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Last week, our ACS Student Chapter collected donations and raised over $1000 in support of the recent floods in Kerrville. Thank you to all for donating clothing, food, money & more and for supporting the relief efforts. Further donations can be made below cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/cre…


Congratulations to UTSA Chemistry’s Dr. Radhika Amaradhi and Dr. Stanton McHardy on their collaborative published article “Targeting DDR2 for Treating Pancreatic Cancer” in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. Be sure to check it out! doi.org/10.1158/1535-7…
Be sure to check out this published article in Angewandte Chemite from UTSA Chemistry’s Dr. Romie Nguyen, Dr. Inchul Shin, and Dr. Aimin Liu about “Deciphering Tryptophan Oxygenation: Key Modulators of 2-Oxindole Formation in MarE”. Congratulations! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…
Congratulations to UTSA Chemistry’s Christopher Reyes, Dr. Hadi Arman, and Dr. Zachary Tonzetich on their collaborative published article “Reduced Cobalt Corroles: Isolation, Reactivity, and Electronic Structure”. Be sure to check it out! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…
Big news in medicinal chemistry! The QPatch-II 48 is coming to the Max and Minnie Tomerlin Voelcker Center for Innovative Drug Discovery, boosting drug discovery for epilepsy, Parkinson’s & more at UTSA over the next 6 months. Learn more: bit.ly/4l2H3cV

Congratulations to UTSA Chemistry’s Jared Head and Dr. Syed Muhammad Usama on their published article in ACS Central Science about “One-Pot Dual-Wavelength 3D Printing Breaks Free from Support Constraints”. Be sure to check it out! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…
Thank you to everyone who joined the UTSA & UT Health SA Joint Retreat! Science Synergy Day was filled with insightful scientific talks, engaging poster presentations, & valuable networking that sparked exciting conversations & collaborative possibilities. @UTSA @UTHealthSA




Be sure to check out this published article in the Journal of the International Society of Electrochemistry from UTSA Chemistry’s Guna Karki & Dr. Waldemar Gorski about “Enhanced Electroplating of Ir-based Electrocatalyst for the...” Congratulations! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Congrats to UTSA Chemistry’s Abul Mansur Muhammed Fahim, Dr. Xiaodan Wang, Dr. Tanjila Islam, Dr. Isai Barboza-Ramos, Dr. Naresh Duvva, Dr. Habtom Gobeze, & Dr. Kirk Schanze on their collaborative article publish in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…
Check out this published article from UTSA Chemistry’s Anna Elizondo, Dr. Hadi Arman, & Dr. Francis Yoshimoto on ChemRxiv about “The Synthesis of 1B-Hydroxytestosterone, a Testosterone Metabolite of Xenobiotic Human Cytochrome P450...”. Congratulations! tinyurl.com/yuzfbj9n

Congratulations to UTSA Chemistry’s Dr. Jacquelyn Read on winning the 2025 JOC Outstanding Publication of the Year Lectureship Award! Her team's groundbreaking work on noncovalent interactions in organic chemistry will be honored at ACS Fall 2025 in D.C.! tinyurl.com/mry98yyp

Check out this published article in Protocols from UTSA Chemistry’s Tu Ho & Dr. Francis Yoshimoto about “Lipase-Catalyzed Acetylation of Racemic Citronellol and Determination of Enantioselectivity through Derivatization by: (i) Este...”. Congratulations! tinyurl.com/mucppyjh

Congratulations to UTSA Chemistry’s Dr. Zoe Hoffpauir & Dr. Audrey Lamb on their published article on Science Direct in the Journal of Biological Chemistry on “Identification of the phosphatase essential for riboflavin biosynthesis in Aquifex aeolicus” tinyurl.com/25t9vxv2

Check out this published article on ACS Publications in the Chemistry of Materials from UTSA Chemistry’s Dahee Lee, Bishal Gautam, & Dr. Fang Xu on “The Selection of Stable Pt Single-Atom Catalysts Supported on 3d–5d Transition Metal Carbides”. Congrats! tinyurl.com/4r3besww

Take a look at this published article from UTSA Chemistry’s Ramon Trevino, William Hughes, Seth Fremin, Babu Dhungana, Thi Bich Vy Nguyen, Dr. Arka Porey, & Dr. Oleg Larionov in ChemRxiv about “Cobalt-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent Decarboxy...”. Congrats! tinyurl.com/wnk2p4pp

Congratulations to UTSA Chemistry’ Dr. Zoe Hoffpauir and Dr. Audrey Lamb for their published article in the Journal of Molecular Biology on “Are allosteric mechanisms conserved among homologues?”. Be sure to take a look at their article! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to UTSA Chemistry’s Dr. Hector Aguilar for winning the President’s Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award: Excellence for Mentoring at the 2025 UTSA University Excellence Awards! Thank you for your hard work and dedication to UTSA and our students!

Congratulations to UTSA Chemistry’s Dr. Susan Thomas for winning the President’s Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award: Excellence in University Service at the 2025 UTSA University Excellence Awards! Thank you for your hard work and dedication to UTSA and our students!

Congrats to UTSA Chemistry’s Dr. Nicholas Clanton, Dr. Peter LoCoco, Dr. Harmannus de Karker & Dr. Stanton McHardy on their published article in JCI Insight about “A small molecule PKCε inhibitor reduces hyperalgesia induced by paclitaxel or opioid...”. insight.jci.org/articles/view/…

Join the Chemistry Dept with our student orgs for a thrilling competition, CHEM-Olympics, where Chemistry meets fun and friendly rivalry! Test your skills through a series of exciting Chemistry challenges HAPPENING NOW, Wednesday, April 23 from 11AM–1PM in BSE 2.102.
