The Master of Chemical Sciences (MCS) program draws domestic and international students who are looking to take advantage of the myriad career possibilities available in chemical science. Our students come to Penn with undergraduate degrees in chemistry, engineering, and other sciences and enroll full-time or part-time as their academic and professional lives allow.
Select a cohort year below to learn more about each of our accomplished MCS students:
Spring 2021 Incoming Class
Biological chemistry
Organic chemistry
Fall 2020 Incoming Class
Biological chemistry
Inorganic chemistry
Organic chemistry
Physical chemistry
Fall 2019 Incoming Class
Biological chemistry
Controlled Drug Delivery Systems to Treat Subglottic Stenosis
Dr. Danielle Reed, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Materials chemistry
Characterization of Variable Colloidal Nanoparticles Systems with Novel TEM Image Analysis and Single Particle Reconstruction (with Professor Murray)
Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation at Dye-sensitized Electrodes (with Professor Mallouk)
L-Lysine-β-Alanine Dendrimers as Soft Nanomaterials for Biorelevant Applications (with Professor Jishkariani and Chemical and Nanoparticle Synthesis Core)
Organic chemistry
Synthesis of BNM-III-170 bis-TFA Salt (with Professor Smith)
Catalytic Use of Titanium Methylidene to Increase Molecular Weight of Alkenes (with Professor Mindiola)
Synthesis of DOTA-Gd Functionalized High Density Dendritic Polyamide Macromolecules for Targeted MR Imaging (with Professor Jishkariani and Penn Medicine, Chemical and Nanoparticle Synthesis Core)
Dr. Donna Huryn, Penn Chemistry
Physical chemistry
Characterization of Designed Self-assembling Systems by Computational Chemistry (with Professor Saven)
Spinodal Dewetting Characterization of Diblock Copolymer Using AFM (with Professor Fakhraai)
Fall 2018 Incoming Class
Biological chemistry
cGMP Validation of Tangential Flow Filtration in Recombinant Viral Vector Manufacturing (with Professor Chung and Penn Medicine)
Modulating the Effects of Y39 Phosphorylation on Vesicle Trafficking and Protein Aggregation (with Professor Petersson)
Mechanism of CpAMs Misdirection of HBV Capsid Assembly (With Professor Guo and Blumberg Institute)
Materials inorganic chemistry
Monolayer Self-Assembly of Monodisperse Nanocrystals at The Liquid-Air Interface (with Professor Murray)
Synthesis of Au-Ag Alloy Nanoparticles and Characterization of Nanoparticle-Anthracene Hybrid Materials (with Professor Murray)
Organic chemistry
Optimization of the Synthesis of BNM-III-170 bis-TFA Salt (with Professor Smith)
Synthesis and Photochemical Studies of Two p-Hydroxyphenacyl Derived Photocages (with Professor Chenoweth)
Formation of Nanoparticles for the Oral Delivery of Small Molecules by Flash Nanoprecipitation (with Professor Pruud’homme and Princeton University)
Can Mixed Ligand and Catalytic Solvent Effects Transform Single Electron Transfer Living Radical Polymerization (SET-LRP) into a Commercializable Process? (with Professor Percec)
Fall 2017 Incoming Class
Biological chemistry
Understanding the Relationship Between Furin and Antibody Binding (with Professor Campobasso and GlaxoSmithKline)
High Throughput Screening of Natural Products for Anti-Hepatitis B Activity (with Professor Todd and Blumberg Institute)
Targeting Hippo-YAP Signaling in Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and Neurofibromatosis Type 2 Tumors (with Professor Field and Penn Pharmacology)
Molecular Analysis of Copper Binding to the Bacterial MFS-type Copper Importer CcoA (with Professor Daldal)
Materials inorganic chemistry
Synthesis and Optical Properties of Rare Earth Doped Fluorides Nanoparticles Via Enhanced Absorption (with Professor Murray)
Selective Hydrogen Bonding as a Driving Force for Nanoparticle Self-assembly (with Professor Murray)
Organic chemistry
Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Biliatresone Analogs and its Photoaffinity Probe (with Professor Winkler)
Synthesis of Potent and Selective inhibitor for PHD1 and the Thermal and Photochemical Cyclization of Vinyl Azides Toward the Synthesis of 2-aminoimidazoles (with GlaxoSmithKline)
Synthesis of Dendritic Ligands Containing Ferrocene for Quantum Dots (QDs) and Characterization of QD-ligands Hybrid System (with Professor Murray)
Physical chemistry
Electronic Spectroscopy and Photochemistry of Methacrolein Oxide: A Four Carbon Criegee Intermediate from Isoprene Ozonolysis (with Professor Lester)
Identification of Nontrivial Topological Properties in Wurtzite and Zinc Blende III-V Compounds (with Professor Rappe)
Starch Based Supercapacitor (with Professor Santiago-Aviles and Penn Engineering)
Fall 2016 Incoming Class
Inorganic chemistry
Janus Dendritic Ligands for Nanoparticle Assemblies (with Professor Tomson)
Kinetic Study of Rare Earth (III) Corrosion Inhibitors on Cold Rolled Steel Using Electrochemical Techniques (with Professor Schelter and Axalta Coatings)
Organic chemistry
Mechanisms of Electrochemical Cross Couplings Catalyzed by Nickel (with GlaxoSmithKline)
Ionic Liquids: Preparation, Characterization, Stability and Incorporation in Topical Formulations (with GlaxoSmithKline)
Oxidative Coupling of Phenols (with Professor Kozlowski)
Fall 2015 Incoming Class
Biological chemistry
Design and Synthesis of Tamandarin M Side Chain Analogs (with Dr. Simon Berrit)
Molecular Mechanism of Copper Regulation of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase (MEK1) (with Professor Marmorstein)
Peptide Synthesis and Modification as a Versatile Strategy for Probes Construction (with Professor Peterson)
Inorganic chemistry
NSF-GSP Recipient
Janus Dendritic Ligands for Nanoparticle Assemblies (with Professor Murray)
A Cucurbit[6]uril-Based Xenon-129 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Biosensor Targeting Human Carbonic Anhydrase II (with Professor Dmochowski)
Organic chemistry
The Study of Sulfenate and Sterically Hindered Chalcogenide Anions as Organocatalysts for the Construction of C-C Bonds (with Professor Walsh)
Synthesis of Novel Tröger’s Base-Derived Helical Scaffolds (with Professor Winkler)
Influence of Growth Conditions on the Secondary Metabolite Profile of Penicillium Rubens Biourge (with Professor Walsh)
Single Electron Transfer Living Radical Polymerization (SET-LRP) of Nonpolar Monomers in Triphasic and Biphasic Mixtures of Non-Disproportionating Solvents with Water (with Professor Percec)
