Rowland Endowed Chair and Fellowship Fund
An endowed chair and fellowship fund will facilitate the opportunity to recruit and retain the world's premier chemists and students to build on UCI's tradition of world-changing research. Learn more about the campaign for an Endowed Chair & Fellowship Fund In Honor of Professor F. Sherwood Rowland at http://ps.uci.edu/rowland.  
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Open Chemistry is UCI's chemistry curriculum offered free to the world!
Developed as part of UCI’s commitment to fostering learning globally through a collaborative effort of the UCI School of Physical Sciences and UCI OpenCourseWare, UCI OpenChem provides free and open access to 15 quarter-length undergraduate and select graduate chemistry video lectures.  
http://ps.uci.edu/content/open-chemistry
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Chemists discover ozone-boosting reaction
AirUCI is an Environmental Molecular Sciences Institute funded by the National Science Foundation. Director Barbara Finlayson-Pitts and colleagues found new chemistry that increases ozone formation, missing from existing models of choking smog.
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Going for gold
Gold nanowires can activate a credit card or launch a missile. Ervin Meneses, a 17-year old summer intern, grows gold-coated filaments 1,000th the width of a human hair. 
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Message from Chair Scott D. Rychnovsky

Welcome to the UCI Department of Chemistry! Located in sunny Orange County, just minutes from the beautiful beaches of Southern California, our department is one of the nation's largest producers of graduates with B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry. We have a commitment to excellence in research and instruction, and our faculty members have won numerous awards. Our research programs range from investigating the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere to visualizing individual molecules.  Our friendly and collegial environment provides an excellent climate for research students to pursue their studies. 

Research Highlights

clathrate paper
Professors Janda and Fleischer solve two major issues in the clathrate field. The first issue is to be able to predict what type of clathrate any...
hanessian highlight
This sandfly carries the parasite Leishmania donovani as a promastigote, responsible for infections in humans. The semi-synthetic 6′-...