The Department of Chemistry mourns the passing of Giacinto Scoles, esteemed physical chemist and professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and the Donner Professor of Science, Emeritus, who died in Sassenheim, the Netherlands on Sept. 25 with his wife of nearly 60 years at his side. He was 89.

Materials chemist Lilia Xie, a 2014 undergraduate alumna, is joining the Princeton faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Princeton Materials Institute (PMI), effective January 1, 2025.

Our incoming graduate student photo gallery is “live,” with photos of students caving, climbing, traveling … even getting married. Enjoy this annual showcase of some of Frick’s newest community members.

The Mo Lab upends for the second time in two years the long-held notion that enzymes only install selenium into large molecules, describing a new pathway for selenium insertion into small molecules by a specialized class of enzymes.

In a new paper out in PRX Life, the lab identifies how small changes in the concentration of a shared, intracellular protein determines whether droplets dock to form more complex morphologies or whether they disperse.

A team of researchers in the Rabinowitz Lab has discovered a possible end-run around the factors that limit the success of a specific type of immunotherapy through their investigation into metabolic supplementation.