A day on which we hope to encourage interest in chemistry.
National Mole Day recognizes a special number in chemistry.
Chemists and chemistry students mark the occasion each year on October 23.
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"As a woman in a male-dominated field, always be assertive. Strive to do more, learn more and find your talents and be confident with those." Ashley Dougherty is the Chief Scientific Officer at...
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As president, CEO and owner of Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Lou Kennedy runs a global company in West Columbia, South Carolina. She and her husband helped establish the Kennedy Pharmacy...
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Meet Foster Jordan, the Corporate Senior Vice President at Charles River Laboratories International, Inc., located in Charleston, S.C. Jordan began his career during the beginning stages of Charles...
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Andrew Lee is one of the co-founders and Chief Scientific Officer at IMCS. Andrew's educational background is in biochemistry. His passion for chromatography began during an internship at a research...
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Henry Minton was the visionary behind Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity. Commonly known as the Boulé, an ancient Greek term for a council of chiefs, Sigma Pi Phi was formally established on May 15, 1904...
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South Carolina State Museum educators Laura Ybarra Kane and Matthew Dantzler demonstrate a science experiment with a big foamy chemical reaction.
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USC Sumter’s Mad About Science Camp took place June 26-30. Kids had the opportunity to conduct science experiments, build rockets and learn about technologies such as gel electrophoresis. The...
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“F” is for Furchgott, Robert Francis [1916-2009]. Pharmacologist. Nobel Prize Laureate. When he was a young boy growing up in Orangeburg, Furchgott’s first interest was natural history. After...
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Dr Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, 1993, discovered how to clone DNA. He also grew up in Columbia, S.C.! He earned a Ph.D in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. In...
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In 1963, seventeen-year old Henri Monteith Treadwell was one of the first three black students - along with Robert Anderson and James Solomon - admitted under federal court action to the University of...