Today is the #BlueDemonChallenge, DePaul’s day of awareness and fundraising! You can follow the day’s events on the dashboard here.
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Chem Club are raising funds to support student travel to conferences, such as the ACS meetings in Atlanta in the Spring and Chicago(!!!!) in august. We are also raising funds to support student research training and experiential learning, as well as funds for a new mode of TA training and implementation that we are starting to roll out.
Go to givenow.depaul.edu, then on designation search for College of Science and Health – General – “Fund for Chemistry Department”. You can also give to a specific scholarship for the chemistry department.
If you want to directly fund our Chem Club, in the designation search for Student Affairs – Student Organization – Fund for Chemistry Club.
Any amount is appreciated and helps us advance our students’ growth in science and chemistry! Also, after a certain number of donations, no matter how small, various matching gifts can get unlocked. Check out the “challenges” on the blue demon dashboard!
Hi DePaul Chemistry and Biochemistry Students, Alumni, families and Friends,
Thanks to those who donated on the BlueDemonChallenge Day! Your gifts unlocked a bigger gift to the department. If you missed the day but want to support the department, you can donate funds here to “The Fund for Chemistry”. This money is used to support our efforts to help our students, such as helping cover costs to go to conferences, etc (see below). Donate at this link by clicking “view all giving opportunities” and searching chemistry to find the Fund for chemistry, as shown in this image:
Also, A few things to put on your calendars:
If you are a student or alumni who has/had a CSH instructor you think is doing a fantastic job, nominate them by Monday for the CSH excellence in teaching award! Faculty and staff can also nominate instructors. Here’s a flier with a QR code. It’s due Feb 10th
2. On February 13th the department will have a lab open house on the 3rd floor of McGowan south (and one lab on the 4th floor) where students can come and check out the research different folks are doing and chat about how to get into research It will Feb 13th from noon-2pm. Put it on your calendars!
3. We will have a seminar on Feb 19th by a professor from Duquesne to talk about their organic chemistry research. Keep an eye out for fliers as we got closer to the event! Here’s who the speaker will be: https://www.duq.edu/faculty-and-staff/thomas-montgomery.php
3. The Chem club is finalizing getting funds to send some students to ACS spring in San Diego, if you are a alumni or family/friend who is going the ACS, keep an eye out for our students! You can also email chemistry@depaul.edu with you info and we can share it with the students so you can meet up there.
4. Another, more local conference is coming in June: the ACS Great Lakes Regional Meeting in Appleton Wisconsin. The due date to submit abstracts is March 1st and we might have faculty or students go to that. Here’s the link to the meeting: https://greatlakesregion-acs.org/event-welcome/glrm-2025. Appleton, WI is a 3h drive from Chicago, which isn’t that bad.
As always, alumni and friends of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, we love to hear from you and would love for you to come back and give a talk about your career trajectory and useful lessons for our students! Also, alumni can join our discord server for faculty, staff, students and alumni to stay connected with the department. We often share opportunities we get in our inboxes on there like summer workshops or research opportunities, etc. Here’s a discord invite link: https://discord.gg/gYT8Juk
Take care of yourselves and we will see you around! And again, thank you so much for your support during the Blue Demon Challenge!
Hello DePaul Chemistry Students, Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Friends, and Supporters!
Today is the blue demon challenge and there is a chemistry challenge! If abut a dozen more people donate to the Fund for Chemistry (any amount), we unlock a $2000 gift from a donor! Please share this far and wide today!
The Funds will go to help support departmental initiatives, including one we are working on to increase the support for learning that we give our students in our courses. Your donation really makes a difference, no matter how small!
Just a reminder that the research lab open house is today from the 12-2. It starts in the 3rd floor atrium and we have research labs on the 3rd and 4th floor. Come check it out!
If you can’t make it, and are interested in research, you can see what faculty do for research by looking at their bios (linked here) on this page. Any faculty member listed as an “Assistant Professor”, “Associate Professor”, or “Professor” has a research program, and they all do very different things. We love talking about our research, so if you are curious, email a faculty member to set up a meeting to chat!
Research usually starts as volunteering, but after trying it out, if you want to continue, there are internal/external grants you can apply to to get paid, or a faculty member might have an existing grant to pay students. Also, you can do research as a class for your experiential learning LSP requirement, ask a faculty member how it works!
One more research-related note, the CSH Dean’s Undergraduate Summer fellowship program is open and accepting applications on Handshake, the due date is Feb 23rd!
We hope everyone has settled in to winter quarter and is keeping warm. Next week, Dr. Grice and Dr. Bystriansky (from BIO) will be having infosessions about their summer study abroad program. Check out the flier below.
Also, in late January or early February, the Chemistry and Biochemistry department will be having a research lab open house. Details are being finalized, but keep an eye on this space. It will be an opportunity to walk around and check out the various research groups in our department!
Finally, another way to learn about research opportunities is to join the departmental Discord server. DePaul students and alumni of all majors are welcome to join! Here’s the link to join
Next Wednesday, the 23rd, from 12-2 we will be having a research lab open house! All majors welcome! Come check out the various research labs of the faculty on the 3rd floor of McGowan South (and one on the 4th floor). We hope to see you there!
Hello Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry community,
Happy Memorial day! We wanted to also say that all this week, our department is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the College of Science and Health.
Memorial day started as a way to celebrate and honor the soldiers who died the civil war, and continues today as a Federal holiday to honor those who have given their lives in military service. We honor all who have served and paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country and think of them and their families today.
Memorial day is often a time when families and friends gather together, and while this year is certainly different, we hope that you can at least spend some virtual time with loved ones. While today is a holiday and the department is closed, we wanted to share some chemistry-related info over social media. Look out for posts later today!
Also keep and eye on this space and other social media over this week as the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the College of Science and Health, culminating with our departmental Awards symposium on Friday!
Hi Students, remember that the lab open house is from 12-2 this Thursday!
We will be giving out cards to students who come that will allow them to get initials from groups that they visit. You can then turn in the initialed card to the front office by the end of the day on Friday to enter a drawing for a “TEAM CHEM” t-shirt!
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