Awards & Honors

Department Spring Celebration of Students

Join us for our annual alumni speaker and student award presentations.

March 28, 2017

Please save the date for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Spring Celebration of Students.

We have the pleasure to welcome back Dr. Erica Smith (DU Class of 1996). Dr. Smith is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Kosak Lab in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Come hear about her scientific adventures post Denison and her current work.

We will celebrate all graduating seniors. Here’s to the class of 2017!
Department awards, prizes and scholarships from all classes will be awarded during the festivities.

Mark your calendar to join faculty and fellow majors in Ebaugh for this celebration.

Posted date: March 28, 2017

Spotlights

Student with faculty member

Award-winning Summer Scholars program builds tomorrow’s researchers

Each summer, endowed funds support 120 to 140 students pursuing research under the supervision of a faculty member for up to 10 weeks

Heaven Wade '21 outside Ebaugh Laboratories

Organic Matters

Heaven Wade ‘21 always knew she wanted to go into the medical field to help people — but she is “not a fan of blood,” so she focused on research.

Hanada Al-Masri, Mohamed El-Sayed, Hannah Bennet

Building Public Speaking Skills

Hannah Bennet ’21 and Mohamed El-Sayed ’20 get great public speaking experience after a course that features a lot of listening.

Madeline Van Winkle and Dr. Reczek

How We Learn

Materials (Chemistry, that is) Girl

Maddie Van Winkle ’18 spun her love of materials chemistry into a paper published in an esteemed science journal — & an NSF post-graduate fellowship

senior majors

How We Learn

Hats (or shall we say Goggles) Off to Our Majors!

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry celebrates student excellence.

Reczek, Edwards, Dillenburger '17

How We Learn

Creating New Scientists

Research can be handed down from a graduating senior to a student in the next class year, bringing both continuity and creativity.

Dee Salukombo

Where We Go

Our Man in Rio

Dee Salukombo '12 represented his his homeland, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as his alma mater, in Brazil's Summer Olympics.

Denison students

How We Learn

Concrete Chemistry through 3D Printing

Three Chemistry and Biochemistry majors joined last spring's Denison Seminar "3D Printing - From Abstract to the Concrete."

Student 1 working in the lab

How We Learn

Full Swing into Summer Research

The labs of Ebaugh Laboratories are buzzing with summer student researchers.

preparing-for-conferences

How We Learn

Ready for national conferences

Chemistry professor Joe Reczek share tips on preparing for national conferences.

Curtis Plowgian

Where We Go

How do dogs bark in France?

Curtis Plowgian '06 took an unlikely route to a career in veterinary medicine

Kareha Agesa '17 is looking for better ways to build solar panels

How We Learn

Harnessing the summer sun

Kareha Agesa '17 is looking for better ways to build solar panels.

Andrea Karl 2014

Where We Go

Breaking the tape

Andrea Karl '14 wins her second marathon and becomes a St. Louis star.

Michelle Howell

Where We Go

Swimming outside the lanes

National swimming champion Michelle Howell '15 isn't leaving her community service work behind after graduation.

Chem & Biochem summer research

How We Learn

Summers are anything but quiet

While the classrooms of Ebaugh Laboratories are quiet each summer, research labs are buzzing with faculty-student collaboration on original research.

What's Happening

In the News

James B. Summers ’77 joins biotech board

Summers, who holds a Ph.D. from Harvard, has more than three decades of drug discovery and pharmaceutical research management experience.

Awards & Honors

Abigail Engler ’25 awarded Barry Goldwater Scholarship

Biochemistry major Abigail Engler ’25 has been awarded a Barry Goldwater Scholarship, one of the most prestigious undergraduate awards for STEM majors.

University News

Jesse Felker is elected as 2023 Recent Student Trustee

As a scholar, athlete, and musician, Jesse Felker will bring a broad student perspective to the Denison Board of Trustees.