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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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Dr. Pingyun Feng & Dr. Yadong Yin selected as Clarivate Analytics' Highly Cited Researchers!

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Pingyun Feng and Dr. Yadong Yin for being selected by Claritive as Highly Cited Researchers! UC Riverside - Inside UCR Clarivate, previously part of Thomson Reuters, produces this list for their Institute for Scientific...
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Pfizer Academic Industrial Relation (AIR) Diversity Research Fellowship awarded to José Aleman!

Pfizer - La Jolla awards an AIR Diversity Research Fellowship to José Aleman, a senior undergraduate student. Originally from Peru, José transferred to UCR from Fullerton College and has been a peer facilitator for sophomore organic chemistry courses. In the...
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Engineering and Chemistry doctoral students receive prestigious DOE fellowships

Joseph Schwan and Pablo Andres Unzueta have received funding from the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research, or SCGSR, program to conduct their research at Department of Energy, or DOE, labs.
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2021 Sawyer Award Winner to Yen-Yu Yang!

The Sawyer Award recognizes an Analytical Chemistry graduate student in their 3rd or 4th year of study with a $1500 award. Awardees are selected based on excellence in research. The award honors Donald T. Sawyer, a well-known analytical chemist and...
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Ludwig Bartels and Alexander Balandin (c) UCR

 

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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November 10, 2021
Rising temperatures overcook bumblebees’ brunch
Bumblebees pollinate many of our favorite foods, but their own diet is being upset by climate change, according to a new UC Riverside study. 
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Viji Santhakumar
November 08, 2021
How are epilepsy and autism linked?
UC Riverside and Rutgers University scientists explore this question in a study on mice
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November 05, 2021
Flame retardants linked to autistic-like behavior
UC Riverside-led study shows maternal transfer of PBDEs causes brain changes in female mice offspring
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November 04, 2021
Learning more than ever, faster than ever, about what we breathe
Nobody is currently taking continuous, routine measurements of the particles suspended in America’s air, called aerosols. That is set to change as a new, nationwide monitoring network launches with a site in Riverside, California. 
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