Virtual Front Desk

We are going to do Virtual Front Desk hours through Zoom starting at 11:00 AM on the days posted below. If you have any question or concern related to any chemistry course, advisor or declaration of major/minor or grad check, please join us. Please remember that you will need to login to zoom using your CCNY email credentials.

Schedule: 

• July 27, August 16, 18, and 23. Please email  chemdept@ccny.cuny.edu to request a possible appointment on another day. 

Zoom Link: https://ccny.zoom.us/j/2126506103  

Advising Clinic

Click here for more information regarding advising for your major. You can also find information about degree requirements, minor requirements, forms and degree checklists. This information is important to review before consulting with your advisor.

Our Faculty 

Professor Maria Tamargo is new National Academy of Engineering member. Earlier this year Maria was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering, for "forging the way toward an inclusive science and engineering research community, and for contributions to molecular-beam epitaxy of semiconductor materials.” This week (Feb 28) at the annual meeting, they introduced the new members and will hold a ceremony in person at next year’s meeting. Congratulations Maria. Read More

Faculty And Staff Profiles

Our Students

Ph.D. student Roksana Azad (Biochemistry), a student researcher in the Structural Biology Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY (CUNY ASRC), was awarded an F31 Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Health. The award, of more than $97,000 over three years, will go towards Azad’s tuition and health insurance, and will provide a stipend as well as travel to scientific meetings. Read more here.

The first graduate of the Biochemistry Accelerated Masters Program, Mathiu Perez, has earned an Oxford-Cambridge Scholarship from the NIH. With the program, Mathiu will pursue an MD-Ph.D. degree through studies at Oxford University, Cambridge University, and the University of California, San Francisco. Read more here.

2021 Chemistry and Biochemistry Ward Medal Winner

The Ward Medal is awarded each year to the student who graduates with the best academic record among all Chemistry and Biochemistry majors. The recipient of the 2021 Ward Medal is Kaitlyn Toy, who earned a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry with research honors. She has worked in structural biology at the Advanced Science Research Center in the laboratory of Prof. Kevin Gardner, where she studied the structure and function of histidine kinases. She has also worked in clinical research at New York University where she studied progressive relaxation and other behavioral methods and their effects on migraines. Her research has been published under BioRxv and Headache, and she has been an S Jay Levy Fellow and a Goldsmith Scholar. Kaitlyn has worked with the Chemistry department as a chemistry recitation leader and coordinator, to help teach and lead discussions on general chemistry. She has also worked as a CUNY Deerfield fellow, to help analyze and model pharmaceutical companies. After graduation, Kaitlyn will be working as a research associate for the Getz lab at The Broad Institute. Long term, she hopes to pursue graduate school to study cancer biology.

Baskerville Chemical Society 

Check out our own Chemistry/Biochemistry club, Baskerville Chemical Society! Click here to read more about the club and how you can join.  

News

Check out the latest news in chemistry.

4/7/2021: Congratulations to Professor George John, who won the 2021 Edible Application Technology Division Outstanding Achievement Award by the American Oil Chemists' Society. Professor John will describe multifunctional, non-toxic molecular assemblies which heirarchically organize to form 3D structures and solidify oils at the 2021 AOCS Annual Meeting & Expo May 3-14. 

3/26/2021: Professor Teresa Bandosz has been awarded a prestigious Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship in order to conduct research in Japan. She will work at the  Sinshu University in Nagano in order to research In-pore confinement-aided utilization of versatile sulfur in energy science. Professor Bandosz's research is in the area of environmental chemistry, in environmental applications of adsorption/desorption phenomena, with the design of new materials for energy related applications, catalysis,  gas storage/separation, and photooxidation. She is also Editor for the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. Says Bandosz: “It’s a great opportunity and I am grateful and honored by the society to take this position  and to work with Prof. Kaneko and his research group at Shinshu University, Research Initiative for Supra-Materials, Interdisciplinary Cluster for Cutting Edge Research, on this exiting topic.

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Degree Programs

Learn about the undergraduate and graduate programs that we offer. 

Undergraduate

• Degree Requirements
• Undergraduate Courses
• Declaring The Major
• Learning Outcomes
• Careers In Chemistry
• Chemistry Minor
• Student Research
• Forms

Graduate

• Entry Requirements
• Biochemistry M.S.
• Chemistry M.S.
• Courses And Syllabi
• Ph.D. Programs

ACS Accreditation: obtain an ACS Approved Bachelors in Chemistry or Biochemistry. Here’s how: www.ccny.cuny.edu/chemistry/acs-accreditation 

Contact Information

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Marshak Science Building
Room 1024
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY  10031

p: 212.650.8402
f:  212.650.6107
e: chemdept@ccny.cuny.edu

STEPHEN O'BRIEN, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair

SEAN BOSON, Ph.D.
Vice-Chair

REZA KHAYAT, Ph.D.
Vice-Chair

DENISE ADDISON, HEO
Department Administrator  

Upcoming Events

Please join us on Tuesday, July 27th for the next edition of the 2021 IDEALS Summer Seminar Series to learn about the exciting research taking place in the CREST-IDEALS Center via Zoom: https://ccny.zoom.us/j/86518313449