Science of Italian Food The Catholic University of America Rome campus! We visited an olive grove and a delightful family who make *delicious* olive oil. How do they remove water from the oil in olives? Why is it "virgin" olive oil? It's chemistry in action! Thanks to Frantoio for being our hosts!

Week 7 Science of Food The Catholic University of America Rome Campus! Now we’re cooking with acid! What do acids do to foods? A local market provided lots of local purple vegetables for experiments with pH. Then we “tested” olive oil from last weeks field trip. With wine. It was that kind of test.

Week 8 Science of Food The Catholic University of America Rome Campus! We made pretzels! We studied the chemical mechanism of how baked food browns and tested hypotheses to tune browning. Did we make pretzels? Sure. Are we ready for the cover of Food & Wine magazine? 😬

Science of History The Catholic University of America in Rome! We visited the Antica Spezieria di Santa Maria della Scala! This pharmacy is a dive into the history drug development. Active from the 1500s until 1954. 100s of containers of dried plants, chemicals, bugs and a...medicinal chameleon?

Today, I took my first walk though gardens The Catholic University of America Rome campus. Levels of wildflowers (Periwinkle! Hyacinth! Daisies!) and seats to look out in the direction of the Colosseum and Palatine Hill. What a glorious spring day in Rome. I think I've found my new classroom.

Science of Italian Food The Catholic University of America Rome campus! Today we performed tests of olive oil quality. We used lasers to make chlorophyll fluoresce (chlorophyll turns green lasers red) + peroxide assays (makes oil rancid). Then of course we had to test the oils with bread and wine...

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Jacob Tribull at his poster @Catholic_URD! Jake works to figure out how the internal architecture of kinases flip from active to inactive states. This is the first time I've seen Jake without a mask. Is he always this happy? The Catholic University of America Catholic U. Chemistry Dept.

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It's enzymes day in Science of Food The Catholic University of America Rome campus! How do enzymes act in chemical reactions? We measured CO2 production from yeast and the impact of changing enzyme and substrate concentrations. Then pizza! Catholic U. Chemistry Dept.

Science of Italian Food The Catholic University of America Rome campus! Biblioteca e Museo della Cucina has rare books about cooking, incl. a 1st edition 16th century book by Pope Pius V's private cook. Plus an educational wine tasting with Maurizio Di Franco VinoRoma! Catholic U. Chemistry Dept.

Our final Science of Food class The Catholic University of America Rome campus! Everyone on campus judged our gelato-explaining competition! Students made amazing gelato and explained the molecules and forces that make gelato work! Thanks to all the students that made this semester a lot of fun!

Congratulations to Patricia Kwiatek (‘23 Chemistry) for receiving an Undergraduate Student Poster Session award at the Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society! Way to go!! The Catholic University of America Catholic U Undergrad CUArts&Sciences

Just in! First selfie from our 2022 #NobelPrize laureate in chemistry Carolyn Bertozzi. Congratulations!

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What’s better than a walk around The Catholic University of America campus during peak cherry blossom bloom?

ASBMB committee members and staff are at the Congressional Life Science Fair! Our activity focus on how fundamental science could be applied at a crime scene. Participants will learn about antigen testing, antigen markers, vaccine development & basic research! #ASBMBadvocates

Your Natural Science requirement could be a summer sci-fi class. Frankenstein. Gattaca. The Fly. CRISPR. The biochemistry behind the fiction — and where the fiction stops. CHEM 127: Biochemistry in Science Fiction— Summer 2026, online. The Catholic University of America Catholic U. Chemistry Dept.