Julia, Karissa and Sophia, 7th graders at Matthew Gage Middle School, celebrate their 1st place win of the Chemistry Department's sponsored research award at the RUSD Science Fair. Great job ladies!
Applied Materials, Inc., the market leader in solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing equipment, announced that Dr. Charlie Gay, president of Applied's Solar division, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his seminal leadership contributions to the development of the global solar PV industry. Dr. Charlie Gay received his B.S. and Ph.D. in...
Michael Janner, a high school student from Redlands East Valley High School, recently published his research results in Nano Letters, a top tier journal in the field of nanoscience. He worked as a summer intern in Prof. Yadong Yin’s group since 2010. In this paper, he shared the co-first authorship with a graduate student, Qiao...
The University of California, Riverside’s Department of Chemistry has awarded five 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...
Student Joseph Nakatani with Science Teacher Mr. Matt Schiller from Poly High in Riverside celebrate earning the 2nd place Department of Chemistry's Excellence in Research Award for the RUSD 2012 Science and Engineering Fair. Way to go Joseph!
UCR Alumni Dr. Dennis Owsley received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry under the direction of Prof. George Helmkamp. After his graduation he started work at Monsanto in St. Louis where over the next 27 years he participated in successful projects in photochemistry, gas phase/solid state chemistry, process chemistry and discovery, enzyme inhibitors, microbiology, and protein...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have developed a compound that holds much promise in the laboratory in fighting renal (kidney) cancer. Named TIR-199, the compound targets the “ proteasome,” a cellular complex in kidney cancer cells, similar to the way the drug bortezomib, approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
UCR Chemistry alum Dr. Renee Williams has been selected from more than 500 applicants as the recipient of a prestigious UC Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship. A recent graduate from our Department, Dr. Williams received her Ph.D. from UCR in December 2012 under the direction of Prof. Yinsheng Wang.This fellowship will fully fund her postdoctoral research on...
Dr. Hill Harman has accepted a position at UC Riverside as a Assistant Professor of Chemistry and will be joining the department early July, 2013. His research includes the development of new reaction centered on d- and p-block elements for the catalysis of chemical reactions relevant to these broad goals, such as the storage of...
I attended UCR from 2004 to 2009 and majored in chemistry. Studying chemistry at UCR was stimulating and presented a lot of opportunities to participate in undergraduate research. It was here I discovered I had a knack for analytical chemistry and began doing research in Professor Larive’s bioanalytical lab where I learned a variety of...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Three University of California, Riverside scientists and engineers are members of a new national research center — the Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces, and Novel Architectures (C-SPIN) — focused on developing the next generation of microelectronics. Led by the University of Minnesota, C-SPIN is being supported by a five-year $28 million grant...
Awards to: Eric Chronister, Jack Eichler and Richard Hooley. IUIT proposals address planned research and experimentation to develop and evaluate novel ideas that integrate technology with course curriculum and pedagogy. This program is made feasible by the new student technology fee paid by all undergraduate and graduate students at UCR. The program goal is to...
Recent work in the Bartels group showed the growth of a novel Mo2S3 single layer film on a copper surface. This film was found to interact strongly with oxygenate species, much stronger than the basal plane and the edges of MoS2 islands, which are a common catalyst for the production of alcohols from syngas, suggesting...
Dr. Ryan Pedigo graduated from UC Riverside in 2008, receiving his B.A. in Chemistry. During his time at UC Riverside, he taught chemistry through the Learning Center and also participated in research in Dr. Francisco Zaera's lab. Upon graduating, he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and received the Rosemary S.J. Schraer Award for his...
Dr. Tas Dienes is currently Chief Technology Officer at SmartAction, a software company providing intelligent call automation systems via a software-as-a-service (SAAS) model. SmartAction provides an automated system that answers phone calls for other companies, and it uses artificial intelligence to do so in a much smarter, friendlier, and more helpful way than the common...
Congratulation goes to Katherine Djernes on receiving the 2012 ACS Ciba Student Travel Award. Only 4 students in the nation were selected to receive this award. Katherine has a significant green chemistry or sustainability component, to expand the students' education in green chemistry which will be presented in the next ACS meeting. Read More
In October 2012, the AAAS Council elected 701 members as Fellows of AAAS. These individuals will be recognized for their contributions to science and technology at the Fellows Forum to be held on 16 February 2013 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Among the recipients is Dr. Charles Thompson, a Ph.D. UCR Alumni...
Congratulation goes to Prof. Pingyun Feng's on her election to the 2012 class of AAAS Fellows. She is being honored for distinguished contributions to the field of porous inorganic and materials chemistry, particularly for the rational design of semiconducting porous materials and for the advancement of chalcogenide cluster chemistry. Read More
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — When Kerry Hanson from the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside stepped to the front of a third grade classroom at Riverside’s Taft Elementary one day last month, automatically, the students paid attention. They listened, and many shot up their hands when she asked a question. That day, Hanson...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The University of California, Riverside has received three grants from the U.S. Department of Education to assist graduate students with excellent records who demonstrate financial need and plan to pursue the highest degree available in a field of national need. Called “ Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need” (GAANN), the national...