Today is the Blue Demon Challenge!

Dear DePaul Chemistry and Biochemistry Community,

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!

CSH Scholarships Open

Calling all CSH Students! Apply to the scholarship opportunities before Nov 24th!

Students and Alumni, Join our Discord Server!

Back in 202 we set up a Discord server to help students connect more with each other and Department. Discord is an instant messaging app that can used on desktops and mobile devices. We welcome all student of any major as well as Alumni to join our server and chat with each other and the faculty who are more active on it (Dr. Griffin and Dr. Grice regularly use it). We commonly share links and info that may be useful to students.

Here’s the different channels that we have on our server to give you an idea of what we talk about:

If you want to join, use this link. When you join, read the community guidelines and post your introduction and then we can give you access to the community channels. We’ll see you on the server!

Link: https://discord.gg/mGA6QKsR

Tomorrow is the Blue Demon Challenge Day of Giving!

Dear Chemistry and Biochemistry students, alumni, friends, and family,

Tomorrow, Jan 31st, is the Blue Demon Challenge, the day DePaul uses to focus on giving and raising awareness of what we do!

Even if you can’t give much, small donations carry a lot of weight! If you give to any CSH fund, there are challenges that unlock a lot of money after a certain number of people give to any CSH fund, no matter how much or little they give! The info on these challenges is here

Dr. Grice has pledged to give 10$ more (up to 100$ more) than he was planning to give for each student, alumni, or friend who emails him tomorrow that they have donated to any fund in the college of science and health (no need to say how much given or to what fund, just email him to say you did it!). His email is kgrice1@depaul.edu.

So, how can you support the Chemistry and Biochemistry department directly? There are a lot of funds/scholarships to give to in CSH, but if you go to the CSH page here, and click the “View All Giving Opportunities” button, you can search for “Chemistry”. Several of the scholarships related to our department pop up, as well as “Fund for Chemistry”, which goes to support our department in everything we do for our students. The “Fund for Chemistry” is a good place to donate to support CHE!

Check out DePaul’s social media accounts tomorrow to see what happens with the Blue Demon Challenge!

Celebrating our Graduating Seniors

Hello DePaul Chemistry and Biochemistry community,

We are now in the final 3rd of the quarter, and looking forward to celebrating our graduating seniors.

Please hold June 3rd, from 2:30-4:30 for our annual end of the year award and research symposium. More info will be coming soon!

Also, we wanted to highlight some of our graduating seniors. Check out the infographics below!

Welcome back! Chemistry and Biochemistry WQ Events Coming up.

Hello Students, Alumni, and Friends! Welcome to 2020!

We are very excited for the new year and several events that are coming up soon. First, we will be having a CHE Lab Open House on the 3rd and 4th floors of McGowan South On Thursday, January 16th from 12-2 pm. Labs will be open and have faculty or students in them to chat about the research they do. This is a great time to learn about research in the department and think about groups you might be interested in joining.

Secondly, If you are a first-year student interested in research, also check out the “Rising STEM Scholars” Program open house Friday January 17th in McGowan South 103 at 1 pm.

Finally, if you are interested in Studying abroad, Dr. Grice and his BIO collaborator Dr. Bystriansky will be having info sessions this coming Monday and Tuesday about their study abroad program to Spain. See the flier below:

Rising STEM Scholars Program infosession

Help Send our Students to ACS Philly 2020!

Hello DePaul Students, Alumni, and Friends,

Between the costs of registration, lodging, and travel, going to conferences is expensive! While faculty can usually find funding to go to one conference a year or so, sending a group of students is usually prohibitively expensive. This is really unfortunate because going to a conference is such a transformative professional development experience for young chemists.

Therefore, we set up a crowdfunding site through “Inspire DePaul”, the DePaul University crowdfunding platform, to send 5 students to the American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in Philadelphia in March 2020. The ACS meeting is a HUGE (ca. 15000 chemists) 5-day event. The students would be presenting their research in posters or talks, and their faculty adviser (Dr. Grice) would go to and advise them on how to get the most out of the experience. These students have never been to an ACS meeting before and in addition to presenting, would be able to network, learn cutting-edge chemistry, and immerse themselves in the global chemistry community.

You can help us make this happen by donating to their campaign

The campaign starts today and goes for a month. Donations are gifts to DePaul and so you get a gift receip. Funds only go towards supporting the students going to the conference. If you know someone who would be interested in supporting students as they grow as professional scientists, pass this on! Let’s get these students to Philly for ACS in the Spring of 2020!

Thank you for your help!

Meet and Greet on Oct 24th

We will have a Departmental Meet and Greet on Oct 24th from 11:30 to 1:30. We’ll have refreshments and faculty and staff will introduce themselves and talk about what they teach/research/work on in the department. This is a great chance to meet faculty you will be taking classes from or find info on opportunities such as research or being a TA. Students of all majors are welcome! Refreshments will be served.

oSTEM Meetings every Friday!

Come join oSTEM and be part of our weekly meetings, where we will be having seminars and discussions about topics affecting the LGBTQ+ community in the STEM fields! Check out the flyer below for the topics that will be discussed for the remainder of the quarter. Everybody is welcome!