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News and Events
| Sep 25, 2009 |
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Larry Overman, who has been selected to receive the 2010 Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods!
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| Sep 23, 2009 |
Professor John Hemminger has been elected to the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society. The recognition was bestowed at the Fall ACS meeting. [ http://pubs.acs.org/cen/acsnews/87/8730acs.html ] |
| Sep 23, 2009 |
Katrine Gorham, a recent Ph.D. from the Blake research group, has been awarded an Outstanding Student Paper Award for her presentation at the AGU 2009 Joint Assembly in Toronto.
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| Sep 23, 2009 |
Connor Martin, a graduate student in the Overman research group has been selected as the recipient of an ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship, sponsored by Amgen.
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| Sep 01, 2009 |
The reserach programs of Profs. Liz Jarvo, Chris Vanderwal, and Suzanne Blum create a Synergy of Synthetic Chemistry in an ACS-PRF feature story. [ http://www.acsprf-ar.org/STORIES/story4.html ] |
| Jul 08, 2009 |
Congratulations to Professor Bill Evans on his recent election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).
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| Jun 03, 2009 |
The 2009 UC Irvine Bristol-Myers Squibb Symposium takes place on Wednesday 3 June at 1:30 pm in MacDonnell Douglas Auditorium. Our distinguished speakers for this event are Dr. Lori Spangler (Bristol-Myers Squibb), Aaron Kushner (UCI, 2009 Moore Award Recipient), and Professor Erik Sorensen (Princeton University). Please join us for a great afternoon of organic chemistry!
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| May 29, 2009 |
The Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry 2008 has been awarded to Professor Larry Overman in recognition of his creative and innovative contributions in reaction design, notably the invention of cationic cyclization reactions such as the aza-Cope-Mannich reaction. [ http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/P04_116.cws_home/tetprize ] |
| May 20, 2009 |
Emily Bruns, a graduate student in Professor Finlayson-Pitt’s group, has been awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. These are very hard to get and very prestigious. Well done, Emily...only the beginning of a wonderful career! [ http://www.nsfgrfp.org/ ] |
| May 05, 2009 |
Congratulations to Alan Heyduk who has received a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award for 2009. [ http://www.dreyfus.org/announcements/overview.shtml ] |
| Apr 22, 2009 |
Prof. Andy Borovik has accepted an invitation from the Department of Health and Human Services to serve as a member of the Macromolecular Structure and Function A Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. His four-year term begins July 1, 2009. [ http://cms.csr.nih.gov/PeerReviewMeetings/CSRIRGDescriptionNew/BCMBIRG/MSFA.htm ] |
| Apr 13, 2009 |
Congratulations to Don Blake, who will be presented with the UCI Lauds and Laurels award for Faculty Achievement on May 14, 2009. [ http://www.alumni.uci.edu/how_to_get_involved/ll_news.html ] |
| Mar 27, 2009 |
The UCI Pfizer Symposium will be held Friday March 27 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center. Professor Davies (Emory University), Professor Dougherty (California Institute of Technology), Professor Kerr (University of Western Ontario), Professor Marek (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), and Dr Steve Tanis (Pfizer) will present their research. For more information and directions, see: [ http://chem.ps.uci.edu/~pfizer/Symposium_Announcement.html ] |
| Mar 26, 2009 |
Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and AirUCI director, will receive a California air quality award from the Coalition for Clean Air. The Carl Moyer Award for Scientific Leadership and Technical Excellence recognizes her significant contributions toward reducing California’s air pollution. This year, the coalition is honoring visionary women who are working to improve the state’s air quality through advocacy and government, corporate stewardship, media and science. U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis also will receive awards. [ http://www.coalitionforcleanair.org/ ] |
| Feb 26, 2009 |
Congratulations to Ara Apkarian, who was elected a Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. [ http://www.sci.am/members.php?did=6&langid=1 ] |
| Feb 04, 2009 |
John Hemminger briefed national policy makers on the energy/environment crisis. [ http://www.zotwire.uci.edu/ ] |
| Feb 04, 2009 |
Reg Penner has been awarded the 2009 Faraday Medal. The Faraday Medal is currently given annually by the Electrochemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry to an electrochemist working outside the UK in recognition of their outstanding original contributions and innovation in any field of electrochemistry. The Group has been awarding a Faraday Medal since the early sixties. Winners of the Faraday Medal include J. M. Savéant, H. Gerischer, A. M. Bond, D. Kolb, M. Grätzel and N. Lewis. In conjunction with the award, Prof. Penner will give a plenary lecture in September at the Electrochem 09 conference in Manchester, UK.
[ http://www.rsc.org/ConferencesAndEvents/conference/alldetails.cfm?evid=103451 ] |
| Feb 03, 2009 |
The UCI Novartis Lecture will be held February 18 in the CalIT2 auditorium at 4pm. Professor John Hartwig, from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will present his research. [ http://chem.ps.uci.edu/~novartis/-.html ] |
| Feb 02, 2009 |
Don Blake has been elected a 2009 AGU Fellow. [ http://www.agu.org/ ] |
| Feb 02, 2009 |
Suzanne Blum has received the 2009 Thieme Synlett-Synthesis Journal Award for promising new professors. [ http://www.thieme-chemistry.com/thieme-chemistry/journals/index.shtml ] |
