Rakhi Rajan, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Oklahoma, has received a renewal grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to improve the accuracy of CRISPR-Cas technologies.
Yihan Shao, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma, has received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institutes of Health to develop computer modeling tools for studying the enzymes critical for CRISPR gene editing and biomedical imaging tools for cancer tumors.
The department congratulates Anna Lewis, Amer Abuabed, and Vignesh Anand on receiving the Summer 2024 Provost’s Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Fellowship.
OU faculty Rakhi Rajan, Len Thomas and Steven Foster hosted 11 AP Chemistry students and teacher Novah Klein from Chickasha High School. Dr. Rajan organized the all-day event to promote a future in STEM and encourage students to join our department in their future academic endeavors.
The department's annual award banquet was held in the Molly Shi Boren Ballroom on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. Undergraduate and graduate students, who were nominated by faculty members, were presented with awards based on their Graduate Teaching Assistant skills, and outstanding scholarly and research activity. The Society of Chemical and Biochemical Researchers, the department's student organization, also presented awards that were peer-voted.
The department would like to congratulate Laura Clifford, Ph. D., on her recent promotion to Associate Professor
Dr. Helen Zgurskaya has been elected as a new fellow to the class of 2024 American Academy of Microbiology. She is one of 65 accomplished scientists worldwide to be elected this year.
Dr. Ahsan has authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of proteomics, mass spectrometry-based method development, identification of potential biomarkers, toxicity, stress tolerance, and allergens.
University of Oklahoma chemist, Dr. George Richter-Addo was recently honored with the 2023 Oklahoma Chemist Award.
