The UCR Chemistry Program has been ranked 42nd world wide by TheBestSchools.Org. The ranking cites the breadth of major research areas, facilities, and instrumentation, and the success of graduates. Read More
Robert Cort Haddon, UCR distinguished professor of Chemistry and of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and Director of the Center for Nanoscale Science & Engineering, passed away April 21, 2016. Haddon is best known for the prediction and discovery of superconductivity in alkali-metal-doped carbon-60, for his preparation and characterization of a stable crystal of phenalenyl radicals...
Congratulations to Jack I-Chieh Wang as UCR's recipient of the American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry award. This award is given to one "Outstanding, Senior Organic Chemistry Student" at UCR. Jack carried out his undergraduate research in Prof. Martin's laboratory synthesizing new catalysts, and has also worked in the Department of Biochemistry. Jack is...
Professor Ludwig Bartels has been selected to receive the 2015-2016 Chancellors Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Dr. Bartels has mentored close to a hundred undergraduate research students from many different academic programs. The majority of Dr. Bartels research publications have undergraduate co-authors and he is the leader of the NSF funded program for Research...
3 chemistry students have been awarded prestigious five year NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Jesse Tamayo works on macromolecular and nanochemistry with Dr. Tang. Pranee Pairs works on novel chemical synthesis with Dr. Harman. Marissa Gionet-Gonzales performs research on chemical imaging with Dr. Zhong. David Barroso also received honorable mention for his work on materials chemistry...
Prof. Len Mueller was awarded the Regitze R Vold Memorial Prize at the 9th Alpine Conference on Solid-State NMR in Chamonix, France, September 2015. This prize is awarded for outstanding contributions from a scientist under 50 yrs of age. Read More
Professor Yadong Yin appears on Reuters list of The World's Most Influential Minds of 2015. Researchers earn the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of Highly Cited Papers - ranking among the top 1% most cited in their subject field. Five UCR faculty appeared on the 2015 list, which can be searched at highlycited.com. Read...
Dr. Bohdan Schatschneider earned his PhD from UCR in 2008 working with Dr. Chronister on molecular dynamics in molecular crystals under extreme conditions. In his postdoc with Peter Lu he conducted single molecule FRET investigations on HIV protease. In 2009 Bo accepted an assistant professor position at the Penn State Eberly Campus. Bo recently moved...
Dr. Bohdan Schatschneider earned his PhD from UCR in 2008 working with Dr. Chronister on molecular dynamics in molecular crystals under extreme conditions. In his postdoc with Peter Lu he conducted single molecule FRET investigations on HIV protease. In 2009 Bo accepted an assistant professor position at the Penn State Eberly Campus. Bo recently moved...
A UCR alumnus has donated $6 million to establish four new endowed chairs in chemistry. The Chairs recognize four founding faculty of the department (left to right): George K. Helmkamp, Harry W. Johnson, Donald T. Sawyer, and Hartland Schmidt. The endowed chairs will greatly assist efforts to recruit and retain the highest quality faculty.
UCR chemist Christopher Bardeen is looking for ways in which solar energy could be made cheaper by coaxing solar cells to generate more power and thus reducing land use for solar panels. Read More
Chemistry grad students helped celebrate National Chemistry Week at Taft Elementary School on October 29th. Kids were lead through an interactive experiment to teach the Scientific Method and foster excitement for Science Fair. Strong support from Taft administrators and teachers has helped the program have a large impact. Since 2012, when the program was started...
Congratulations to Ariana Nguyen on receiving a best poster award at the annual C-SPIN review. Her project entitled Metal Contact Formation and Substrate Ferroelectric Poling: Effective Means of Determining MoS2 Transport Properties was performed under the direction of Pofessor Bartels. Standing next to Ariana is the C-SPIN director Jianping Wang. C-SPIN is one of the...
Sahar Alvillar received a Best Poster Award at the Techcon 2015 conference. Sahar worked with Prof. Bartels on his project entitled "CVD Growth and Characterization of TMD materials on Patterned and Non-Patterned Substrates". Read More
Dr. Gregory Barding earned his PhD from UCR in 2013 working under the direction of Cindy Larive. His PhD research focused on studies of the metabolomics of biological systems in plants and organisms. Dr. Barding continued his metabolomics work during a postdoc at the University of Washington. In 2014 he accepted an Assistant Professor position...
UCR Chemistry is ranked 41st worldwide (25th in US) in the Academic Rankings of World Universities for 2015. This result is an improvement from 47th in 2014, which itself was an improvement from 51-75 in 2012 & 2013. ARWU uses six indicators, including - the number of highly cited researchers, and per capita performance. More...
UCR Chemistry ranks 26th in the US in the Nature Index, which tracks the number of high-quality scientific articles (updated monthly). The ranking is based on a composite total, which further highlights the strength of our program. The link to the searchable Nature Index tool is found on the following link (input USA/Academic/Chemistry/FC). Read More
A huge gain in solar cells has now been made by a team of chemists at the University of California, Riverside that has found an ingenious way to make solar energy conversion more efficient. The researchers report in Nano Letters that by combining inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals with organic molecules, they have succeeded in "up converting"...
Thanks to generous donations by UCR Chemistry alumni John Precht and Eddie Seo, two of our undergraduate students worked full-time in the laboratory this summer. The Kuwana-Sawyer Award honors Ted Kuwana and Donald T. Sawyer, well-known analytical chemists and former UCR professors, while providing support for undergraduate students doing research in analytical chemistry. This year’s...
The Department of Chemistry welcomes four new Assistant Professors for 2015-16: Matthew Conley (Catalysis), Boniface Fokwa (Materials), Joseph Genereux (Bioanalytical) and Chao Wang (Polymer Materials). The following link includes additional details.