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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"
Next Event
Physical Seminar
Deciphering & controlling the mechanisms of energy, charge, & information flow in molecules & nanomaterials
Andres Montoya-Castillo
University of Colorado Boulder
05-05-26 3:30 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Design and Application of New Pericyclic Strategies
Christopher Newton
University of Georgia
05-06-26 4:00 pm
RH 104
Inorganic Seminar
Controlling Electrocatalytic Outcomes via Speciation, Second Coordination Spheres, and Interfacial Design
Eva Nichols
University of British Columbia
05-14-26 3:30 pm
RH 104
PhD defense
Logan Brennan PhD Defense
Logan Brennan
Law group
05-15-26 1:00 pm
ISEB 1200
Industrial Recruiting
Industrial Recruiting - Merck Research Laboratories
05-21-26 9:00 am
Special Seminar
E.K.C. Lee Event
Aaron J. Rossini
Iowa State University
05-21-26 4:00 pm
Crystal Cove Auditorium
PhD defense
Erin Fuller PhD Defense
Erin Fuller
05-22-26 9:00 am
NS2 2201
PhD defense
Jessica Granger-Jones PhD Defense
Jessica Granger-Jones
Finkeldei group
05-22-26 2:30 pm
ISEB 1200
PhD defense
Julia Balsamo PhD Defense
Julia Balsamo
05-22-26 3:00 pm
NS2 2201
Physical Seminar
Approaching Acrylic Copolymer Structures Differently
Adrian Figg
Virginia Tech
05-26-26 3:30 pm
RH 104
PhD defense
Tanya Hadjian PhD Defense
Tanya Hadjian
05-27-26 3:00 pm
NS2 2201
PhD defense
Matthew Schubach PhD Defense
Matthew Schubach
Pronin group
05-28-26 11:00 am
ISEB 1310
PhD defense
Zhen Huang PhD Defense
Zhen Huang
05-28-26 3:00 pm
PhD defense
Tryptophan oxidation in γS-crystallin: implications for age-related cataract
Yeonseong (Catherine) Seo
06-01-26 4:00 pm
ISEB 1200
PhD defense
Jonas Enders PhD Defense
Jonas Enders
Murray group
06-02-26 11:00 am
ISEB 1200
Organic Seminar
TBD
Tina Wang
University of Wisconsin-Madison
06-03-26 4:00 pm
RH 104
Inorganic Seminar
Exploiting protein-ligand interactions for radiometal labeling and f-element coordination control
Rebecca Abergel
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
06-04-26 3:30 pm
RH 104
PhD defense
Lena Gerritz PhD Defense
Lena Gerritz
06-16-26 2:00 pm
NS2 2201
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
