Megan Hill, an assistant professor of chemistry at CSU who wants to learn how to make hydrogels easier for researchers to manipulate, was recently awarded $235,000 in grant funding through the Boettcher Foundation’s Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards program to do so.
A Colorado State University student has played a key role in securing new regulations to protect water quality in mobile home parks – after learning that elevated levels of lead were found in the water at the mobile home park where she lives.
The CSU-led team has devised a new chemical strategy that delivers specifically designed small molecules called universal dynamic crosslinkers into mixed plastic streams.
Writing in PNAS, the researchers showed that extremely thin films of molybdenum disulfide display unprecedented charge carrier properties that could someday drastically improve solar technologies.
Since the annual Celebrate! Colorado State has grown beyond the capacity to acknowledge all award recipients at a single event, the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President is holding a separate private luncheon this year to recognize its recipients for distinguished teaching and scholarship, faculty excellence, service, advising and leadership-related awards on behalf of the academic enterprise.
A synthetic platform created by CSU chemists paves the way for a future in which PHAs can take off in the marketplace as truly sustainable plastics.
Fifteen CSU students were recently recognized by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, one of the country’s top STEM fellowship programs.
The Colorado State University chapter of the National Academy of Inventors is hosting a seminar event — Meet the CSU Startup Founders — in April.
Akiko Nakamura, an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded a $10,000 mini-grant from the Office of Inclusive Excellence leadership team for her proposal titled, "Diversity and Inclusion Value Equity (D.I.V.E.)."
From drug discovery to materials engineering, the new oxonium could open up a whole new chapter in chemistry by design.