The Department of Chemistry at Villanova University

06/04/2026

Villanova University’s MS program in Chemistry is seeking enthusiastic applicants for a Fall 2026 start. Our thesis-track, two-year graduate program offers funding and tuition remission. Learn more about the program and ongoing research opportunities by reviewing the flyer below. Follow this link to start your application today. Contact our graduate program director, Dr. Deanna Zubris (deanna dot zubris at villanova dot edu) with any questions.

05/29/2026

05/29/2026

Congratulations to all our graduates! Sad to see all of you leave but great to know they are taking what they learned here to move on to accomplish great things in the field of Science or where ever their journeys take them!!! You will always be part of our chemistry and biochemistry community! Keep
in touch!

05/29/2026

Pope Leo message to our graduates to bless them in life!!!

05/12/2026

Congratulations Dr Wang! Read more about this work here:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5c01279

Quantum Tiles: An Interactive Chemistry Board Game to Strengthen Students’ Understanding of Quantum Numbers�

Katie A. Coscia, Jillian Fader, Yiben Wang, and Lauren A. Genova�

Journal of Chemical Education�DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.5c01279

05/11/2026

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05/07/2026

Earlier this week we got to hear the senior thesis work of six of our amazing students! Congratulations and you all did an amazing job!

🎉 Anthony DeAngelo,
Research Mentors: Drs. Scott Kassel & Jared Paul
Thesis Title: Tuning Photocatalytic Activity: Monometallic Ruthenium Complexes for Aromatic Alcohol Oxidation

🎉 Eva Grzech,
Research Mentor: Dr. Jen Palenchar
Thesis Title: Crowded conditions, borrowed genes, and unknown activity: A tale of three haloacid dehalogenases

🎉 Sophie Malik
Thesis Title: Synthesis and characterization of N,N-bidentate ligands and associated iron (II) complexes as diene polymerization catalysts
Research Mentor: Dr. Deanna Zubris

🎉 Kristi Pham
Research Mentor: Dr. Dan Kraut
Thesis Title: Investigating the unfolding ability of the proteasome in living cells

🎉 Abbigail Snyder
Research Mentors: Drs. Scott Kassel & Jared Paul
Thesis Title: Synthesis and characterization of copper (I) complexes of methyl substituted of tris(2-pyridyl)phosphine oxides

🎉 Catherine Tobin
Research Mentor: Dr. Bryan Eigenbrodt
Thesis Title: Effects of pH on lipid production in Pseudochloris wilhelmii: Biofuel generation

05/06/2026

Amaze amaze amaze! Check out the May flyer from Chemistry's Safety & Sustainability Committee :) Seriously, though, balance your centrifuge...

05/04/2026

Celebrated one of our prestigious alumnus, Anthony Silvestri, with a seminar in his name! This years Silvestri Speaker was Dr. Claudia Turro from The Ohio State University, and Editor of JACS. The Silvestri family has also generously supports our Undergraduate research efforts, over the years, and to celebrate this we had our first student poster session/reception hour after the talk!!

04/28/2026

Congratulations to Anthony DeAngelo ('26 Biochemistry)! Anthony was one of six students honored as Falvey Scholars for the 2026 academic year in recognition of his thesis, “Tuning Photocatalytic Activity: Monometallic Ruthenium Complexes for Aromatic Alcohol Oxidation.” Anthony carried out the work in the lab of mentors Drs. Jared Paul and Scott Kassel. Congratulations on this well-deserved honor!