Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University

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Andrew England made the Chair’s Honor List! Congratulations! He is now a pre-med student at Wayne State University.
09/10/2026

Andrew England made the Chair’s Honor List! Congratulations! He is now a pre-med student at Wayne State University.

Congrats to first author, Kjersti Oberle-Cobb! Here the Bour Lab reports on the use of olefin metathesis polymerization ...
09/10/2026

Congrats to first author, Kjersti Oberle-Cobb! Here the Bour Lab reports on the use of olefin metathesis polymerization to make a series of highly microporous organic polymers with high organic vapour uptake capacities. The article, “Catalytic synthesis of highly microporous polymers via olefin metathesis for organic vapour sorption” can be read in ChemComm.

All Authors: Kjersti G. Oberle-Cobb, Fathima R. Abdul Rauf, Malsha A. Hettiarachchi, and James Bour

Congratulations to PI Hien Nguyen and the Lumigen Instrument Center (LIC) team - Judy Westrick, Cassie Ward, and Dennis ...
09/09/2026

Congratulations to PI Hien Nguyen and the Lumigen Instrument Center (LIC) team - Judy Westrick, Cassie Ward, and Dennis Anderson on receiving $1.46M from the National Institute of Health S10 Instrumentation Grant Program to purchase a Bruker 600 MHz NMR spectrometer with N2 Prodigy BBO probe. This instrument will support several biomedical research projects relying on high-quality NMR data for structure confirmation, reaction monitoring, compound quantification, and biological interpretation. This award will also enable the addition of a metabolomics NMR core within LIC, expanding support for biomarker discovery, metabolite profiling, and collaborative health-related research across campus.

Andrea Van Engen-Ver Beek and Livia Philip are recipients of the 2026 Organic Division Excellence in Graduate Research &...
09/08/2026

Andrea Van Engen-Ver Beek and Livia Philip are recipients of the 2026 Organic Division Excellence in Graduate Research & Teaching Award. Congratulations!

Thanks to Yan Yan, from Wayne State’s Biomedical Engineering Department, for kicking off our fall lecture series with hi...
09/04/2026

Thanks to Yan Yan, from Wayne State’s Biomedical Engineering Department, for kicking off our fall lecture series with his seminar on theranostics.

wrap up! ⬇️Buddhika Abeysekara (Groysman Lab) presented her PhD research as an oral presentation at the ACS Fall 2026 ...
09/04/2026

wrap up! ⬇️
Buddhika Abeysekara (Groysman Lab) presented her PhD research as an oral presentation at the ACS Fall 2026 Meeting in Chicago, through the ACS Division of Catalysis Science & Technology (CATL).

Himanshu Yadav (Brock Lab) received the Excellence and Leadership in Science Outreach and Engagement Award from the American Chemical Society and had the opportunity to meet and hear lectures from Chemistry Nobel Laureates Prof. Stan Whittingham.

Livia Philip (Nguyen Lab) gave a research talk and her Nguyen lab-mate Felix Chukwu took part in a poster session.

Jayod Vishwaka (Chow Group) presented his research at ACS Fall 2026, focused on understanding the structural and functional effects of the antimicrobial peptide Oncocin and its interactions with its biological target.

Ruwandhi Jayasundara (Groysman Lab) at her first ACS national meeting! She presented her published as a co-first author.

Kailyn K. Fields (Allen Group) was recognized by the American Chemical Society as a Leader in Research Safety!

Festifall Recap!! Thank you to everyone who stopped by and visited with our WSU ACS and WSU NOBCChE Chapters! We hope to...
09/03/2026

Festifall Recap!! Thank you to everyone who stopped by and visited with our WSU ACS and WSU NOBCChE Chapters! We hope to see you at our future events on campus as well!

Congrats to Michael Blamoun for making the Chair’s Honor List!
09/03/2026

Congrats to Michael Blamoun for making the Chair’s Honor List!

April Sweet Tapayan, of the Nguyen Lab, received the Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Merck Research Award at the meetin...
09/02/2026

April Sweet Tapayan, of the Nguyen Lab, received the Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Merck Research Award at the meeting. This recognition highlights her outstanding contributions to the field of chemistry and chemical biology and her commitment to advancing research in the sciences. April presented her research: “Leveraging cell-curface sugar mimicry to target and understand tau–heparanase crosstalk in Alzheimer’s disease” at the symposium.

April was recognized alongside other award recipients: Sara Nixon, Ana Victoria Serna, Komal NA, Julia McAfee, Dani Schultz, Lucy Huffman, Laura Rodriguez, and Nhu Quach. Congratulations to everyone!

09/01/2026

The Groysman Lab’s latest work on the bioinorganic system - Mo-Cu CODH: “Bioinspired cooperative bimetallic activation of an isocyanide by a Cu(i)–Mo(vi) system” is ready to read in ChemComm.

All Authors: Buddhika Abeysekara, Shehan Jayawardena, Teo Melnyczuk-Gould, Cassandra Ward, Stanislav Gelman-Tropp, Dmitri Gelman, Richard L. Lord (Grand Valley State University), and Stas Groysman

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