Bates College Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

08/16/2023

We are super excited to welcome Ida Piedmonte as a new tenure track Assistant Professor in our department! Ida's interests lie at the intersection of chemistry, environmental science, industry and public policy. She will teach separation science, general chemistry and environmental chemistry. Her research will focus on the speciation and stability of molten salt energy systems and the fate and transport of metal pollutants in the environment. Welcome Ida!!

08/29/2022

Dana Chemistry is now just Dana, and houses general chemistry and biology labs, an electronics lab, new classrooms and lots of great study space. You would not recognize it!

03/02/2022

We would like to take a moment to congratulate Associate Professor Andrew Kennedy on receiving tenure! Congratulations, Andrew!

Andrew Kennedy, Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry

06/14/2021

Dana Chemistry is moving to Bonney Science Center!

05/27/2021

We would like to congratulate our graduating seniors and share some pictures from our annual senior banquet held outside on the beautiful historic quad.

01/22/2021

Don’t miss Jen Koviach Côté’s Kroepsch Award Talk!

Wednesday, January 27, 2021, 4:30pm ET

Pre-registration required: https://bates.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrc-CqqDstHdDDJ_c-W1uwg3rPYTFTGmM5

07/30/2020

Monique Brown '07 was recently spotlighted in a discussion of racial disparities in COVID-19 infection and outcome.

When Monique Brown looks at population health, the epidemiologist considers conditions that can make it better — and worse — for different groups of people. When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown says, there are myriad pre-existing conditions that make the virus far worse for African Amer...

07/30/2020

Can we look at the memories of mice? Thanks to neuroscience, it appears the answer is yes.

Chemistry major Gabriele Gucagaite '21 of Kaunas, Lithuania, takes part in funded Bates research that sounds like science fiction.⁣
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She's creating slides and images that show, through fluorescent imaging of brain proteins, actual mouse memories, such as a specific taste or smell.⁣
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More astonishing: The neuroscience research she's doing, with Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Andrew Kennedy,⁣ also involves altering or enhancing the memories that a mouse has.⁣
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”This is what neuroscience looks like now,” says Kennedy. “Things like memory, emotion, thoughts — human experiences that have always seemed very abstract — we now are finding the physical underpinnings.”⁣
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A rising senior, Gucagaite is one of several students who have been living on campus due to the pandemic.⁣
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(Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)

06/20/2020

Congratulations, Tom!

We're celebrating Thomas J. Wenzel from Bates College, the 2020 winner of the George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education for promoting the value of undergraduate research and the inclusion of collaborative learning and project-based laboratory experiences in the undergraduate curriculum. See all 2020 winners at http://ow.ly/ZJee50AcyRo

06/05/2020

So proud of our majors who independently started a summer journal club in the midst of a pandemic. Today was the inaugural discussion, and they gave most graduate students a run for their money, discussing Carolyn Bertozzi's paper, "Precision Glycocalyx Editing as a Strategy for Cancer Immunotherapy"

05/31/2020

Congratulations class of 2020!

05/14/2020

Due to the unusual circumstances, we held our usual end of year reception virtually this year. It was so great to see student and faculty faces together again! Congratulations and good luck to our seniors, and congratulations to all of our award winners!

Scott Peura student athlete in chemistry or biochemistry: Amy Duren
Maine ACS award: Kyle Crans
ACS Analytical award: Alexander Berzansky
ACS Inorganic award: Joyce Gong
ACS Organic award: Mitch Willsey
ACS Physical Chemistry award: Sam Britner
Amadou Cisse Award for research in Chemistry: Robyn Moss
Excellence in research in Biochemistry: Lillian Chang and Meg Robinson
Academic excellence in chemistry: Erni Whitaker
Academic excellence in biochemistry: Matthew Brennan
Mary Brushwein award for service in chemistry: Oriana LoCicero
Mary Brushwein award for service in biochemistry: Louisa Gale