Wendy Plump

The prestigious early-career fellowship is designed to encourage blue-sky thinking and to foster discoveries that improve lives and broaden our understanding of the universe.

Grants from the Provost and the Dean for Research will transform materials science, synthesis, catalysis, and chemical biology research across campus through the acquisition of a powerful new Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy tool and an extensive facility upgrade.

The discovery has vast implications for cancer treatment, showing that “starve the tumor” strategies are unlikely to be effective.

Marissa Weichman has been awarded a five-year Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation, the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty.

Quantum dots are fluorescent nanocrystals used in electronic applications from LED screens to solar panels. Princeton chemists have created a new protein that accelerates their synthesis and makes it more environmentally friendly.

Princeton Chemistry’s new two-month summer program draws faculty and students from moderate to small research institutions that serve historically underrepresented groups.

The 7th annual edition of the popular event showcased innovation and curiosity-driven research across disciplines at Princeton. The event drew three-minute video submissions from over 120 presenters on subjects as disparate as fish migration and traditional medicine healers.

MacMillan’s one-hour lecture offered words of solidarity, a primer on asymmetric organocatalysis, and heartfelt sentiment about the redemptive mission of science. Nearly 50 young scientists tuned in from besieged cities across Ukraine.

In honor of his parents, Chemistry Nobel Laureate David MacMillan has founded The May and Billy MacMillan Foundation to provide educational opportunities for financially disadvantaged students in Scotland.

Princeton University’s Paul Chirik and his research team have found the vital first step toward creating fertilizer without generating tons upon tons of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas. Their work could be the key to ending world food scarcity in a carbon-neutral way.

Princeton Research Day, the University’s celebration of research, scholarship and creative work, will be held in a virtual format on May 6.

A new partnership between the Princeton Catalysis Initiative (PCI) and Genentech is supporting research that could expand our knowledge of drug delivery and the efficacy of vaccines through research on a little-understood process.

Quantum chemist Alicia Magann is a compelling example of how interdisciplinary research works at Princeton. A rising fifth-year graduate student in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, her research nevertheless falls under the advisement of Herschel Rabitz, the Charles Phelps Smyth ’16 *17 Professor of Chemistry.

The DACA program has helped thousands of undocumented students finish their educations in the United States. Princeton University 2019 graduate alum Jesús Estrada, a driven young chemist, found in DACA the opportunity to complete his doctorate and realize his ambitions.

When threatened, bacteria produce a veritable army of molecular defenses. Drilling down into these defenses and the elicitors that trigger them has enabled scientists to discover antibiotics and antivirals, knowledge that might yet prove useful in the fight against the coronavirus. Armed with recent funding from the National Institutes of Health and Princeton University, Associate Professor of Chemistry Mohammad Seyedsayamdost is engaging that fight with an approach called the High-Throughput Elicitor Screening (HiTES). First introduced by the Seyedsayamdost lab in 2014, the technology enables researchers to screen, identify and characterize the natural products that are biosynthesized only when bacteria are under threat.

Princeton graduate students created Chem-STEM, a virtual, half-hour Q&A session that presents their academic lives in broad brush strokes for high school students with little idea of what graduate students do all day.

Responding to a challenge that tragic necessity has thrown to countless research labs around the world, a team from the Department of Chemistry will deploy its new cell mapping technology to shed light on the molecular interplay between COVID-19 and its host. The team is collaborating with Princeton molecular biologists who study viruses.

Princeton undergraduates demonstrate a new level of commitment to environmental conservation as they serve in research, volunteer and internship positions around the world. 

At this year's Innovation Forum at Princeton, Robert Pagels had three minutes to pitch his team's new method to cram several months' worth of medicine into a single injection.

In the four years since its inception, "Creativity, Innovation and Design" has pitted undergraduates against some of Princeton's most intractable problems — "wicked problems," as they are called, which are unsolvable but can be mitigated — by teaching them to create and design solutions from a new perspective.