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Welcome to the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside

Our Department, and indeed the UC Riverside campus, continues to be in a period of rapid growth: outstanding faculty continue to join our Department, the numbers of graduate and undergraduate students continue to increase, a new chemistry building has been built.

"I get to address and study real-life, relevant issues. My studies have an actual impact on the world."
ERIC, CLASS OF ‘20
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Mihri Ozkan elevated to National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Mihri Ozkan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, or NAI. The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in...
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Ludwig Bartels (left) and Alexander Balandin (right) in the Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (POEM) Center at UC Riverside, 2019

Dr. Balandin and Dr. Bartels from UCR receive $1.12 million grant

Alexander Balandin, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Riverside and Ludwig Bartels, a professor of chemistry, have received a $1.12 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct data-driven discovery, synthesis, and characterization of...
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Tyler Lambeth (left) and Ryan Julian in the lab. (UCR/Julian lab)

An alternate theory for what causes Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia among the elderly, is characterized by plaques and tangles in the brain, with most efforts at finding a cure focused on these abnormal structures. But a University of California, Riverside, research team...
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2017-2018 ACS Student Chapter Awards

Congratulations to the Chemistry Club for being selected for the Outstanding Award! For the 2017-2018 academic year, the American Chemical Society received over 400 activity reports. Of the 400+ reports, ACS presented 69 Outstanding, 92 Commendable, and 145 Honorable mention...
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Data-Driven Discovery of One-Dimensional Materials

Bartels and Balandin receive $1.12 million grant to discover new van der Waals materials
 

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17 Jan
America’s most widely consumed oil causes genetic changes in the brain
New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, and depression. 
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17 Jan
Doubling down on cancer-causing genes
NIH grant of $2.2 million could help researchers target two oncogenes, potentially leading to therapies for melanoma, lung cancer, and other tumors
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13 Jan
Research identifies possible on/off switch for plant growth
New research from UC Riverside identifies a protein that controls plant growth —  good news for an era in which crops can get crushed by climate change. 
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08 Jan
Two projects receive NIH grant for breast cancer research
UC Riverside research is supported by a four-year grant worth more than $1.2 million
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