Chemistry graduate student Consuelo Beecher was among the nearly 4000 attendees at the SACNAS national conference held Oct. 11-14 in Seattle. Consuelo received a SACNAS travel award to attend the meeting and present a poster on her research. Read More
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Cindy Larive, chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, is well known for her work in bioanalytical chemistry, including research on the stress response of plants to flooding and drought and methods for detecting whether fruit juices have been “watered down” with cheaper ingredients. But recently, it’s...
Yinsheng Wang's group has developed a method called "competitive transcription and adduct bypass"or CTAB, that can help explain how DNA damage arising from anticancer drugs and environmental chemicals leads to cancer development. Professor Wang's paper in Nature Chemical Biology describes how DNA modifications lead to aberrant transcription and ultimately a disruption in protein synthesis and...
Catharine Larsen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, will present the first lecture in a quarterly series named "The Science of Art," to begin July 1, 2010 at the Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Ave. Her talk entitled "Our Amazing Eyes" will be presented three times - at 7 pm, 7:30 pm, and 8 pm. Admission...
COLR technology developed by UCR Chemistry professor Yadong Yin will be developed jointly by BASF and Idea Zoo, a technology licensing firm. This technology is based on colloidal iron-oxide-based nanocrystals that form a lattice of clusters. A magnetic field can be used to alter the spacing between the lattice changing the wavelengths of light refracted...
Professor Beran will receive the 2012 OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award from the ACS Computers in Chemistry division at the Fall ACS meeting for his development of an accurate and computationally practical strategy for modeling molecular crystals. Read More
Graduate students Zhenda Lu and Qiao Zhang both receive the Graduate Student Awards in the 2012 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting in San Francisco.
C&ENews (April 23, 2012) highlights the versatile carbene chemistry of Guy Bertrand, and credits the growth of this field to Bertrands synthesis of the first isolable free carbene. Read More
Manufactured by all plant and animal cells, enzymes are proteins that work as catalysts in biochemical reactions, dramatically increasing the reaction rates. All cells require enzymes to survive and function. Without enzymes we would not be able to breathe, swallow, drink, eat, or digest our food. Yet, molecular-level details of enzyme mechanisms remain elusive. Leonard...
Professor Wang has been selected to receive the inaugural Chemical Research in Toxicology Young Investigator Award (15yrs since PhD), co-sponsored by the ACS journal Chemical Research in Toxicology and the ACS Division of Chemical Toxicology. Read More
The National Science Foundation Awarded Assistant Professor Richard Hooley a Career Award for work entitled Functional Metal-Ligand Assemblies: Self-Sorting, Supramolecular Catalysis and Molecular Dynamics
Professor Jason Cheng has been selected to receive the 2011 Chancellor Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research. Students characterize their interaction with Professor Cheng as career transforming and they express great appreciation for his mentoring. Read More
The American Association for the Advancement of Science named five new fellows from UCR in 2011 including Yinsheng Wang, Professor of Chemistry. Read More
Congratulations to Dr. Larive for her selection as a 2011 Fellow of the American Chemical Society. The ACS Fellows Program recognizes outstanding achievements in and contributions to Science, the Profession, and Society. The 2011 Fellows will be honored at the ACS National Meeting in Denver. Read More
Professor Greg Beran has been selected as the 2011 University Honors Professor of the Year. Student nominations cited both his teaching in Honors General Chemistry, and his faculty-mentoring of undergraduate honors research.
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.