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  • Dr. Dmitry A. Fishman selected as Optica Fellow
  • Robert W. Taft Memorial Lecture with Professor Joe Fox
  • Donald Gauthier receives inaugural Dean’s Excellence in Industrial Leadership Award
  • From Triton to Anteater: An interview with Seth Cohen, the new dean of the UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences
  • Professor Zhi-Hao Cui joins UC Irvine Department of Chemistry
  • Professor Kieron Burke receives Pariser Award in Theoretical Chemistry
  • Professor Sergey Nizkorodov honored as AGU Fellow
  • Connecting Chemistry, Leadership, and Industry
  • Assistant Professor Zhihao Cui Named 2026 Regional Finalist in the Blavatnik Regional Awards for Young Scientists
  • Chemistry Professor Bill Evans Wins LeCoq Boisbaudran Award
  • Graduate Student Kaitlyn Dold wins Awards/Recognitions
  • New Swan Science Faire with AirUCI
  • Work led by Aleks Noskov featured as cover story of ACS Photonics
  • Chemistry Professor Kieron Burke receives ACS recognition
  • Upcoming New Swan Science Faire with AirUCI
  • Professor Sergey Pronin hosts BMS Symposium
  • Sir Martyn Poliakoff (CBE) features Josh Queen's research in YouTube video
  • Capturing Carbon Dioxide | Ciara Gillis student research spotlight
  • Chemistry professors welcome AP Chemistry students to campus
  • #IamPhysSci: Jackson Brunicardi
  • Professors Suzanne Blum & Kenneth J. Shea explain the science behind the Garden Grove chemical tank crack
  • Chemistry postdoctoral scholar Cary Stennett receives ACS recognition
  • Research group co-led by Professor Shane Ardo develops first-of-its-kind ion pump
  • Cholsoon Jang receives the 9th Hansung Science Award
  • Mel Nguyen leads successful 2026 STEM Summit for Chem Academy
  • Professors Jennifer Prescher & Matt Griffin host the 2nd Greater Los Angeles Area Chemical Biology Symposium
  • Congratulations to the award winners at the 2026 Undergraduate Awards Ceremony!
  • Remembering Francois William Primeau
  • Research article by Chemistry grad student and research scientist makes cover of APL Photonics
  • Congratulations to our retirees!
  • Congratulations to the 2026 E.K.C. Lee Event award winners!
  • Professor Maxx Arguilla receives $200K grant from the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities to advance research into nanoscale crystalline materials
  • Chemistry Professor Matthew Griffin receives $50,000 early-career award to study new targets for the next generation of antimicrobial agents
  • Brooke Antonia Dorsey, Department of Chemistry PhD student, receives prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award
  • Jennifer Prescher wins the Research Corporation for Science Advancement's Impact Award!
  • Seth Cohen to become new dean of UC Irvine's School of Physical Sciences
  • Professor Ann Marie Carlton named AAAS Fellow!
  • Professor Elizabeth Jarvo named AAAS Fellow!
  • Remembering Rob Schurko
  • Congratulations to Professor Seu Sim who has been named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow!
  • Warren Hehre, a former member of the Department of Chemistry, has passed away.
  • Maxx Arguilla Awarded Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) from Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
  • Graduate student Audrey Miles travels to D.C. with the nuclear engineering student delegation.
  • Celia Faiola awarded the prestigious Kenneth T. Whitby Award!
  • Professor Matthew Griffin receives NIH New Innovator Award
  • Maxx Arguilla Wins 2026 ACS National Fresenius Award
  • Robert “Bob” Doedens, UC Irvine Professor of Chemistry, dies age 87
  • Kieron Burke Appointed Interim Dean of the School of Physical Sciences
  • School of Physical Sciences welcomes four new faculty members
  • Liz Jarvo and Sergey Nizkorodov were awarded the title of Chancellor’s Professor!
  • Liz Jarvo earned the Distinguished Faculty Award for Mentorship
  • Barbara Finlayson-Pitts was named the Academic Senate Better World Awardee
  • Bill Evans received the Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr. Distinguished University Service Award
  • Dr. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts wins 2025 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award
  • Sergey Nizkorodov Receives Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Fostering of Undergraduate Research
  • Liran Zhu selected for the 2025 USNCO Study Camp!
  • Professor Kenneth J. Shea to receive the Tolman Medal
  • Paper co-authored by Professor Burke in 1996 is one of the top four cited in 2023
  • Professor Arguilla named a fellow for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Young Observers program by the US National Committee through the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ph.D. student Diana Lopez receives LEAD graduate student excellence award
  • Professor James Nowick selected as the recipient of the 2024 Biopolymers Murray Goodman Memorial Prize
  • Knowledge Acquisition Center (KnAC) provides help for undergrads
  • Congratulations to Awardees Recognized at Annual Lee Dinner
  • Grad student Gianmarc Grazioli goes viral with "Chemist's Know"

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UC Irvine
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01-14-27 3:30 pm
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01-19-27 11:00 am
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Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
01-21-27 3:30 pm
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02-04-27 3:30 pm
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03-03-27 4:00 pm
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Colorado State University
04-20-27 3:30 pm
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University of Utah
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04-27-27 3:30 pm
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05-04-27 3:30 pm
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05-20-27 3:30 pm
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The Pennsylvania State University
05-27-27 3:30 pm
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Research Highlights

Sophia Xu from the Dong Lab is first author of JACS publication "Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Hydroacylation: Racemization by Soft Enolization"
Connecting the Dots: Law Group shows how quantum dots fuse to form 3D single-crystalline superlattices.
Yang group's studies of stable molecular catalyst on cover of JACS

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