Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University

06/05/2026

Charles Winter was recognized at the 2026 Excellence in Research and Innovation Recognition event last month held by Wayne State University's Division of Research & Innovation. He is among six faculty members recognized for reaching significant patent milestones (15 patents!) reflecting years of innovation and contributions to research, technology development and commercialization. Congratulations to Dr. Winter and all of the faculty members recognized for their scholarly achievements!

06/04/2026

Congrats to chemistry undergrads Mia Nour and Emily Nour! Mia is the recipient of a Chemistry Undergraduate Scholarship and Emily made the Chair’s Honor List.

06/04/2026

The Fehl Lab is excited to announce the renewal of NIH R35 grant "Spatiotemporal tools to interrogate O-GlcNAc functions in metabolic signaling and disease." O-GlcNAc is a glucose sensor that cells use to control their metabolism. The work supported by this $2.5 M award develops new chemical tools that are designed to tell us: What levels of sugars are unhealthy? How do cells control their sugar metabolism? And most importantly, what can we do about treating unhealthy sugar levels in metabolic disease?

06/03/2026

Happy Warrior Wednesday!

06/01/2026

Meet the 2026 Schaap-Rumble Graduate Research Fellows: (front row) Valentine Nwanelo, Moses Adeyemo, Oseni Kadiri, Solomon Effah, Sachini W. Sivirathne, (back row) Clementinah Oladun, Elle Lewandowski, Elliot Furr, and John Izang. Congratulations, all 💚 💛

05/29/2026

A Departmental Citation for Excellence in Teaching Services was awarded to Fatima Abla. Congratulations!

05/28/2026

Construction of the Chemistry Building circa 1960s. This is decades before the building was remodeled or the addition of the atrium.

05/27/2026

Please join us in welcoming Tom Chowdhury to Wayne State University. Tom will be joining the university an assistant professor this fall in the departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at WSU.

Welcome Tom!

05/26/2026

Publication Alert 🚨

“Resolving Energy Transfer Dynamics at the Quantum Dot Gels–Perylene Diimide Hybrid Interface” in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters is a collaboration between the Brock and Liu Labs at with Boston College’s Huang Lab. The results of this research highlight the potential of QD gels as a tunable framework for integrating molecular acceptors with quantum-confined materials.

All Authors: Alexander J. King, Fatima Innasa Mohamed Saheed, Moses Adeyemo, Vinicius Alevato, Daniel Kennedy, Rongyu Zhang, Tomoya Ozaki, Liangji Chen, Atish Ghosh, Zhenfei Liu, Stephanie Brock, and Jier Huang

Semiconductor–molecular hybrids provide a platform for controlling excited-state transfer in photocatalysis and optoelectronics. While quantum dots (QDs) are promising semiconductors, they are often capped with surface ligands that limit accessibility and hinder coupling with molecular species. QD...

05/26/2026

The 2026 Chemistry Undergraduate Scholarship was awarded to Adam Andrews, Veer Singh, Mia Nour, Brooke Kavanaugh, and Noah Pham (not pictured). Congratulations, all!