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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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Creating a diverse educational pipeline in microelectronics

Scientists at UC Riverside and UC Irvine have received funding of $5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, to team up with Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in building a diverse educational pipeline in the...
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MacREU Student Meagan Hill receives Second Place for the 2022 Research Posters Competition & won the 2022 Elmer Carvey Scholarship!

MacREU Student Meagan Hill, who works under Dr. Ludwig Bartles, placed Second Place at the 2022 Great Minds in STEM Luminaries! Not only that, she also won the 2022 Elmer Carvey Scholarship 2022 Elmer Carvey Scholorship of the SoCal AVS.
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Anh Hong wins inaugural Morton Memorial Award!

Graduate student Anh Hong has won the inaugural Thomas H. Morton Memorial Award in recognition of her outstanding research accomplishments and her broad interests in science and the world. Anh came to UCR in 2017 and has been completing her...
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Chaolumen Wu recognized with the Haddon award!

The Department of Chemistry is pleased to recognize an outstanding graduate student, Chaolumen Wu, with the 2022 Robert C. Haddon Memorial Endowed Graduate Award and $1,000. Chaolumen’s research, under the guidance of Professor Yadong Yin, focuses on the assembly of...
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October 04, 2022
Laughing gas in space could mean life
Scientists at UC Riverside are suggesting something is missing from the typical roster of chemicals that astrobiologists use to search for life on planets around other stars — laughing gas.
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October 03, 2022
Coronavirus formation is successfully modeled
UC Riverside study could inform the design of effective drugs to fight SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses
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September 28, 2022
After wildfires, do microbes exhale potent greenhouse gas?
Laughing gas is no laughing matter — nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas with 300 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide. Scientists are racing to learn whether microorganisms send more of it into the atmosphere after wildfires.
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September 26, 2022
Massive Mexican earthquakes warn Southern Californians 
A pair of massive earthquakes in Mexico has some in Southern California on edge, wondering whether the Golden State is next. UC Riverside seismologist Abhijit Ghosh weighs in on the likelihood of more shakers, and how to prepare for them.
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