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Courtney Ngai wins 2022 Women in Science Award!

The Department of Chemistry is pleased to recognize an outstanding graduate student, Courtney Ngai, with the 2022 Women in Science Award and $1,000. Courtney is a synthetic chemist developing self-assembled, catalytically active metal-organic cage complexes. In particular, she is developing strategies to include functional groups into cages that allow them to perform biomimetic catalysis without...

Graduate Student Nhien Nguyen selected for the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy!

Graduate Student Nhien Nguyen under Dr. Timothy Su has been selected by ACS to attend the Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy! The ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy is a week-long once-in-a-lifetime experience! Each year about 60 students from the Americas are selected from the applicants to gather in...

Graduate Student Mario Cardenas selected for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!

Graduate Student Mario Imex Aguirre Cardenas in PI Su Lab has been selected for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions. The five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support...

ACS Recognizes Ana Bahamonde for Outreach Activities!

The American Chemical Society honors 33 local section and international chapter volunteers with its 2022 Outreach Volunteer of the Year Awards. The program, established by the Committee on Community Activities, recognizes extraordinary outreach volunteers.
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Langmuir Lectureship awarded to Dr. Yadong Yin!

The Langmuir Prize Lectureship is awarded by the American Chemical Society and is meant to recognize and encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research in chemistry. Please join me in congratulate Dr. Yadong Yin for being awarded the Langmuir Lectureship!

Scientists say they might have discovered the cause of Alzheimer's

Researchers in California focused on studying a protein called tau and how it’s linked to brain buildup, a key indicator doctors look for when diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists in California tried to study Alzheimer’s disease from a different perspective and the results may have led them to the cause of the disease. Researchers at the...

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 Information, which promotes “integrity in research while improving the retrieval, interpretation, and utility of scientific...

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 summer of 2021, he acquired research experience at NC State University on high-throughput sequencing of...

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.

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 long-time UCR faculty member.

2021 Chemistry Alumni Awards

Anh Hong , a fourth-year PhD student in Prof. Pingyun Feng’s group, has proved herself to be both prolific and versatile, co-authoring nine publications from her UCR research on topics including crystalline porous materials for gas storage and separations, heteroatom-doped nanomaterials for electrocatalytic reactions, and sulfonated materials for fast ionic conduction in battery or fuel...

2021 Robert C. Haddon Memorial Endowed Graduate Award Winner

The Robert C. Haddon Memorial Endowed Graduate Award was established by the Haddon family in memory of our esteemed former colleague Professor Haddon to encourage excellence in research in materials chemistry. Yanxiang Wang , a fifth-year PhD student in Prof. Pingyun Feng’s group, was selected to receive the Haddon award for his creative and outstanding...

Advancing Faculty Diversity Fellowships Awarded to Three Chemistry Graduate Students

The department of Chemistry is pleased to announce three recipients for the 2021-22 Advancing Faculty Diversity in Chemistry Graduate Fellowships. These fellowships recognize outstanding graduate students with a promising future in academia who combine research excellence and a commitment to advancing diversity at the university or in their surrounding communities. All three students will receive...

Dr. Casselman recognized as a University Honors Mentor of the Year!

Each year, graduating students in University Honors nominate faculty mentors to be recognized as one of three University Honors Mentors of the Year. Dr. Matthew Casselman from the Department of Chemistry has been nominated as one of three the University Honors Mentors of the Year! Congratulations Dr. Casselman!

Charge transfer studies from Vullev group published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA

Long-range charge transfer pervades biology, chemistry, and engineering, as it is critical for life-sustaining processes, chemical transformations, energy conversion, as well as electronic and photonic technologies ( Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2020 , 22 , 21583-21629) . Elucidating the factors that control electron transfer rates is of importance for understanding energy flows in biology as...

Dr. Pingyun Feng selected for the 2020 Tolman Award!

Dr. Pingyun Feng has been selected for the 2020 Tolman Award! The Tolman Medal is awarded each year by the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society in recognition of outstanding contributions to chemistry. These contributions may include achievements in fundamental studies; achievements in chemical technology; significant contributions to chemical education; or outstanding leadership...

Dr. Kevin Simpson recognized as one of the 2021 ACS Outreach Volunteers of the Year for the San Gorgonio section

Outreach Volunteer of the Year (VOTY) awards recognize the immeasurable efforts made by ACS local section and international chapter volunteers who conduct outreach and teach the public about chemistry. ACS presents awardees with a small gift and a certificate during a meeting or event. The awardees are also recognized at the annual ChemLuminary Awards...

Dr. Kerry Hanson speaks with David Pogue on PBS NOVA's Beyond the Elements

Dr. Kerry Hanson of UCR Chemistry speaks with David Pogue on NOVA's Beyond the Elements, which is available online now via your local PBS station. Using volleyball as an analogy, Kerry and David talk about the different types of UV radiation (UVA, UVB, UVC), their unique effects on life on our planet., and how high...

Dr. Yinsheng Wang recognized as an outstanding scientist by NIEHS grant awards!

Eleven new researchers received competitive NIEHS Revolutionzing Innovative Visionary Environemental Health Research (RIVER) and Outstanding New Environmental Health Science (ONES) awards as of July 7. Dr. Yinsheng Wang will study how alkylated DNA lesions affect DNA stability with his RIVER award. Alkylation, a type of damage that creates lesions in DNA, can alter gene expression...

Nanomaterial Gives Robots Chameleon Skin

A new film made of gold nanoparticles changes color in response to any type of movement. Its unprecedented qualities could allow robots to mimic chameleons and octopi — among other futuristic applications. Unlike other materials that try to emulate nature’s color changers, this one can respond to any type of movement, like bending or twisting...
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