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For decades, scores of paintings by 20th-century masters shared shelf space with family photos, books, and knickknacks in the Cambridge home of Arthur and Marny Solomon. Works by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Paul Cézanne hung on their walls. And in a...

It’s your typical biotech love story: A couple of eager Harvard students stumble upon a brilliant scientific breakthrough in anti-aging, drop out of school to pursue their dream, experience a fast and furious rise to fame before … well, we won’t give the...

The National Academy of the Sciences has published a biographical memoir of the late Professor Martin Karplus, who passed away on December 29, 2024. Karplus, the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, was a member of the National...

We are proud to present our fourth edition of CCB Magazine! Click here to access the online edition. Send us your comments and questions to the editor at yahya_chaudhry@fas.harvard.edu. In this fourth issue, "Rediscovery," we focus on acknowledging and...

Tobias Egle, S.M., '19, Ph.D. '22 (Friend Lab Alumnus): Had it not been for an impromptu chat at a networking event, Tobias Egle might never have considered studying in the United States, meaning he never would have found his way to the Harvard John A...

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...

By Colleen Walsh, via Harvard Gazette It was March of 2020 and Elijah Suh ’22 was at a San Diego hospital listening to a doctor discuss survival rates that had nothing to do with COVID-19. After the pandemic forced Harvard to close campus, Elijah had...

By Yahya Chaudhry, via Harvard Gazette Carolyn Bertozzi says she initially thought she would end up in med school, but when she got to Harvard she fell in love with organic chemistry. So much so, the 1988 graduate recently told the Harvard Crimson, that...

On Friday, September 15, CCB hosted its inaugarual Undergraduate Teaching Program awards ceremony to honor undergraduate teachers for the vital role they played in shaping the chemistry educational experience at Harvard. The event included short speeches...

CCB mourns the passing of alumnus Burton G. Christensen (A.M. '1954, Ph.D. '1956) who died on June 21 at the age of 93. As a chemist at Merck, Christensen played a transformational role in the development of modern pharmaceuticals. Christensen was...