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News

  • 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
  • #IamPhysSci: Jackson Brunicardi
  • Professors Suzanne Blum & Kenneth J. Shea explain the science behind the Garden Grove chemical tank crack
  • Chemistry professors welcome AP Chemistry students to campus
  • 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
  • Remembering Francois William Primeau
  • Congratulations to the award winners at the 2026 Undergraduate Awards Ceremony!
  • 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!
  • Barbara Finlayson-Pitts was named the Academic Senate Better World Awardee
  • Bill Evans received the Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr. Distinguished University Service Award
  • Liz Jarvo earned the Distinguished Faculty Award for Mentorship
  • 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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Organic Seminar
Organic Seminar: Beyond Total Synthesis: An Unplanned Journey into Organo-Bismuth Chemistry
Viresh Rawal
University of Chicago
10-07-26 4:00 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Robert W. Taft Memorial Lecture: Chemoselective, Site-Selective, and Catalytically Controlled Tetrazine Ligations
Joe Fox
University of Delaware
10-14-26 4:00 pm
ISEB Auditorium
Inorganic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar: mm-Wave pulse EPR spectroscopy of high spin transition metal centers
R. David Britt
UC Davis
10-15-26 3:30 pm
RH 104
Inorganic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar with Dean Seth Cohen
Dean Seth Cohen
UC Irvine
10-22-26 3:30 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Organic Seminar: Development of catalyst systems enabling sp3 C‒H functionalization reactions
Harunobu Mitsunuma
Kobe University
10-23-26 3:00 pm
NS1 4112
PhD defense
Hernan Gomez PhD Defense
Hernan Gomez
Palczewski group
10-23-26 3:30 pm
Organic Seminar
Organic Seminar
Jeffrey Lipshultz
Stony Brook University
10-28-26 4:00 pm
RH 104
PhD defense
Leslie Liu PhD Defense
Leslie Liu
Guan group
10-29-26 2:00 pm
ISEB 1310
Inorganic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar
Ioannis Spanopoulos
University of South Florida
10-29-26 3:30 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Organic Seminar
Nicholas Truex
University of South Carolina
11-04-26 4:00 pm
RH 104
PhD defense
Maria Sophia Teresa Lee Padilla PhD Defense
Maria Sophia Teresa Lee Padilla
Nowick group
11-13-26 2:30 pm
Physical Seminar
Physical Seminar
Anna Krylov
University of Southern California
11-17-26 3:30 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Organic Seminar
Andrea Merg
UC Merced
11-18-26 4:00 pm
RH 104
PhD defense
Giselle Bauer PhD Defense
Giselle Bauer
Sheldon group
11-24-26 9:00 am
PhD defense
Giselle Bauer PhD Defense
Giselle Bauer
Sheldon group
11-24-26 11:00 am
NS2 2201
Physical Seminar
Physical Seminar
Mikael Backlund
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
11-24-26 3:30 pm
RH 104
Physical Seminar
Physical Seminar
Xiaoji Xu
Stony Brook University
12-01-26 3:30 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Organic Seminar
Elias Picazo
University of Southern California
12-02-26 4:00 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Hao Xu
Brandeis
12-04-26 3:00 pm
NS1 4112
Physical Seminar
Physical Seminar
Liza Lee
UC Irvine
01-05-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Organic Seminar
Chi Ting
Brandeis University
01-06-27 4:00 pm
RH 104
Inorganic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar
Gwendolyn Bailey
University of Minnesota
01-07-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Physical Seminar
Physical Seminar
Tim Bertram
University of Wisconsin
01-12-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Organic Seminar
Filippo Romiti
UT Dallas
01-13-27 4:00 pm
RH 104
Physical Seminar
Physical Seminar
Joel Thornton
University of Washington
01-19-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Organic Seminar
Erik Alexanian
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
01-27-27 4:00 pm
RH 104
Inorganic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar
Noémie Elgrishi
Louisiana State University
01-28-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Physical Seminar
Physical Seminar
Greg Voth
University of Chicago
02-02-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Inorganic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar
Woon Ju Sung
Seoul National University
02-04-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Physical Seminar
Physical Seminar
Megan Jackson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
02-09-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Organic Seminar
Brooks Abel
UC Berkeley
02-10-27 4:00 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Organic Seminar
Aaron Teator
Kansas University
02-17-27 4:00 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Amgen Organic Synthesis Lectureship
F. Dean Toste
UC Berkeley
02-23-27 4:00 pm
ISEB 1010 (Auditorium)
Organic Seminar
Amgen Organic Synthesis Lectureship
F. Dean Toste
UC Berkeley
02-24-27 3:00 pm
ISEB 1010 (Auditorium)
Inorganic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar
Joshua Buss
University of Michigan
02-25-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Organic Seminar
Matt DeLisa
Cornell University
03-03-27 4:00 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Organic Syntheses Lecture
Ron Kluger
University of Toronto
03-10-27 4:00 pm
RH 104
Inorganic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar
Julia Stauber
UC San Diego
03-11-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Overman Lecture
Mary and Don Watson
University of Delaware
03-31-27 4:00 pm
RH 104
Organic Seminar
Organic Seminar
Erik Romero
UC San Diego
04-07-27 4:00 pm
RH 104
Inorganic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar
Fraser Armstrong
St. John's College, University of Oxford
04-08-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Physical Seminar
Physical Seminar
Megan Willis
Colorado State University
04-20-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Inorganic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar
Qilei Zhu
University of Utah
04-22-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Physical Seminar
Physical Seminar
Naihao Chiang
University of Houston
04-27-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Physical Seminar
Physical Seminar
Ivan Moreno-Hernandez
Duke University
05-04-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Special Seminar
E.K.C. Lee Lecture


05-13-27 3:30 pm
Student Center Crystal Cove Auditorium
Inorganic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar
Theodore Betley
Harvard University
05-20-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Inorganic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar
Jonathan Kuo
The Pennsylvania State University
05-27-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Physical Seminar
Physical Seminar
Andrea Carlini
UC Santa Barbara
06-01-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
Inorganic Seminar
Inorganic Seminar
Adam Jaffe
University of Notre Dame
06-03-27 3:30 pm
RH 104
SoCal Undergraduate Chemistry Research Symposium


08-10-27 8:00 am
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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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