Chemistry

A Lehigh undergraduate is reimagining how we make pharmaceuticals — one colorful molecule at a time.

Biochemist Daniel Laverty develops functional assays to understand how cancer cells hijack DNA repair pathways and how to stop them

Domenica Fertal, a PhD candidate in Lehigh University’s Department of Chemistry, has been named a recipient of the 2025 ACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Merck Research Award, presented by Merck Pharmaceuticals. The WCC Merck Research Award honors eight outstanding young chemists who will present their research at a special awards symposium during the Fall American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting.

The Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society has named Xiaoji Xu as the winner of the prestigious 2025 Richard Van Duyne Early Career Award in Experimental Physical Chemistry. The award recognizes outstanding contributions in experimental physical chemistry by a young investigator. Xu will accept the award and present an award lecture at the 2025 Fall ACS National Meeting.

Six Lehigh University professors have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors. The 2025 cohort comprises 162 academic inventors representing 64 NAI Member Institutions across the United States. Collectively, they are named inventors on over 1200 U.S. patents. Included in the cohort is Volkmar Dierolf, professor of physics, and Xiaoji Xu, associate professor of chemistry.

Lisa Fredin employs quantum mechanics to examine the chemical physics of catalytic materials.

Chemistry Ph.D. student receives an NSF award to help others take a less-traveled path to the sciences.

Chemistry and physics researchers join forces to unravel mystery behind cell signaling and lipid membrane movement.

Biochemist Oriana Fisher receives a $1.9 million Maximizing Investigators' Research Award award from the National Institutes of Health