Chemistry Ph.D. student Solomon Attionu traveled thousands of miles from his home country in Africa to study the viral progression of hepatitis B and how to stop it.
More than 600 students are graduating from CMNS with undergraduate, graduate or professional studies degrees.
They are among 162 new Fellows who collectively hold over 4,600 U.S. patents.
Co-founded by Chemistry and Biochemistry’s Sang Bok Lee, the company received a Phase 1 Microbattery Design Prize from the U.S. Department of Energy.
A team of researchers including Chemistry and Biochemistry’s YuHuang Wang makes a breakthrough discovery for cancer diagnostics.
Friedman, who joined UMD in 2007, shares his experiences and insights in his role.
Honors & Awards (received since Jul 1, 2023)
184 students graduated from the college in August 2023.
A visitor to the lab that Lisa Bird (B.S. ’89, chemistry; M.S. ’98, food science) runs at McCormick and Co. experiences a moment of aromatic disorientation; it smells like a vast banquet—a ginger- and garlic-infused stir fry, a coconut cookie, a bratwurst—but all this alchemy is contained in several glass vials lined up on the kitchen-like counter.
The chemistry and biochemistry professor will lead a new project supported by a $500,000 grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.