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Thomas Kempa
Faculty honors
Chemist Thomas Kempa receives $1.3M Moore Foundation award
Published Oct 8, 2025
Prestigious award from foundation's Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative supports work that advances fundamental research by 'brilliant mid-career scientists'
David Yarkony
In memoriam
David Yarkony, renowned expert in theoretical chemistry, dies at 75
Published Nov 26, 2024
Yarkony, whose research changed scientists' understanding of radiationless decay, had been part of JHU's Department of Chemistry since 1975
Headshot of Rigoberto Hernandez
Faculty honors
Johns Hopkins chemist Rigoberto Hernandez elected president of American Chemical Society
Published Oct 28, 2024
With more than 155,000 members, the American Chemical Society is one of the world's largest scientific societies
Extreme detail photo of a fruit fly
Chemistry
Potential tool against harmful insects
Published May 13, 2024
A way to curb nagging insects has been flying under our radar—an enzyme from fruit fly testes
Kelsie Wentz
Postdoc honors
Chemistry postdoc named Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow
Published June 6, 2023
Kelsie Wentz will start a two-year project to develop hybrid inorganic-organic conjugated polymers with unique semiconducting properties
A purple-gloved hand holds a cell culture dish containing small white particles in a light yellow suspension in front of a laptop computer screen showing a folded protein in bright green
Biochemistry
Surprising protein behavior could improve understanding of aging
Published Jan 13, 2023
E. coli proteins lacking the ability to reassemble themselves could one day help scientists rethink studies of the human brain
A student is taught how to pipette
Student experience
Lab access, granted
Published Feb 2, 2022
Chemist Stephen Fried designs Intersession course to provide laboratory experience to first-generation students
Solar panels
Sustainability
Researchers will use power of AI to optimize materials for solar energy
Published Nov 5, 2021
SPIRAL Center is one of 10 projects to receive support from Department of Energy initiative focused on the development of low-cost energy technologies
Xiongyi Huang and lab members working on a fluorescent experiment
Faculty news
Krieger School chemist wins prestigious Packard Fellowship
Published Oct 14, 2021
Xiongyi Huang, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, works to bridge the worlds of biology and synthetic chemistry to develop new, affordable, and sustainable processes for chemical synthesis and drug development
Rebekka Klausen
Hopkins chemist aims to develop longer-lasting, sustainable materials
Published Sept 22, 2021
Rebekka Klausen joins Center for the Chemistry of Molecularly Optimized Networks with focus on increasing the lifetime of synthetic rubbers and designing plastics that can decompose upon a chemical trigger