Department of Chemistry

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...

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...

Santanu Sarkar, a UCR chemistry graduate student in the group of Prof. Robert Haddon, has been named as one of the finalists for the highly prestigious international Reaxys PhD Prize for 2013. He has been invited to attend and present his work at the Reaxys PhD Prize Symposium and Poster Session which will be held...

Qiao Zhang, a PhD student recently graduated from Prof. Yadong Yin's group, has been selected by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) to receive one of the five 2013 IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists. According to IUPAC, the prizes are given for the most outstanding Ph.D. theses in the general area of...

Pauline Olsen, a third-year undergraduate biochemistry-chemistry major, has been recognized as one of the 2013 UCR Chancellor's Research Fellows. Pauline's research, conducted under the guidance of Dr. Jack Eichler in the department of chemistry, generally aims to investigate the potential anticancer properties of gold(III) coordination complexes. Her previous research in the lab focused on investigating...

Brooke Wilson graduated from UCR in 2011 with a B.S. degree in Chemistry and moved to Houston, Texas soon thereafter. Her education and overall experiences obtained at UCR within the classroom, laboratory, and also during her tenure as an undergraduate researcher with Professor Paul Ziemann, provided her with ample knowledge to enter the competitive job...

Assistant Professor Richard Hooley has been awarded the 2013 Chancellor's Award for Fostering Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement. This award is intended to recognize his contributions to mentoring undergraduate research students in a laboratory setting. Professor Hooley's research interests lie in the synthesis of nanoscale molecular receptors, the study of their properties and...

Andrew Carlson is UCR's recipient of the American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry's Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry for 2013. The award is intended to recognize senior students who display a significant aptitude for organic chemistry and to encourage further interest in the field. Andrew is completing his research on novel luciferins in the...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. The atom-sized world of carbon nanotubes holds great promise for a future demanding smaller and faster electronic components. Nanotubes are stronger than steel and smaller than any element of silicon-based electronics—the ubiquitous component of today’s electrical devices—and have better conductivity, which means they can potentially process information faster while using less energy. The...

Professor and Chemistry Department chair Cynthia K. Larive has been appointed as an editor of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. Dr. Larive joins Prof. Sylvia Daunert, University of Miami, and Dr. Stephen Wise, NIST, as the North American editors of the journal. The mission of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry is the rapid publication of excellent and...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Anticancer drugs save lives and/or improve the quality of life for many cancer patients. Many anti-cancer drugs work by killing tumor cells after inducing damage to DNA. The public has an opportunity to learn about the mechanisms of action of some commonly used anticancer drugs and how laboratory research may lead to...

Grace received a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from UCR in 2006 under the mentorship of Prof. Yinsheng Wang. Her thesis was on nucleosomal protein study using mass spectrometry and biochemical techniques. Dr. Grace Jiang joined Amgen in 2006 as a Scientist in Process and Product Development. Amgen is a leading biotechnology company dedicated to deliver...

Research by UC Riverside scientists have found that the optical transparency of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) films coated with a layer of an ionic liquid (IL) can be dramatically increased or decreased depending on the sign of the applied electrical potential. The change of transparency can be uniform across the SWNT thin film and utilized...

Dr. Jack Eichler will receive the 2013 Innovative Teaching Award on May 1st, 2013 for his lecture on "Pedagogies of Engagement in Large Enrollment Introductory Course". See link for Abstract. Read More

Mary Nguyen, a junior in Chemistry and a University Honors student at UC Riverside, has been selected as a 2013 Barry Goldwater Scholarship recipient. The Goldwater Scholarship provides $7500 for juniors to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, or engineering, and to foster excellence in those fields. In interviewing Mary...

Le He, a fifth year graduate student of the Yin group won a Graduate Student Award and a Poster Award at the 2013 Materials Research Society spring meeting in San Francisco. The MRS Graduate Student Awards recognize students of exceptional ability who show promise for significant future achievement in materials research. Le presented his work...

On 3/29 three graduate students of the Bartels Lab received prestigious fellowships: MSE student Chen Wang and EE student Miguel Isarraraz received National Science Foundation graduate fellowships for studies on the catalytic and electronic properties, respectively, of molybdenum disulfide and related materials. Physics student Jon Wyrick received a National Research Council Postdoctoral fellowship for scanning...

Dr. Susan Srivatsa is the Founder and President of ElixinPharma, a pharmaceutical regulatory consulting firm that provides scientific and technical leadership in the area of Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) for a number of leading companies in various stages of clinical development. The firm specializes in supporting the development of novel technologies such as DNA...