Brown University Department of Chemistry

Brown University Department of Chemistry Unlocking the secrets of molecules, shaping tomorrow's innovators
Collaboration • Community • Excellence • Innovation • Respect program and Sc.B. and A.B.

The department maintains world-class facilities that enable scientific inquiry almost without limitations. In many cases, faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students collaboratively pursue interdisciplinary research within the Chemistry Department. Our research areas include:

- 2-D materials, clusters, and nanoscience
- Solid-state chemistry and catalysis
- Alternative and

renewable energy
- Antibiotics and drug resistance
- Mechanisms of DNA damage and repair
- Organometallic, bioinorganic and bioorganic chemistry
- Structure and dynamics of reactive species
- Theory and simulation of chemical systems
- Ultrafast dynamics and advanced laser techniques

We offer a Ph.D. undergraduate concentrations. The Sc.B. program in Chemistry includes three tracks: Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Chemical Biology. We also offer Sc.B. degrees in Biochemistry (jointly with BioMed) and Chemical Physics (jointly with Physics).

The future is bright! 🌟 Brown Chemistry just welcomed 8 innovators to our graduate program💡. Breakfast and forms first! ...
09/04/2026

The future is bright! 🌟 Brown Chemistry just welcomed 8 innovators to our graduate program💡. Breakfast and forms first! 😀

Congratulations to all our Chemistry Undergraduate researchers who presented at the UTRA poster session.
08/10/2026

Congratulations to all our Chemistry Undergraduate researchers who presented at the UTRA poster session.

Watch Prof. Lai-Sheng Wang's interview about Boron Buckyballs!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7l6yt5Wm-QCongratulations...
06/26/2026

Watch Prof. Lai-Sheng Wang's interview about Boron Buckyballs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7l6yt5Wm-Q

Congratulations again to Prof. Wang and Wang Research Group!

Brady's full interview with Lai-Sheng Wang, who led the discovery o...

Today, Special Materials/Analytical/Organic Chemistry Seminar with Xiangqun Zeng • Univ. of Missouri, Columbia. "From Mo...
06/24/2026

Today, Special Materials/Analytical/Organic Chemistry Seminar with Xiangqun Zeng • Univ. of Missouri, Columbia. "From Molecular Design to Interface Chemistry for Next-Generation Real-time Sensors"

Not a seat left for the Chemistry Undergraduate Graduation Ceremony!
05/25/2026

Not a seat left for the Chemistry Undergraduate Graduation Ceremony!

Congratulations to Chemistry's PhDs, Tilas, Prateek, Julia, Meg, Timea, Zoey, Rongzhen, and Stephen!
05/25/2026

Congratulations to Chemistry's PhDs, Tilas, Prateek, Julia, Meg, Timea, Zoey, Rongzhen, and Stephen!

Congratulations to this year's Potter Prize winner, Timea Kolozsvary! (pictured with Timea's equally proud advisor, Prof...
05/25/2026

Congratulations to this year's Potter Prize winner, Timea Kolozsvary! (pictured with Timea's equally proud advisor, Prof. Ben McDonald!) The Potter Prize is awarded to the best chemistry PhD dissertation of the year.

Congratulations Meg!
05/22/2026

Congratulations Meg!

Huge congratulations to Meg Shieh for winning the prestigious Joukowsky Outstanding Dissertation Award in the physical sciences!

Meg, who receives her doctoral degree in chemistry this May, is being recognized for her groundbreaking dissertation: “Chemical Tool Development for Elucidating the Mechanistic Roles of Sulfane Sulfur in Redox Signaling.” Her research tackles a massive challenge in chemical biology: creating innovative tools to detect, deliver, and understand reactive sulfur species, molecules that are crucial to cellular signaling and human disease, but historically incredibly difficult to measure.

Next up, Meg is headed to Bethesda, Maryland this July to begin her role as an NIH IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow. We can't wait to see how she continues to shape the future of medicine and chemical biology!

Read more: https://graduateschool.brown.edu/news/2026-05-12/joukowsky-shieh

Brown University Department of Chemistry

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324 Brook Street, Box H
Providence, RI
02912

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