Yale Chemistry

Over the past academic year, Grayson Hoy, Marisa Barilla, Brahmmi Patel, and more than 100 other Yale students took part in a pilot leadership development program that offered tools and skills training for engaging in constructive conversations. Read more bit.ly/41Ohe8I

We are hiring a Preceptor to support organic chemistry and general chemistry lecture and lab instruction, starting Aug 1. Learn how this role has launched the teaching careers of our past preceptors and apply (or share with networks—thx!): bit.ly/4u6RMaV.

Tonight at 7:30pm, Drs. @ranjitbindra and Seth Herzon @YaleChem @HerzonLab join #YaleCancerAnswers to discuss #braintumors and #glioblastoma, and share exciting progress in research. 🎧Listen live @wnpr 🔁Download via @ApplePodcasts 💻Listen later @YouTube @SmilowCancer @YaleMed @YNHH

Our Chemical and Biophysical Instrumentation Center is hiring a Staff Scientist to help keep our shared-instrument facilities running at peak performance. Interested (or know someone who is)? Apply and/or share to help us reach great candidates. bit.ly/47zVEs3

Scott Miller receiving the Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis from the @AmerChemSociety at the spring meeting in Atlanta. James Mayer, who also attended the awards ceremony, received the James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry.

Here’s to Mark Johnson, a leader in the field of physical chemistry! The Journal of Physical Chemistry has honored him with an entire issue dedicated to him, written by colleagues, collaborators, and former students. @ACSPublications" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bit.ly/4tn69rk@ACSPub…

Yale's Sidney Altman won the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering RNA could act as an enzyme, upending the belief that only proteins catalyze reactions. This discovery reshaped biology and continues to influence molecular genetics and gene editing bit.ly/4rDmXsE

Chemists have developed a novel, scalable approach to converting methane into methanol under mild, light-driven conditions. Learn about the research from Prof. Victor Batista’s lab, featuring postdoc Jan Paul Menzel bit.ly/3N1lPkh

While many of us watched the snow from indoors, some stepped out into it. Our Yale photographers headed into the wind and steady snowfall to document both the power and the beauty of this winter storm across New Haven. 📷: Gavin Susantio & David Liebowitz

Research from Elsa Yan’s lab, led by postdoc Ty Santiago, was recognized in a special articles collection for shedding light on interactions between drug molecules and water molecules surrounding DNA, offering insights for designing DNA-targeted drugs. bit.ly/4rx0rCC

Congratulations, Seth Herzon and David Spiegel, on receiving support from the Blavatnik Fund for Innovations, helping to get their ideas out of the lab and closer to patients and the marketplace. Learn more about their projects bit.ly/3ZJDmAm

Sharing science across traditional boundaries. Next Wednesday, February 25th. Open to the Yale West Campus community.

Congratulations, Anna Rullan Buxo ’22! The recent Yale College graduate and Johnson Lab alum is among 26 U.S. scholars selected for fully-funded postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge. Her research on renewable energy: bit.ly/4kM57Su

Hot off the press by Yale researchers...

Congratulations Nereida Hidalgo! @NereidaHidalgoR

Congratulations to 2026 #CottrellScholar Award recipient Tianyu Zhu @TianyuZhu_0903 @YaleChem for “Elucidating the Design Space of Photoactive Molecules Using Quantum-Chemistry-Informed Machine Learning.”

Congratulations, @TianyuZhu_0903 , on receiving a Cottrell Scholar Award!

Are you a recent college grad seeking research experience to place into a PhD program? A post-bac program at Yale, fully funded, can make you a competitive applicant. Work in labs conducting world-leading research. Apply by Feb 28 bit.ly/4aahhPZ

@demyanpro Pleasure to have you - thank you!

Yesterday I had the honor to give an invited research seminar at @YaleChem - thanks for hosting, Nilay! A huge highlight was spending time with THE Bob Crabtree after the seminar - a really kind, witty, yet towering figure in the organometallic chemistry community. 🧪☺️🥼

From death sentence to hope, advances in aza-sulfur chemistry enabled a breakthrough treatment for HIV-AIDS. The chiral reagent used in the process was developed by Prof. Jon Ellman’s lab. Synthetic chemistry drives drug discovery & life-saving treatments. bit.ly/4qV3cx2