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  [### CCB launches new K–12 outreach partnership with Watertown High School

 ](/news/2026/06/ccb-launches-new-k-12-outreach-partnership-watertown-high-school) June 11, 2026 

 On Thursday, June 4, the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology’s Advanced Undergraduate Teaching team welcomed 12 AP-level students from Watertown High School for the inaugural visit of the new CCB Advanced Teaching Labs K–12 Outreach Program. The... 

 

 

   ![Watertown High School students visiting CCB, posing in front of the CCB building.](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/IMG_2809JPG.jpg?itok=3l0twkG1) 

 



 

 

   [### Sunny Shi honored with RSC Certificate of Undergraduate Excellence

 ](/news/2026/06/sunny-shi-honored-rsc-certificate-undergraduate-excellence) June 10, 2026 

 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... 

 

 

   ![Sunny Shi sitting in her Harvard graduation regalia.](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/Sunny%20Shi_5055.jpg?itok=wtJGkvKo) 

 



 

 

   [### Adam Cohen receives Genomic Medicines Fund award

 ](/news/2026/06/adam-cohen-receives-genomic-medicines-fund-award) June 08, 2026 

 The Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) is pleased to announce that awards have been made to five projects from the Harvard University Genomic Medicines Fund. The fund is intended to support of research involving genome editing that is useful... 

 

 

   ![Adam Cohen](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Adam%20Cohen-Memories%20PUBLIC.jpg?itok=7EBCJf1R) 

 



 

 

   [### Xiaowei Zhuang awarded the 2026 Dickson Prize in Medicine

 ](/news/2026/06/xiaowei-zhuang-awarded-2026-dickson-prize-medicine) June 05, 2026 

 Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been named the recipient of the 2026 Dickson Prize in Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s highest... 

 

 

   ![A photo of Xiaowei Zhuang in her lab](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/chemistry/files/101518_zhuang_011_h_2500.jpg?itok=6bduJW0-) 

 



 

 

   [### Profile: Environmental engineer inspired by community

 ](/news/2026/05/profile-environmental-engineer-inspired-community) May 29, 2026 

 Lizbeth Ibarra grew up next to an oil refinery, and every day she saw its impact on her community of Richmond in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her family and friends suffered from asthma and other respiratory illnesses. School days were sometimes cancelled... 

 

 

   ![Ibarra](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/SEAS%20Keutch%20Ibarra.png?itok=N0Zj8FAF) 

 



 

 

   [### Profile: First rule of a disease fighter: Be curious

 ](/news/2026/05/profile-first-rule-disease-fighter-be-curious) May 29, 2026 

 It was DNA replication that first captured Isaac Witte’s scientific imagination as a high school student in Overland Park, Kansas. “It’s this orchestration of so many different proteins and molecules that come together to do this core element of life,” he... 

 

 

   ![Isaac Witte](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Witte-David%20Liu-Broad.png?itok=_ht0FUpd) 

 



 

 

   [### Harvard undergraduates launch new ACS student chapter 

 ](/news/2026/05/harvard-undergraduates-launch-new-acs-student-chapter) May 26, 2026 

 Harvard undergraduates have officially launched the Harvard Undergraduate Student Chapter of the American Chemical Society (ACS), which seeks to bridge the gap between undergraduate chemists and the broader scientific community. The chapter was launched... 

 

 

   ![ACS Logo](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/ACS%20logo%20big.jpg?itok=6vIIP_KA) 

 



 

 

   [### Profile: The atlas maker of the microscopic world

 ](/news/2026/05/profile-atlas-maker-microscopic-world) May 29, 2026 

 Throughout the history of biology, numerous discoveries stemmed from observing living systems, but seeing the innerworkings of living organisms presents challenges. Xiaowei Zhuang, David B. Arnold Professor of Science, has spent her career developing... 

 

 

   ![MERFISH](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/MERFISH_whole%20mouse%20brain%20cell%20atlas_11485952504197301151_web.jpg?itok=EK3L4kll) 

 



 

 

   [### Eric Jacobsen Wins 2026 Cotton Medal

 ](/news/2026/04/eric-jacobsen-wins-2026-cotton-medal) April 20, 2026 

 Professor Eric Jacobsen, Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry, has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research named for one of the most honored faculty members in Texas A&amp;M University history. The... 

 

 

   ![A headshot of Eric Jacobsen](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/chemistry/files/eric_jacobsen_square.jpg?itok=7K99vHTQ) 

 



 

 

   [### Kang-Kuen Ni receives Brown Investigator award

 ](/news/2026/04/kang-kuen-ni-receives-brown-investigator-award) April 16, 2026 

 Kang-Kuen Ni, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, has been named to the 2026 class of Brown Investigators, a cohort of midcareer faculty recognized for bold, curiosity-driven research in physics and chemistry. Each... 

 

 

   ![kkn-quantum_leap.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/kkn-quantum_leap.jpg?itok=OBxtxijq) 

 



 

 

   [### Laura Kiessling (MIT) delivers Frank H. Westheimer Prize Prize Lecture

 ](/news/2026/03/laura-kiessling-mit-delivers-frank-h-westheimer-prize-prize-lecture) March 16, 2026 

 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... 

 

 

   ![Laura Kiessling](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/IMG_2125JPG.jpg?itok=tcgBjeoG) 

 



 

 

   [### Frank Neese (Max Planck) delivers George B. Kistiakowsky Lecture Prize Lecture

 ](/news/2026/03/frank-neese-max-planck-delivers-george-b-kistiakowsky-lecture-prize-lecture) March 09, 2026 

 On Thursday, March 5, Frank Neese, the Director of Molecular Theory and Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, delivered his George B. Kistiakowsky Lecture Prize Lecture, "How (and why) to Combine High-Level Spectroscopy with Quantum... 

 

 

   ![Joonho Lee](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Joonho-Kistia4.jpg?itok=oLduG_yR) 

 



 

 

  

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