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...
Prof. Mihri Ozkan, Prof. Cengiz S. Ozkan, and co-workers report a new fluorescence quenching microscopy metrology technique that allows the identification of graphene layers and doped/undoped regions across a large graphene landscape by utilizing the fact that undoped regions of graphene quench fluorescence more than the doped regions through resonant energy transfer. Contrast differences in...
Researchers, including chemists at the University of California, Riverside, have found that the type of skin pigment predominantly found in red-haired, fair-skinned individuals may itself contribute to the development of melanoma, suggesting that blocking UV radiation, which continues to be essential, may not be enough. Several types of the pigment melanin are found in the...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The University of California, Riverside has granted an exclusive license to The Idea Zoo, Inc., to commercialize nanotechnology research developed in the lab of Yadong Yin, an associate professor of chemistry. The Idea Zoo, a leading developer and licensor of advanced materials and technologies headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., was granted exclusive...
A few years ago, the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside decided to increase the relevancy of its introductory chemistry courses and enhance student learning. One solution rose to the top: hire someone whose job would be to focus on the general chemistry program. So in 2010, Jack F. Eichler joined the...
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