Announcements
Published: Sept. 11, 2025
Our very own senior graduate students Seth Johnson and Logan Lancaster, along with postdoctoral scholar Taylor Krueger helped lead several interactive and engaging Chemistry activities for Latinx high school students throughout Oregon at … Read More
Published: Aug. 7, 2025
Here is the news release on this interesting and impactful work: "Twisted but bright: Oregon State chemist uncovers unexpected design principle in fluorescent protein biosensors", and the link to the PNAS paper online.
Published: March 5, 2025
Seth received one of the Winter 2025 Lab TA Awards at OSU Chemistry for his excellent work in CH 122. On March 4, his first-author full research article "Proton Pachinko: Probing Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer of St. John’s Wort-Derived Fluorescent… Read More
Published: Aug. 29, 2024
On June 22-23, 2024, with the help from postdoc Taylor Krueger and graduate students Janak (Jay) Solaris, Seth Johnson, and Logan Lancaster, Dr. Fang and José organized the 7th Annual Juntos Chemistry Camp (JCC), for the 2nd time as part of the week-long Juntos Academy (… Read More
Published: July 22, 2024
Our very own Taylor has won another prestigious award: he has been selected as a co-recipient of the 2024 Postdoctoral Excellence Award at Oregon State University. The University is delighted to highlight College of Science, Department of Chemistry, and YOU (Taylor)… Read More
Published: June 5, 2024
We are excited that our very own Jiawei Liu won the Sheng Chung Fang Graduate Fellowship, and Chieh-Hsi (Jesse) Kuan won the Milton Harris Graduate Fellowship for Summer 2024!
We thank the generous donors and wonderful friends of OSU… Read More
Published: May 8, 2024
Logan Lancaster, a fourth-year graduate student in the Fang Lab, has been recently awarded the Renewable Energy Scholarship (2024). He received the RESF Scholarship for $2,500 (as one of 10 graduate winners in the Pacific Northwest this year). In 2024,… Read More
Published: April 4, 2024
Two undergraduate researchers in the Fang Lab, Hope Smith and Noah Wafel, were recently selected to receive a 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) award to support their research projects on photoactive yellow proteins and smoke taint in wine,… Read More
Published: June 23, 2023
Our very own Dr. Taylor Krueger, who defended his Ph.D. dissertation "Bridging the Gap between Equilibrium Properties and Ultrafast Dynamics with Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Functional Systems" in July 2022, was selected as the sole recipient in the Biological… Read More
Published: June 6, 2023
Dr. Taylor Krueger has been selected by the OSU Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and the Arts, Faculty Affairs, and the Graduate School as one of the two recipients for the 2023 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring by a Postdoc… Read More
Published: June 2, 2023
We are excited that our very own Logan Lancaster won the Sheng Chung Fang Fellowship, and Chieh-Hsi (Jesse) Kuan won the N. L. Tartar Research Project Fellowship for Summer 2023!
We thank the generous donors and wonderful friends of OSU Chemistry so our… Read More
Published: Sept. 1, 2022
Organized by physical chemist Chong Fang and Juntos Statewide Coordinator José García, we have successfully held the Fifth Annual Juntos Chemistry Overnight Camp (JCOC) on the beautiful OSU Campus from June 25… Read More
Published: July 20, 2022
Taylor successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation "Bridging the Gap between Equilibrium Properties and Ultrafast Dynamics with Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of Functional Systems" via Zoom earlier today (July 20, 2022). Now from our group since Sep. 2010 at OSU, we have had Drs… Read More
Published: June 3, 2022
We are excited that our very own Logan Lancaster won the combined Dandeneau Family Graduate Fellowship, Ingram Graduate Fellowship, and Arnold Johnson Jr. Graduate Fellowship for Summer 2022, and Jiawei Liu won the Dr. Sheng Chung Fang… Read More
Published: May 19, 2022
Sean B. successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation "Capturing Molecular Movies of Organic and Organometallic Systems in Solution by Ultrafast Spectroscopy" via Zoom earlier today (May 19, 2022). Now from our group since Sep. 2010 at OSU, we have had Drs. Han, Oscar, Wang, Tang, Zhu,… Read More
Published: May 5, 2022
Logan Lancaster, a second-year graduate student in the group, has been awarded the Oregon Lottery Graduate Scholarship (2022). Congrats, Logan!
Published: Sept. 24, 2021
Taylor Krueger, a senior graduate student in the group, has just won the 2021 OSU Chemistry Milton Harris GTA Award (sole recipient). Warm congrats, Taylor! Richly deserved.
Last year, our very own Sean Tachibana (now Dr. Tachibana working as a… Read More
Published: July 14, 2021
Sean T. successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation "Revealing Ultrafast Dynamics and Functional Basis of Potential Biomedical Tools from Calcium Sensing to Optogenetics" via Zoom earlier today (July 14, 2021). Now from our group since Sep. 2010 at OSU, we have had Drs. Han, Oscar, Wang… Read More
Published: May 28, 2021
We are excited that our very own Taylor Krueger and Sean Boulanger just won the Milton Harris Graduate Fellowship for Summer 2021!
Sean Boulanger and Blaze Rightnowar have won the OSU Chemistry Lab TA award… Read More
Published: May 10, 2021
Blaze Rightnowar, a second-year graduate student in the group, has recently received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) Honorable Mention (2021) and the 2021-2022 Oregon Lottery Graduate Scholarship. He was also a recipient for the OSU Chemistry Department… Read More
Published: Nov. 19, 2020
Our second-year graduate student, Jiawei Liu, has been selected by the OSU College of Science to receive the Wei Family Private Foundation Scholarship for the 2020-2021 academic year. Warm congratulations! Time to make an impact.
Published: Sept. 10, 2020
"Interviews with scientific imaging experts from across the globe, from Teledyne Photometrics and Teledyne Princeton Instruments."
Episode 20: Prof. Chong Fang
In this Science Off Camera Podcast, Chong Fang (OSU) and Sebastian Remi (Teledyne Princeton Instruments) had an in-… Read More
Published: Aug. 31, 2020
Sean has been recently recognized by his undergraduate institution for his three publications so far in 2020, in JCP, Struct. Dyn., and J. Phys. Chem. Lett. The research topics range from the proton transfer in GFP chromophore derivatives in solution to a… Read More
Published: Aug. 27, 2020
Cheng successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation "Dynamics and Design of Green Fluorescent Protein-Inspired Superphotoacids and Red-Emitting Fluorophores with Transient Absorption and Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy" via Zoom earlier today (Aug. 27, 2020). His Ph.D.… Read More
Published: June 9, 2020
We are excited that our very own Sean Boulanger just won the Dorothy and Ramon Barnes Graduate Fellowship, and Cheng Chen won the Department of Chemistry Graduate Fellowship for Summer 2020!
Taylor Krueger has… Read More