Prizes & Awards

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...

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...

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...

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&M University history. The...

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...

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...

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...

On Thursday, February 26, Gregory H. Robinson, the UGA Foundation Professor at the University of Georgia, delivered his Percy Lavon Julian Prize Lecture, "N-Heterocyclic Carbenes and Dithiolene Radicals: A Counterintuitive Main Group Chemistry Trek."...

On Thursday, February 19, Alex Shalek, the Pfizer-Laubach Career Development Associate Professor at MIT, delivered his E. Bright Wilson Prize Lecture, "Identifying & Counteracting the Impact of Environment Stresses on Tissue Dysfunction." Shalek is also...

Richard Liu has been awarded a 2025-27 George W. Merck Fellowship. The fellowship is for a period of two years, through the end of the academic year 2026-27, which comes with $600,000 in support for your research, paid out in equal installments of $300...