Chemistry & Biochemistry News

2019 CSU Student Research Competition

CSULB Students win at the 2019 CSU Student Research Competition

The 33rd Annual CSU Student Research Competition was held at CSU FUllerton on April 26-27. All 23 CSU campuses were represented by over 200 graduate and undergraduate student groups. Only students who were endorsed by their campus may enter this competition, usually by a school-wide preliminary research competition. However, only 44 student groups could win 1st and 2nd place awards in each of the 22 divisions. CSULB won 4 awards in total: 3 first place and 1 second place. A talk …
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Finding Cancer’s Stress Level

Cancer is a complex multi-factorial disease with one of the most challenging aspects being cancer cells' exceptional ability to survive and thrive through stress. Assistant Professor Dr. Deepali Bhandari of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department hopes to find a way to destroy these cells, but first she needs to understand what makes them survive. See the complete …
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Nine CSULB Student Researchers Win 2018 ABRCMS Awards

From November 14 through 17 over sixty undergraduate and graduate student researchers from majors in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Physical and Biological Sciences, and Engineering competed in the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students 2018 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Students attend this conference to present their research, enhance professional development skills, explore graduate schools, and network. During the four-day conference, over 2,500 students from…
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A Renaissance in Analytical Chemistry

The analytical chemistry business is growing rapidly. Academia struggles to keep up in educating new generations of analytical chemists. In addition, university curricula are often outdated, failing to reflect the current needs of industry. Prof. Kasha Slowinska at CSULB is a part of the initiative lead by Prof. Thomas Wenzel (Bates College), funded by National Science Foundation, to improve the training of students in analytical chemistry and to contemporize methods of teaching analytical…