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By Yahya Chaudhry, via Harvard Gazette What if emergency medical personnel could treat a desperately ill patient in need of oxygen with a simple injection instead of having to rely on mechanical ventilation or rush to get them onto a heart-lung bypass...

On Wednesday, August 30, CCB hosted the inaugural Harvard Chemistry Future Leaders Symposium (CFLS). The mission of this symposium was to raise awareness of research opportunities at Harvard/CCB among senior graduate students and highlight a new...

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...

CCB researchers have developed an environmentally friendly mechanism to enable solid-state cooling with two-dimensional perovskites. Their findings are described in a new study in Nature Communications. A summer dilemma worthy of Solomon: how to stay cool...

Leah DeFrancesco has taken on a new position within CCB as a Research Scholar Coordinator. Leah will be coordinating research appointments and acting as the primary administrative support system for postdoctoral fellows. Leah is very excited to be a...

CCB celebrated graduates from the Classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022 with graduation toasts during Commencement Week. The toasts were held in the Inner Courtyard of the Mallinckrodt building. See below for pictures. Note, this post will be updated with...

The Harvard Women in Chemistry (HWIC) student-led group has launched a new series spotlighting female scientists in the department. HWIC leadership is strongly invested in community building and outreach and this platform will help to highight exceptional...

Joint concentrator used diverse talents to express science in English By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Truelian Lee ’21 used to love playing Pandemic. Nowadays the strategic...

Alessandra Canta, a joint Chemistry and Astrophysics concentrator with a secondary field in MCB, has won the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize. Gregg Tucci, Director of Undergraduate Studies, recently shared this incredible news with the Department citing that...