Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University

10/27/2026

Congrats to first author Anita Houston Adams! The Walker Lab's paper, "Simulations of solvent effects on excited state dynamics of p-DAPA, a red single benzene-based fluorophore" is part of a special collection: Simulation of excited state dynamics in molecular and condensed-matter systems in The Journal of Chemical Physics.

All Authors: Anita Houston Adams, Mark A. Hix, and Alice R. Walker

Fluorescence-based techniques are widely used in basic science and medicine for detecting molecules and probing chemical reactions in vitro and in vivo. Red flu

10/27/2026

Happy Halloweek from Wayne State University’s Phi Lambda Upsilon Chapter 🎃

10/26/2026

Big thanks to Rudi Fasan, from the University of Texas at Dallas, for today’s Frontiers seminar on "Reprogramming metalloenzymes for new-to-nature chemistries.”

10/26/2026

Please join us in congratulating Alice Walker on receiving the Academy of Scholars Junior Faculty Award 💚💛

10/23/2026

Save the date! The Spooky Science Spectacular will be Friday, October 30th, 6 - 7:30 pm. The fun begins at 6 pm with the Spooky Chemistry Show in Science Hall, room 1117 with special presentations by members of the . Then stay for Science Trick or Treating - collect candy, conduct science experiments in Science Hall from 6:30 - 7:30 pm.

Wear costumes if you dare!
This event is fun for young scientists and families of all ages

10/23/2026

Happy Mole Day! Mole Day is celebrated from 6:02 am to 6:02 pm on 10/23, a nod to concept of the mole: 6.022 x 1023 or 1023. It represents Avogadro's Number (6.02 × 10²³), which is the number of atoms or molecules in one mole of a substance.

10/22/2026

Halloween edition 🎃 We had a lot of fun making this video. Shoutout to the WSU Chem family for joining in on the fun!

10/22/2026

Morgan Deal and Matt Allen collaborated with the Boros Lab at the University of Wisconsin on the research article, “Single Molecule Eu2+/3+ Complex Platform for Optical and Magnetic Resonance Imaging In Vivo” in the Journal American Chemical Society.

All Authors: Carter B. Rodgers, Morgan P. Deal, Leah C. Garman, Ilia A. Guzei, Matthew J. Allen, and Eszter Boros

Abstract. Lanthanide coordination complexes are harnessed for biological imaging due to their oxidative stability in aqueous media, favorable relaxometric

10/21/2026

Paul Zimmerman, PI of a computational chemistry group at the University of Michigan, gave today’s seminar on: "Precise Quantum Data and Tools for Time-Dependent States” at . Thanks, Dr. Zimmerman!

10/21/2026

Happy Warrior Wednesday! Kadiri is a PhD candidate in the Fehl lab focused on using chemical biology to investigate sugar-mediated signaling and develop tools to explore its links to metabolic diseases. He is developing next-generation GlycoID tools, including mitochondria-targeted variants.