Lebanon Valley College Chemistry Department

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween from the LVC Chemistry department! 🎃

(Sherma from Hollow Knight Silksong, a member of the Crypted Conservation Corps, a titration, Diego, Variable Girl and Constant Man)

10/02/2025

The annual homecoming lecture in the natural sciences is coming up next week. This year we will hear from Dr. Thomas Gordon ‘07, Sr. Product Development Manager at Adhesive Reasearch, Inc. All are invited to join us!

09/29/2025

Join us for seminar tomorrow at 11 am in N-G 312, where Dr. Dahlberg will share valuable information on preparing applications for internships, jobs and grad school.

09/25/2025

09/09/2025

Join us today in N-G 312!

Please join us next Tuesday, September 9th, for our first Chem Seminar of the semester to hear about students’ summer research experiences!

09/02/2025

Please join us next Tuesday, September 9th, for our first Chem Seminar of the semester to hear about students’ summer research experiences!

08/01/2025

Monday, August 4 at 1:30 p.m. at Cornwall Manor, Dr. Wally Patton, associate professor of chemistry, will be reviewing "White Pine: American History and the Tree that Made a Nation" by Andrew Vietze.

07/09/2025

Congratulations on this well deserved recognition Dr. Sterner!

Dr. Elizabeth Sterner, Professor of Chemistry at LVC, will receive the 2025 James Flack Norris Award at a banquet in November.

05/20/2025

Summer research has officially begun in Dr. Peelen’s lab. The working switch has been turned on. The switch needs to be turned on each summer in order for the reactions to work. 🧪

05/12/2025

Congratulations to our class of 2025 chem major graduates! SunJin Kim, Brendan Boyle, Matt Custer, Zach Morrow and Jackie Martin (not pictured). Best of luck to you in your future endeavors!

05/05/2025

In a review of polar reactions in Organic Chemistry, Dr. Peelen emphasizes that it is essential that each reaction has both a nucleophilic (electron rich) and an electrophilic (electron poor) reaction component. He compares this to picking an outfit each day by selecting one shirt and one pair of pants, illustrating this with items hypothetically found in his wardrobe. For the final exam, it looks like three LVC student-athletes raided his closet!

04/21/2025

Congrats, Maddi! Kudos on this incredible accomplishment! ⭐️

Maddisyn Behney ’26 was named the College’s third Goldwater Scholar by The Barry Goldwater Scholarship in Education Foundation.