB has launched a new summer program designed to immerse pre-concentrator undergraduates in an intensive research and lab environment. The Foundational Undergraduate Experiences in the Laboratory (FUEL) program, part of the Harvard Summer Undergraduate...

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...

Harvard University chemist Daniel Kahne has spent much of his career studying the fundamentals of how bacteria thrive and evade attack. His lab has a special interest in gram-negative bacteria, which have an outer membrane that many antibiotics cannot...

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...

Escaping into science fiction, a biofertilizer's first on-campus trial, a protective goose, and a new cooking show Right before activity started flickering out one event, business, and campus at a time, Rebecca Stillo, laboratory administrator for junior...