Students – MIT Department of Chemistry

Gerard Porter, wearing a lab coat and safety glasses, conducts research at a fume hood.

A launching pad towards possibility: SPISE alumni at MIT

Student Program for Innovation in Science and Engineering is an intensive summer program for high school students offered by the Caribbean Science Foundation.

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Seven headshots of the seven winners of the Mentorship Spotlight award.

Seven Exemplary Mentors honored with Fall 2024 Mentorship Spotlight Awards

The winners were nominated by students, postdocs, faculty, and staff in recognition of their exceptional commitment to mentorship.

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Alexis Boykin participates in a shotput competition.

Champion Field Athlete’s Inspiration: “Wanting to Get Better and Better”

Chemistry and Biology Major Alexis Boykin ’25 weighs in on the benefits of being a student-athlete.

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Anna Davis smiles while wearing a Red Sox cap and holding a bouquet of flowers

Graduate Student Spotlight: Anna Davis

Chemistry Graduate Student Anna Davis describes her research and answers 20 random questions as part of the Graduate Student Spotlight series.

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A group of volunteers wearing light blue t-shirts smiles in a row in front of dozens of empty paper bags that they are going to fill with food donations.

Chemistry Cares: An Afternoon at East End House

Fourteen members of the Chemistry Community volunteered their time to sort Thanksgiving food donations for families in need at East End House.

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Zachary Fried smiles in front of a mountain vista.

Zachary Fried wins 2024 Rao Prize

The International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy has named Fried one of three winners of this year's Rao Prize.

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Philip West sits outdoors at a restaurant beside a giant tap tower of beer.

Graduate Student Spotlight: Philip West

Chemistry Graduate Student Philip West describes his research and answers 20 random questions as part of the Graduate Student Spotlight series.

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New snapshots of ancient life

The resolution revolution, beating “blobology”, and shedding light on how ancient microbes thrived in a primordial soup.

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David Sarabia smiles on a mountain trail with a husky laying beside him.

Graduate Student Spotlight: David Sarabia

Chemistry Graduate Student David Sarabia describes his research and answers 20 random questions as part of the Graduate Student Spotlight series.

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At left, the makeup of a vaccine particle, which shows a labeled glycan, peptide, and SSRNA. At right, a dendritic cell with the vaccine elicits T cell activation and immune response

A new way to reprogram immune cells and direct them toward anti-tumor immunity

MIT scientists’ discovery yields a potent immune response, could be used to develop a potential tumor vaccine.

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Engineering proteins to treat cancer

PhD student Oscar Molina seeks new ways to assemble proteins into targeted cancer therapies, while encouraging his fellow first-generation graduate students.

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Four Graduate Students win 2024 Student Group Presidents’ Awards

These awards are given to students who have demonstrated long-lasting commitment to and leadership within department student groups.

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Catherine Hazard smiles in a sunny vineyard.

Graduate Student Spotlight: Catherine Hazard

Chemistry Graduate Student Catherine Hazard describes her research and answers 20 random questions as part of the Graduate Student Spotlight series.

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