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Faculty Research EDI Award Recipient, Stephen Mezyk, Wants to Give Students a Voice
Several Students Win Awards for Biomedical Poster Presentations
CSUPERB Victory by Biochemistry Professor Deepali Bhandari and Students Miguel Palma Nishi Rauth
CSULB awarded $2.5M Keck Foundation grant to increase diversity in STEM
CNSM Students Win Big at 2021 Biomedical Research Conference
Electrifying Skin Cells
Drs. Derakhshan & Bernal Help Lead the New LEAP Program @ CSULB
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Department Highlights
Learn about our research-driven M.S. Chemistry and M.S. Biochemistry programs! Or consult with our graduate advisors for information on funding opportunities and details on how to apply.
We welcome Dr. Julie Wahlman as our newest faculty member. She will teach Organic Chemistry and conduct research in Organometallic chemistry. She joins us from the University of Utah as a former NIH Ruth Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellow.
Dr. Fangyuan Tian was awarded a prestigious NSF CAREER award for "Surface Chemistry of Crystalline Coordination Networks." It will be used to study electron transfer processes in 2D frameworks.
Dr. Elena Grintsevich was awarded a prestigious NSF CAREER award to support work in biochemistry on "Isoform-Dependent Redox Regulation of Actin."
Nishi Rauth (l) and Miguel Palma (r), both from Dr. Bhandari's (mid) lab, won the Glenn Nagel Undergraduate and the Don Eden Graduate Research Awards, respectively, at the 34th Annual CSUPERB symposium.
Biochemistry undergrad research students Nishi Rauth (l), Jordan Cook (mid), and Madeleine Phan (r) from the Bhandari, Schwans, and Dawson labs received best poster awards at the ABRCMS Virtual Conference 2021.
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is part of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
