“The American Chemical Society Preparing for Life After Graduate School Workshop” Department of Chemistry, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC The Chemistry Department at Wake Forest University is pleased to host a one-day comprehensive workshop entitled “Preparing For Life After Graduate School,” facilitated by the American Chemical Society, on Friday, April 11, 2014. An optional second…
“Christa Colyer is a professor of chemistry and the chair of the chemistry department. She earned a bachelor of science from Trent University in Peterborough, Canada and a masters from the University of Guelph. She received her Ph.D. from Queen’s University in Canada and has taught at Wake Forest since 2004.” Read Dr. Colyer’s profile…
The Chemistry Department welcomes 53 new chemistry majors who declared their major during the recent mass declaration period (or earlier this academic year). Thanks to new advisors Lindsay Comstock, Paul Jones, and Amanda Jones for their willingness to help us accommodate this large group of new students (perhaps the largest group of new majors that…
Congratulations to Rebecca Alexander and URECA (along with Linda Luvaas of Corporate & Foundation Relations and members of the Physics and Biology Departments) who contributed to the successful Beckman Scholars Program award. WFU is one of only 12 universities in the nation to receive this prestigious award, which will provide support for undergraduate research.
“Proteins are the worker bees of cells. They get rid of waste, transmit cellular signals and carry out the chemical reactions that enable the human body to function. Without proteins, cells would be unable to function, replicate, and die. This is not always a bad thing though, said Leuchter, a chemistry major who has been…
Holly Pan won 2nd Place Piano Competition, The Marc and Kirk Elvy Award, in the Giles-Harris Competitions in Musical Performance. Please join us in congratulating Holly for this great accomplishment. Read More at WFU News
Drones to add flying eye on our ecosystem: Wake Forest biology graduate student Max Messinger and biology professor Miles Silman are featured in the News & Observer. Their remote controlled helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft are used to create photo mosaics for ecological monitoring. Messinger and Marcus Wright, a Wake Forest chemistry lab manager, received funding from CEES and…
Want to become a member of a special group of about 80 students who have already decided to major in Chemistry? Chemistry Major declaration information and timeline can be found here: https://chemistry.wfu.edu/undergraduate/declaring-your-major
The website for the annual meeting of chairs from Ph.D.-granting chemistry departments in the southeastern region of the United States is now available. This year, the event is to be held April 11 & 12 on the beautiful campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. Please visit the link below for meeting information. https://chemistry.wfu.edu/2014SEChemChair/
Congratulations to Lindsay Comstock, whose WFU Pilot Research Grant entitled “Probing biological phosphorylation through cofactor mimicry” was funded for the period from Jan. 01 – Dec. 31, 2014. Congratulations also to Bruce King, whose proposal entitled “New reagents for tracking protein oxidation in cells by MS and imaging methods” was funded by the NIH/WFU Health…
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