Chemistry and Biochemistry News

Six chemistry and biochemistry students and 2 faculty members are on their way to San Diego for the National American Chemical Society Meeting. The students are presenting posters of their chemistry research projects.

Chemistry and biochemistry majors spend time in the laboratories each semester to gain hands-on experience. We strongly believe that students learn science by doing it.

For her Capstone internship, biochemistry senior, Fya Powell, shadowed an anesthesiologist on the neurosurgery unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She observed lots of surgeries and learned so much about medicine.

Biochemistry senior, Prince Gyamfi, completed his Capstone internship at Spine and Joint Center of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC). His career goal is to become a physician.

Chemistry junior Corinna Carter and Chemistry seniors, Ryan Drazenovic and Heather Drake, did research with Dr. Timothy Dwyer over the summer and fall looking at how to use RNA as a pharmaceutical tool and how inhibitors of m.