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Congratulations to Texas A&M chemist Karen Wooley, one of seven faculty-researchers from Texas-based institutions elected as 2020 American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering Fellows, among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer.

Texas A&M chemists led by Wenshe Liu are seeking to stop COVID-19 and other coronaviruses in their cellular tracks by developing drugs capable of preventing the virus from replicating once inside its human host and also neutralizing its presence in human plasma.

Stanford University organic chemist and National Academy of Sciences member Carolyn Bertozzi — who is known for founding the field of bioorthogonal chemistry — has been selected to receive the 2020 F.A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research, presented jointly by Texas A&M Chemistry and the Texas A&M Section of the American Chemical Society to honor the late Texas A&M chemist Albert Cotton.

Joint work between the laboratories of Texas A&M chemists Matthew Sheldon and Dong Hee Son has resulted in a breakthrough in the decades-long global quest to identify techniques for ultrafast optical control of magnetism using a classic material, gold. Their work, published in "Nature Photonics," could lead to alternate ways to generate electricity from light and possible new strategies for solar energy.

Using a clever strategy to “trick” the system so that only viruses containing peptides with noncanonical amino acids are capable of reproducing, the Wenshe Liu research group in Texas A&M Chemistry has found a way to stack the phage display libraries construction deck, effectively expanding the genetic code of bacteriophages and paving the way for new peptide-based therapeutics.

A multidisciplinary international team of scientists and engineers led by Texas A&M chemist Sarbajit Banerjee has discovered a neuron-like electrical switching mechanism in a solid-state material and how it reversibly morphs between conducting and insulating behavior on command, bringing researchers one step closer to developing brain-emulating materials for energy efficient computing.

Professors get their fair share of requests from their students. Last spring, Texas A&M chemist Simon North received his most unique to date when two former students in his freshman chemistry course, Julia Santell '19 and Josiah Day '19, asked him to officiate at their August 17 wedding. The rest, as they say, is history — er, chemistry.

Texas A&M chemist David Powers has been recognized as a 2020 Sloan Research Fellow by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation — the sixth among current and former Texas A&M Chemistry faculty members and one of four chemists from Texas-based institutions.

Congratulations to Texas A&M chemist Karen Wooley, one of 12 faculty-researchers from Texas-based institutions elected as 2019 National Academy of Inventors Fellows, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.

Texas A&M University and Teysha Technologies have signed a sponsored research agreement to streamline the development of natural degradable polymers that break down in water as a possible solution to the global plastics pollution crisis currently weighing in at an estimate exceeding 10 million metric tons and growing.

Congratulations to Texas A&M chemist Jonathan T. Sczepanski, who has earned three prestigious research grants this summer aimed at making potential progress toward treating ribonucleic acid-mediated diseases -- specifically, cancer.

Cameron Jones, an eminent scholar in residence and a visiting professor in Texas A&M Chemistry and a 2018-19 Faculty Fellow of the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, has been appointed as the inaugural holder of the Thomas W. Powell '62-Heep Foundation Hagler Institute Chair for Science.