
Treating everyone: Martin O’Neill fellow aims to improve drug accessibility
Shaping challenges into opportunities is what chemistry Ph.D. student Abdikani Omar Farah has done nearly all of his life. After growing up in East Africa and experiencing firsthand what it meant to lack access to medicine, Farah now wants to use his career to fill this drug scarcity and give back to his communities.

Chemistry senior aims to make research ‘rich and accessible’
Honors college senior Alice Lulich graduates with three years of inorganic chemistry research experience on metal organic frameworks (MOFs), versatile compounds with diverse environmental and medical applications.

OSU research finds way to scrub carbon dioxide from factory emissions, make useful products
Carbon dioxide can be harvested from smokestacks and used to create commercially valuable chemicals thanks to a novel compound developed by a scientific collaboration led by Assistant Professor of Chemistry Kyriakos Stylianou.

Wei Kong, the new head of the Department of Chemistry
The College of Science is pleased to announce Wei Kong as the new head of the Department of Chemistry, effective February 1, 2022.

Outstanding incoming graduate students received ARCS Oregon scholarships
Five incoming graduate students were awarded 2021-2022 ARCS Foundation Oregon Chapter scholarships. This year, ARCS Oregon is supporting a record number of 79 scholars: 25 at OHSU, 44 at OSU and 10 at UO.

2020-21 College of Science awards: Celebrating excellence in research and administration
The College of Science celebrated research and administrative excellence at its virtual 2021 awards ceremony on April 22.

Chemistry student picked for DOE research program
A Ph.D. candidate in the OSU College of Science has been selected for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research program.

New grants to advance science that benefits humankind
How are devastating plant diseases spread? Is there a better way to predict HIV prevalence in a city? How can we detect toxic algae blooms before they occur? And which of the thousands of metal-organic frameworks can be used for storing and separating gases, like CO2 from industrial plants? Four faculty members received College of Science Research and Innovation Seed (SciRIS-II) awards this February to pursue answers to these questions over the course of the next year.
