Dr. Jonathan Ashby, a graduate of Dr. Wenwan Zhong's research group, has received the 2015 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, a highly selective fellowship administered by the National Research Council (NRC). The awarded individuals must have demonstrated superior academic achievement, be committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, shown...
Three graduate students working under the direction of Chemistry faculty have received five year NSF Graduate Research Fellowships that provides a $32K annual stipend plus tuition support. Jessica McKinley is working on computational chemistry under the direction of Prof. Beran, while Katie Magnone and Ariana Nguyen are working on materials chemistry under the direction of...
Erik Romero was UCR's recipient of the American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award for 2014. Erik carried out his undergraduate research in Prof. Morton's laboratory. Erik's University Honors Program (UHP) thesis was of high quality, embodying not only his research at UCR, but also his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory (supported by a 2013 UCR...
The UCR Chem Club has been recognized as an honorable mention by the American Chemical Society for the second consecutive year. Student chapters receive special recognition on the basis of their programs and activities. UCR was also recognized as a green chapter due to a successful battery recycling program during the 2013-2014 academic year. Though...
Michael Pirrung's work preparing complex organic molecules has a whole host of potential applications, from creating flavors and fragrances, to providing new life-saving cancer and HIV treatments. By inhibiting the proteasome, a huge molecular machine found in each cell, his research has developed a promising new compound for treating kidney cancer. Read More
Thanks to generous donations by UCR Chemistry alumni John Precht and Eddie Seo, three of our undergraduate students worked 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 year’s...
Senior chemistry major Krystal Vasquez has been selected to receive an ACS Scholars Award. The ACS Scholars Program awards about 100 renewable scholarships nationwide to students interested in pursuing a career in chemical sciences. Read More
Six undergraduate students presented research posters at the 2014 Research In Science and Engineering (RISE) Symposium on work mentored by chemistry faculty (Mueller, Switzer, Ai, Zhong, Chronister, Millar). Read More
UCR Chemistry is ranked 47th in the Academic Rankings of World Universities for 2014. This result is an improvement from the 51-75 ranking from 2012 & 2013. ARWU uses six indicators, including - the number of highly cited researchers, and per capita performance. More than 1200 universities are ranked by ARWU every year. Read More
Professor Yadong Yin and Distinguished Professor Robert Haddon appear on Reuters list of The World's Most Influential Minds of 2014. Researchers earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of Highly Cited Papers - ranking among the top 1% most cited in their subject field. The list can be searched at highlycited.com. Read More
Christopher Roberts, a UCR chemistry graduate student in the group of Prof. Chia-en Chang, has won a Chemical Computing Group Excellence Award at the Fall 2014 ACS meeting. Chris' presentation entitled "Modeling of Enhanced Catalysis in Multienzyme Nanostructures Effects of Molecular Scaffoldings, Spatial Organization, and Concentration" was selected as one of 5 winners from more...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Jocelyn Millar, a professor of entomology and cooperating faculty member in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded the Silver Medal for career achievement by the International Society of Chemical Ecology ( ISCE). Awarded first in 1986, the ISCE Silver Medal is the society’s highest honor...
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