Dr. Jack Eichler was named Univeristy Honors Program Professor of the Year for 2013-14 for his exceptional teaching of honors general chemistry. Last year Dr. Eichler also received the 2013 UCR Innovative Teaching Award for the development of pedagogies for improving engagement in large enrollment courses. Read More
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A perspective article published last month by University of California, Riverside chemists in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters was selected as an Editors Choice—an honor only a handful of research papers receive. The perspective reviews the chemists’ work on “singlet fission,” a process in which a single photon generates a pair...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have constructed liquid crystals with optical properties that can be instantly and reversibly controlled by an external magnetic field. The research paves the way for novel display applications relying on the instantaneous and contactless nature of magnetic manipulation—such as signage, posters, writing tablets, and billboards...
The Bardeen group publication entitled - Singlet Fission: From Coherences to Kinetics in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters has been selected as an Editors Choice manuscript that highlights new research of particular importance to the scientific community. Singlet fission is a process in which a photon creates an excited state that spontaneously splits into...
Professors Robert Haddon and Yadong Yin appear on Thomson Reuters 2014 Highly Cited Researcher List. This distinction was earned by being in the top one percent of highly cited publications in their subject field for the year. Read More
Professor Ming Lee Tang has received a Young Investigator Award from the Army Research Office for her proposal entitled - Creating magnetic plasmons at visible frequencies: towards isotropic negative index metamaterials. Dr. Tangs research utilizes bottom-up self-assembly of 3D assemblies of plasmonic nanoparticles for the manipulation of visible light. Chemical reactions are used to link...
Professor Cynthia Larive has received the 2015 Award for Volunteer Service to the ACS. Dr. Larive served as president of a local section, Chaired the Division of Analytical Chemistry (2013), headed its Education Committee (2003-07), and she serves as editor-in-chief of the Analytical Sciences Digital Library. She received the J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence...
Krystal Vasquez is UCR's recipient of the American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award for 2014. The ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry invites Chemistry Departments to select the top student in analytical chemistry at each university to receive this award. Read More
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Photocatalysis—catalysis assisted by light—is a promising route to convert solar energy into chemical fuels. Particularly appealing is the possibility to use photocatalysis to split water molecules into molecular hydrogen. Although photocatalysis has been around for many years, the search for viable photocatalysts to facilitate the splitting of water molecules continues to date...
In response to an initiative by Dr. Bartels, the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC.org) started this year an undergraduate research internship program at its STARnet centers. In a nationwide competition, four of the 20+ undergraduate researchers of the Bartels lab were awarded summer fellowships. Recipients Sahar Naghibi, Gretel von Son Palacio, Daniel Lu and Thomas Empante...
The University of California, Riverside's Department of Chemistry has awarded two undergraduate students with the Alumni Scholarship Award. This award is made possible by the support of the Chemistry Department Alumni and is awarded to undergraduate students for their academic achievements, research involvement and extra-curricular activities. The following students have demonstrated such merit and were...
Congratulations to graduate student Josh Hartman for receiving the 2013-14 Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA) for Graduate Students. Based upon nomination letters and teaching evaluations the Graduate Division DTA Selection Committee determined that Josh demonstrated consistently superior performance as a teaching assistant. The Awards Ceremony will be held May 28, 2014 at 5:00pm in HUB 302...
Chemistry undergraduates Javier Fajardo, Mary Nguyen, and Nicole Godfrey have been honored by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Javier was awarded a three-year fellowship ($32,000/yr), while Mary and Nicole each received honorable mention. A GRFP fellowship was also awarded to Edwin Preciado, a graduate student working with Prof. Bartels to develop dichalcogenide semiconductor thin...
Dr. Zhang has been selected to receive the 2014 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Dr. Zhang has mentored 32 undergraduate research students. Seven of Dr. Zhang's UG students have been coauthors in peer-reviewed publications, and 19 have made scholarly presentations at conferences. Dr. Zhang has also mentored three Honors Thesis projects. Dr. Zhang...
Patrick Dunne, Ph.D., Retired Senior Advisor in Advanced Processing and Nutritional Biochemistry for the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Directorate at the U.S. Army Research Center, has received the 2014 Nicholas Appert Award for his leadership in focused research in advanced food processing that has led to transition to new processing technologies, such as high...
Yadon Yin has accepted a position as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Materials Chemistry C published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. This is a three year term starting on April 1. The Journal of Material Chemistry was established in 1991. In 2013 it was replaced by three new independent journals (A-energy and...
Dr. De-en Jiang has accepted a position at UC Riverside as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and will be joining the department in July 2014. His research focuses on addressing important materials chemistry problems by computational tools. Read More
Dr. Dave Martin has accepted a position at UC Riverside as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and will be joining the department in July 2014. His research will include the development of new catalytic transformations using abundant transition metals, novel strategies for bond activation including photochemical methods, and the synthesis of biologically active natural products...
Mary Nguyen (BS chemistry major) was one of only a few recipients nationwide of the Eli Lilly/WCC Travel Award for her ongoing research with Prof. Catharine Larsen. This highly competitive award supported her travel to the ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis where she gave both a poster and an oral presentation. Mary was also recognized...
Dr. Millar has coauthored a Science paper that identifes the first sterility-inducing queen insect pheromones. The pheromones are found to be consevred across different insect species in which nonvolatile saturated hydrocarbons are used to advertise fecundity and/or to suppress worker reproduction. Read More