Chem & Biochem
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Steven Castle Reappointed Director of Simmons Center for Cancer Research
Dean Grant Jensen of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences is pleased to announce the reappointment of Steven Castle as Director of the Simmons Center for Cancer Research. Castle has served as director since 2020, and his second term begins July 2023.
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NASA turns to BYU for critical Mars research ahead of human missions
A multidisciplinary team of BYU chemistry and engineering researchers has been tasked by NASA to develop a system to measure the size and electrical charge of Mars dust — a detail seemingly innocuous, yet critical to the success of human missions to the Red Planet.
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One PhD Candidate’s Path to BYU
PhD candidate Ashari Kannangara came to BYU from Sri Lanka to study how to make chemotherapy more effective. “I have seen a lot of people go through the pain of cancer,” she said. One of those was her uncle, who battled bladder cancer for several years. She witnessed not only her uncle’s suffering, but also how “their family went through this miserable pain.”
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Dr. David Dearden Reappointed as Chair of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Dean Gus Hart of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences has reappointed David Dearden as chair of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. He will serve in the position for another three years.
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BYU’s Milton Lee Earns Two Acclaimed Chemistry Awards
Brigham Young University’s emeritus chemistry professor, Milton Lee, was awarded the American Chemical Society National Award in Analytical Chemistry on April 2, 2019. Recently retired, Lee has published nearly 600 articles and given over 500 presentations throughout his career, which cumulatively represent enormous advancements in the field.
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Chemistry Department to Celebrate 150 years of the Periodic Table With New Periodic Tables in the Benson Science Building
Chemistry department to celebrate 150 years of the periodic table with new periodic tables in the Benson Science Building
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Radical SAMs, Microscopic Lassos, Protein Dynamite—on the Wild Frontier of Enzyme Engineering
If you’ve been on a prescription medication, you might have wondered why prescription drugs are so expensive.
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Speed Diagnosis for Sepsis
The current methods for detecting bacterial infection in the blood and whether those bacteria are resistant to common antibiotics can sometimes take an entire day—which is more time than a patient with sepsis can afford.
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Daniel Austin Receives International Mass Spectrometry Award
Chemistry professor Daniel Austin recently received a prestigious international award for his developments in mass spectrometry. Click here to read more.
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Scorpions: What’s not to Love?
For chemistry professor Jeffrey Macedone, studying scorpions “turned this hairy, creepy little creature into a thing of beauty made by a Creator.” BYU Magazine’s new YouTube series, “A Thing of Beauty,” features BYU professors and personalities sharing something they consider beautiful. Click here to watch the video of BYU chemistry professor Jeffrey Macedone as he shares the beauty of scorpions.
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Chevron Phillips Chemical teams up with BYU researchers to speed up catalyst development
Chemical companies are currently racing to develop new catalysts that efficiently produce key commodity chemicals used in the manufacture of plastics. Dr. Daniel Ess and his graduate students developed a computer model to identify new catalysts. Read more about it at BYU News.
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Izatt Christensen Lecture Energy: Changing for the Better
Dr. Franklin (Lynn) Orr spoke at the 10th Annual Reed M. Izatt and James J. Christensen lecture on October 19, 2017. His topic was “The Global Energy Transformation: Where Do We Stand?”
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Education in Zion Gallery Puts ‘Famous Mormon Scientists’ on Display
Did you know the first female state senator in the United States was a Mormon suffragist doctor who ran against her polygamist husband for a legislative seat? As a Utah senator, Martha Hughes Cannon used her scientific and medical background to author early sanitation laws and found the State Board of Health.
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Helping Young Chemists See Themselves—and Their Cells—in the Lab
The 13- and 14-year-olds at Biochem Camp, a new camp for young scientists put on by the Chemistry Department, got to see something new during their three days of experiments: the chemicals in their own bodies.
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Chemistry Rocks! October 23-28 marks National Chemistry week
While chemistry is important every day of the year, October 23-28 marks National Chemistry Week. The theme for this year’s National Chemistry Week is “Chemistry Rocks!” and will be celebrated across campus with events put on by the Central Utah section of the American Chemical Society.
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Prom and Pumping Iron Makes Biochemical Research Look Like High School
Managing iron in the body is a lot like chaperoning a high school dance, according to Dr. Richard Watt.
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Personal Progress to PhD and Beyond
Dr. Pam Van Ry carries pictures of children in her wallet. The thing is, the kids aren’t hers.
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Professors 3D-print First Truly Microfluidic “Lab on a Chip” Device
Researchers at BYU are the first to 3D-print a viable microfluidic device small enough to be effective at a scale much less than 100 micrometers. Microfluidic devices are tiny chips that can sort out disease biomarkers, cells and other small structures in samples like blood by using microscopic channels incorporated into the devices.
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