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  • A side-profile view of a young man wearing a white lab coat, clear safety glasses, and a backward baseball cap as he works carefully inside a sealed glove box in a chemistry lab environment surrounded by chemical bottles and equipment.
    UMD Junior Deven Battish Blends Chemistry and Venture Capital
    05 November 2026

    The chemistry major brings lessons and expertise from the lab and classroom to his work evaluating promising new companies.

  • A male researcher wearing a white coat, safety glasses, and blue gloves examines a sample tube filled with dark liquid in a chemistry laboratory. Foreground rows of capped test tubes are softly blurred.
    From Lacrosse Long Sticks to the Chemistry of Nanorods
    04 November 2026

    Chemistry Ph.D. candidate Jordan Wilson’s research on the optics of nanomaterials has applications in anti-counterfeiting, biosensors and more.

  • Natalie Shin pipetting
    Connecting Classroom Chemistry to Care - Senior Natalie Shin pursues her passion for chemistry and public health
    03 November 2026

    UMD senior Natalie Shin pursues her passion for chemistry and public health by investigating the molecular machinery that helps viruses infect cells.

  • Janice Reutt-Robey and Steven Robey
    Professor Emerita Janice Reutt-Robey Creates Faculty Support Fund in Chemistry and Biochemistry
    29 October 2026

    Reutt-Robey and her husband are providing flexible support to a faculty member with an exemplary research record and commitment to mentoring graduate students.

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    Microscopes and Metalheads
    15 October 2026

    Biochemistry major Suchitra Arun spends her days decoding plant and human diseases and her nights leading a community of heavy metal music fans.

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    Professor Pratyush Tiwary Joins Team to Predict and Intervene in Harmful Protein Changes Before Disease Begins
    12 October 2026

    Pratyush Tiwary is a member of an ARPA-H consortium led by Georgetown and the Buck Institute that was awarded up to $51.7 million to study misfolding proteins implicated in neurodegenerative diseases and cancer.

  • Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture Series
    John Fourkas (2026 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture Series) : Light Entertainment: How We Make Photons Work For Us
    05 October 2026
  • Krisztina Zsebo in a blue jacket
    Biotech executive Krisztina Zsebo (B.S. ’77, biochemistry) is Pushing the Boundaries of Therapeutic Possibility
    02 October 2026

    Biotech executive Krisztina Zsebo (B.S. ’77, biochemistry) has spent more than four decades working at the forefront of therapeutic discovery, bringing life-changing drugs to the patients who need them. 

  • Saul Flores and Holly Hemesath portraits.
    Biochemistry Ph.D. Saúl Flores and Holly Hemesath Explore the Depths of the Microbiome
    29 September 2026

    Saúl Flores and Holly Hemesath are participating in the University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Microbiome Sciences’ seven-month student fellowship program.

  • Sign at the entrance to an NSF workshop on using AI in chemistry.
    U.S. National Science Foundation workshop Lead Organizer Tiwary is Building Better AI for Chemistry
    28 September 2026

    A U.S. National Science Foundation workshop hosted by the University of Maryland began charting a roadmap for developing chemistry-specific artificial intelligence tools to advance scientific research and discovery.

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