RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have accomplished in the lab what until now was considered impossible: transform a family of compounds which are acids into bases. As our chemistry lab sessions have taught us, acids are substances that taste sour and react with metals and bases (bases are the chemical...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – How do our eyes work? How do our brains process images that allow for, say, the appreciation of art? How does white light contain all the colors? Do carrots truly improve vision? The public has an opportunity to find out the answers to the above questions at the Riverside Art Museum, 3425...
Robert Young and Jonathan Ashby have received prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. The GRF provides three years of $30K/yr support plus a $10K education allowance. The fellowship also includes research and professional development opportunities and TeraGrid Supercomputer access. Read More
UCR Chemistry 112C taught by Assistant Professor Catharine Larsen will be showcased on CBS Emmy-nominated Undercover Boss. As the first academic institution ever featured, the UCR episode is the season finale, airing 9 p.m. Sunday, May 1.
The Yin lab has developed tiny, nanoscale-size rods of iron oxide particles whose diffraction properties in the visible spectrum can be manipulated by external magnetic fields. Read More
Three UCR Chemists appear in a list of the top 100 Chemists since 2000. Yadong Yin, Robert Haddon and Misha Itkis all appeared in the list , based on the number of citations per paper. Yadong Yin was also ranked second on the top 100 Materials Science list. Read More
Greg Barding has been awarded the 2010-11 Center for Plant Cell Biology Graduate Research Award for his research paper published this year in the Journal of Proteome Research.
Assistant Professor Wenwan Zhong has received the CAREER award from NSF to support her work on the development of a novel signal amplification approach for biochemical sensing. Read More
Yongsheng Xiao, a second-year graduate student working in the Wang laboratory, won a Dissertation Research Award sponsored by the University of California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. The $60,000 award will support Yongsheng for two years in the study of TSNA signaling pathway by targeted proteomics
Dr. Yadong Yin will receive a 2010 DuPont Young Professor award, which is given to promising young research faculty working in areas of interest to DuPont. Dr. Yin will present a seminar on his work at DuPont and will receive a research grant for $25,000. Read More
Graduate Student Nisana Andersen was awarded a Dissertation Fellowship Award by the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. Working in the laboratory of Prof. Yinsheng Wang, the title of her proposal is Replication Studies on Minor-Grove DNA Adducts Read More
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Molecular machines can be found everywhere in nature, for example, transporting proteins through cells and aiding metabolism. To develop artificial molecular machines, scientists need to understand the rules that govern mechanics at the molecular or nanometer scale (a nanometer is a billionth of a meter). To address this challenge, a research team...
Professor Guy Bertrand has received the 2010 Le Bel Award from the Societe Chimique de France, one of two most important awards of the French Chemical Society Read More
Ms. Yingdi Liu (Zhang group) received a Best Student Research Award from the So. Calif. Chinese American Environmental Protection Assoc. in 2010, for her paper Read More
Dr. Zhongs research on nanotoxicity has been highlighted in the March 29 issue of C&ENews, page 34. Dr. Zhong and coworkers have quantified the fraction of binding sites on nanoparticle receptors occupied by protein ligands by capillary electrophoresis. Read More
Congratulations to Matthew Linman for receiving an ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry 9 month fellowship sponsored by Procter and Gamble. Matt is a graduate student working in the lab of Jason Cheng on the development of novel biointerfaces for label-free, high throughout analysis of biomolecules including membrane proteins and bacterial toxins.
Zhen Ma (UCR PhD with Zaera in 2008) has been appointed Associate Professor at Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Fudan University in Shanghai, one of the top five Chinese Universities.