Chem & Biochem
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BYU Alum Fights Brain Cancer One Cell at a Time
He didn’t know the first thing about research when he was a freshman at BYU. Now, Dr. Bob Carter oversees brain tumor research at a university hospital and makes strides in brain cancer treatment.
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BYU Chemists Invent Faster and Cheaper Way to Measure Hepcidin
The peptide hormone hepcidin-25 is found in patients with chronic inflammation. It cuts off the iron supply to the blood and bone marrow and thus causes patients to become anemic, according to Dr. Richard Watt of the BYU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
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Open Lab Day Shows Students the Magic of Chemistry
Click. Clink. Clack. In one lab, elementary students crushed spinach leaves with mortars and pestles to extract the green chlorophyll; in another lab, high school students stirred precipitates in small beakers.
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Running to Support Cancer Research
Parents pushing strollers, runners donning short shorts, BYU basketball players dressed as Batman, and countless others all gathered at the starting line of the annual Rex Lee Run on March 11, 2017.
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Izatt-Christensen Lecture: The Greater Good of Mass Spectrometry
Dr. R. Graham Cooks presented the ninth annual Reed M. Izatt and James J. Christensen Lecture at BYU with two presentations on mass spectrometry.
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CPMS Student Wins 3MT People’s Choice Award
Biochemistry graduate student Diana Saavedra won the People’s Choice Award for the 3MT university-wide competition on March 9, 2017, in the BYU Varsity Theatre.
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Young Scientists Invited to Open Lab Day
Children are our future, and BYU is looking to make that future as bright as possible by giving young students the opportunity to conduct their own captivating chemistry experiments at Open Lab Day!
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Lab on a Chip Designed to Minimize Preterm Births
In the United States alone, a half million babies are born preterm; worldwide, the number is an estimated 15 million. Complications associated with preterm birth are the no. 1 cause of death for children under 5, and those who live often face a range of health problems.
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CPMS Alum Cui Tao Wins Presidential Award
Cui Tao’s love for both biology and computer science has led to more than an accomplished research and teaching career—it has earned her one of Barack Obama’s final awards before the former president left office in January.
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World-Renowned Chemist Graham Cooks Will Speak at Izatt-Christensen Lecture
“It’s hard to say who’s the top mass spectrometrist in the world, but it’s probably Graham Cooks,” BYU chemistry professor David Dearden said.
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Cancer research students are finding more discoveries due to the Rex Lee Run
BYU graduate Michelle Townsend will never forget watching her healthy, tennis-playing grandmother slowly weaken and pass away from cancer. The subsequent diagnosis of her mother and her grandfather motivated Townsend to enter the cancer research field and discover a cure that will ease, and someday lift, the fight that all patients must go through.
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How Eating Less Can Slow the Aging Process
There’s a multi-billion-dollar industry devoted to products that fight signs of aging, but moisturizers only go skin deep. Aging occurs deeper — at a cellular level — and scientists have found that eating less can slow this cellular process.
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NASA flight surgeon researches effects of space travel on human body
Blake Chamberlain has one of the most unique jobs in the solar system.
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BYU chemistry professor trains police on critical thinking
Provo Police Chief John King never planned on partnering with a chemistry professor to teach critical thinking courses. That is, until BYU’s Brian Woodfield approached King and asked if Woodfield could train Provo City Police.
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Chemistry “Magicians” Wow Local Audiences
Dozens of anxious toddlers, tweens, teenagers, and parents waited eagerly outside of room W111 of the Ezra Taft Benson Building to attend one of the several magic shows held annually by BYU’s Department of Chemistry during National Chemistry Week, which was held October 17 through October 21, 2016.
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BYU Faculty and Students Bridge the Gap Between Magic and Science
BYU’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry will celebrate National Chemistry Week by hosting “magic shows” on BYU campus Oct. 17-21. And while most magic shows are all about sleight of hand, these shows don’t need to rely on diversions to astound.
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BYU Joins Worldwide Research Fight Against HIV/AIDS
BYU is teaming up with George Washington University and other institutions around the world to fight HIV/AIDS. George Washington University received a $28 million Martin Delaney Collaboratory Grant to create a new HIV cure strategy.
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New Chair Announced for Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dr. David Dearden has accepted an appointment to replace Greg Burton as the Chair of the BYU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Dearden has named Barry Willardson and Roger Harrison as his Associate Chairs, replacing Adam Woolley and Steven Wood.
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