A class taught by chemist Li-Qiong Wang teaches the molecular building blocks of artistic expression and enables students to make some art of their own along the way.

Staff Spotlight: Melissa Shein takes chemistry to the community

It is with deep sorrow the Chemistry Department announces the passing of Professor Emeritus Peder J. Estrup.

It is with heavy hearts that we share that Russ Hopson, NMR Supervisor and well-respected member of the Brown Chemistry staff, died of glioblastoma in July 2025.

Three Brown University undergraduates and two recent alumni were named among this year’s classes of Goldwater, Truman, Gates Cambridge and Ellison scholars.

Over 200 students from Providence and Warwick attended the annual STEM Day at Brown.

Professor Moungi Bawendi, Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry, MIT, co-laureate of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will deliver the 2025 John Howard Appleton lecture "Quantum Dots: From Curiosity to Technological Impact" on Thursday, April 3, 2025.

We are hosting a virtual "Open House" on November 12th at 7pm Eastern. Join our faculty for a discussion about our program and applying to Brown University.

Undergraduate Introductory Course Guide

Congratulations to the 15 PhDs who graduated this year and to those awarded by the department for their outstanding accomplishments!

The department is pleased to announce The Philip and Anne Rieger Undergraduate Travel Award

Brown University STEM@Brown teams place at MIT's iQuHack 2024!

Read our Spring 2023 Newsletter.

Congratulations to the Chemistry Class of 2023!

William Lin 24', Biochemistry and Molecular Biology concentrator was awarded a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, along with three other undergraduate Brown University students.

Giovannia Barbosa's artwork was selected for the American Chemical Society Publication’s Diversity and Inclusion Cover Art Series. Gio's cover artwork and her accompanying editorial “My Discovery of Science” are featured in Journal of Organic Chemistry.

"I am very happy to have been selected for the ACS Diversity & Inclusion Artwork Series as I stand by the message behind it. Demonstrating diversity through this series is a very unique and creative way to increase representation in Chemistry. I was honored that they gave me the opportunity to also include my own editorial where I describe my inspiration for the cover. While science is more objective and art is subjective, I never stood behind the idea that one should only stick with one or the other. I always knew I wanted a career in the sciences, but I really enjoy my hobbies in the arts. While the outcomes of science and art are different, the processes involved can have many similarities!"

Brown Department of Chemistry invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professorship in Computational/Theoretical Chemistry.

Yusong Bai and Emily Sprague-Klein will be joining the Department of Chemistry as tenure-track faculty this fall.

Professor Christoph Rose-Petruck group's research makes the cover page of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters issue.

Chemical and Engineering News announced this week the 2022 American Chemical Society National Award winners.

Professor Brenda Rubenstein has been chosen as one of Popular Science's "Brilliant 10" in 2021! Back after a five-year break, Popular Science conducted a nationwide search to find early career researchers who are working on innovative solutions to some of today's most challenging problems. Read Prof. Rubenstein's "Storing data in chemical soup."

Professor Brenda Rubenstein has been selected as a 2021 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar.

Brown University awarded a Research Achievement Award to Prof. Ou Chen. The Research Achievement Awards honor extraordinary scholars for their research across a wide range of academic disciplines. Prof. Chen's research showed that special nanoparticle building blocks can assemble themselves into a quasicrystalline lattice, an ordered structure with no discernible repeating pattern and exotic symmetries.

Prof. Peter Weber's article "Observation of the molecular response to light upon photoexcitation" was one of the most read Nature Communications articles in physics in 2020.

Congratulations to Akil Hamsath!