Professor Chia-en Chang has been awarded the NSF CAREER award for her project, "Development and Application of Multi-scale Modeling for Biomolecular Association". This project uses computer modeling to investigate complex interactions among molecules. Understanding association processes will increase our fundamental understanding of bio-molecular binding and its applications. The project will combine multi-level coarse-grained and atomistic...
Dr. Bartels' paper on "2-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides with Tunable Direct Band Gaps: MoS2(1-x)Se2x Monolayers," gets published in Advanced Materials. His paper describes the creation of MoS2(1-x)Se2x single-layer films and how the material becomes a natively semiconductor film that can readily be fabricated into transistors. Read More
KNX1070 Radio interview-Professor of Chemistry, Cindy Larive explains the science behind sugar candy and its processes. To hear the interview, check out the link: Read More
Consuelo Beecher, a UCR Chemistry graduate student working with Professor Cindy Larive, has received the 2013 Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans Student Presentation Award. She was honored for her outstanding presentation at the 2013 SACNAS National Conference in San Antonio, Texas, titled Profiling Enoxaparin SEC Fractions By Probing for 3-O-Sulfo Oligosaccharides...
Graduated from UC Riverside in 1972 with B.S. degrees in both Chemistry and Biochemistry. Mr. Weir has over 40 years of experience in the management, planning, operation, and maintenance of water, wastewater, and recycled water facilities. He currently serves as an independent consultant following nearly 20 years as General Manager for East Bay Dischargers Authority...
Yu-Ming Mindy Huang, a UCR chemistry graduate student in the group of Prof. Chia-en Chang, has won the NVIDIA GPU Poster Competition in the Fall 2013 ACS. Mindy's poster was among the top 5 posters selected for the competition during the ACS meeting. Her poster " Pathways and mechanism of drugs binding to HIV-1 protease."...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. ( www.ucr.edu) — Eighteen faculty members from the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have recently been awarded a total of $9.6 million in research grants by federal agencies. Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Robert Haddon has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his...
Jack Eichler, LPSOE in the UCR Department of Chemistry, has been selected as a recipient of the 2014 ACS-Committee on Environmental Improvement Award for Incorporating Sustainability into Chemistry Education. He was recognized for his previous work in designing and implementing a laboratory experience that gave students the opportunity to measure ground level ozone concentrations, and...
Dr. Michael Marsella has been appointed to the campus' Academy of Distinguished Teachers, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. Six faculty members are selected to join the academy to serve as an advisory group to the provost on teaching excellence and provide institutional leadership and guidance. Members serve as teaching mentors for new faculty and by...
runs Livermore Instruments Inc., a company that he and his colleagues formed to commercialize a technology that he began working on as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow at the University of California, Riverside in the mid 1990s. The technology, called Single Particle Aerosol Mass Spectrometry, or SPAMS, is a way of instantaneously analyzing tiny particles...
Our Department was selected to be the recipient of Beckman Coulter's Biopharma to Education Grant, and awarded a recertified PA 800 Protein Characterization System. In their proposal to this education grant, Dr. Wenwan Zhong and Dr. Huiwang Ai described how they would use this instrument to implement capillary electrophoresis (CE) in our upper division Chem125...
Chemistry faculty did well in the recent UCR Collaborative Seed Grant Program run by the Research and Economic development program. The purpose of the seed grants is to provide funds to enable teams of UCR faculty to collaborate and publish before grant submission, making UCR more competitive for multi-investigator grants from external agencies. Of the...
A postcard-size sign hangs from the ceiling of the second floor of Pierce Hall on the University of California, Riverside campus. It says: “GLASS SHOP.” The shop is the domain of Stan Sheldon, the university’s scientific glass blower. Scientific is the key word. Sheldon makes custom glass pieces for chemists, engineers and other researchers on...
Stacie Eldridge is an Associate Faculty of Chemistry and serves as the current Advisor of the RCC Gender and Sexualities Awareness Club. Stacie attended the University of California, Riverside from 2004-09 and graduated with her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry under the advisement of Dr. Cynthia Larive. In 2006 she was the recipient of travel awards...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The University of California, Riverside was recognized this week as one of the top 150 universities in the world with the release of the annual Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities. Overall, UCR was placed in the 101–150 range among the 500 ranked schools. The survey, which uses transparent...
Dean of Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas, continues a lifelong fascination with chemistry that has influenced both his professional and personal pursuits since his days as a University of California, Riverside student in the late 1960s. After earning a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at UCR in 1970, Wolinsky completed a doctorate...
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Huiwang Ai has been recently selected as a Hellman Fellow at UCR Riverside for 2013-14. Ai will receive a $30,000 grant to support his research project, "Spatiotemporal control of metal ion signaling with engineered proteins", which will explore ways to enable optogenetic regulation of cell signaling. The Hellman Fellows program...
Thanks to generous donations by UCR Chemistry alumni John Precht and Eddie Seo, three of our undergraduate students are working 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...
UCR Chemistry Major Class of 1964 retired in Aug. 2012 after 31 years’ service at the US Army Natick Soldier Center in Natick, Mass. Dr. Dunne’s long standing role as the Senior Advisor for Nutritional Biochemistry & Advanced Processing in the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Directorate (CFD) brought wide recognition to himself and the...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Yinsheng Wang, a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, has received the Biemann Medal, awarded by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) to an individual early in his or her career in recognition of significant achievement in basic or applied mass spectrometry. Wang received the medal and gave...