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Professor Ryan Walvoord awarded Organic Syntheses Summer Research Grant
For the next two years, Chemistry Professor Ryan Walvoord has been awarded $16k to investigate a new method for converting C-O to C-N bonds in constructing fluorescent molecules.
Ursinus College Unveils APEX
APEX at Ursinus is a transformative new learning ecosystem combining academic Inquiry with real-world experiences. Nearly $10M in commitments from donors have been made to date for APEX implementation, which begins in fall 2025.
Wilner and student co-authors are published in the Journal Biomacromolecules
Dr. Samantha Wilner and student co-authors published “Aptamer-Targeted Dendrimersomes Assembled from Azido-Modified Janus Dendrimers “Clicked” to DNA.”
Chemistry Students Experience MIT
Ursinus students accompanied Professor Mark Ellison to the MIT campus to analyze a new two-dimensional polymer that was synthesized in the group of the MIT host, Professor Michael Strano.
Student Researchers Travel to Rice University to Present Results
This fall, senior chemistry majors Alexandra Bender and Julia Shoemaker presented the results of their undergraduate research projects at the Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium (GCURS) hosted by Rice University.
Summer Fellows Spotlight: Applications of Machine Learning on Quantum Molecules
Classical music can be heard coming from a small office in Pfahler Hall while Brock Dyer ’25 conducts research into the the applications of machine learning on molecules for his Summer Fellows research.