Chemistry & Biochemistry News
Finding Cancer’s Stress Level
Cancer is a complex multi-factorial disease with one of the most challenging aspects being cancer cells' exceptional ability to survive and thrive through stress. Assistant Professor Dr. Deepali Bhandari of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department hopes to find a way to destroy these cells, but first she needs to understand what makes them survive.
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Nine CSULB Student Researchers Win 2018 ABRCMS Awards
From November 14 through 17 over sixty undergraduate and graduate student researchers from majors in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Physical and Biological Sciences, and Engineering competed in the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Students attend this conference to present their research, enhance professional development skills, explore graduate schools, and network.
During the four-day conference, over 2,500 students from…
A Renaissance in Analytical Chemistry
The analytical chemistry business is growing rapidly. Academia struggles to keep up in educating new generations of analytical chemists. In addition, university curricula are often outdated, failing to reflect the current needs of industry. Prof. Kasha Slowinska at CSULB is a part of the initiative lead by Prof. Thomas Wenzel (Bates College), funded by National Science Foundation, to improve the training of students in analytical chemistry and to contemporize methods of teaching analytical…
