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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
Professor Finkeldei makes the American Nuclear Society's list of 40 under 40!
Professor Arguilla named named a runner-up for the Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Award!
Professors Maxx Arguilla and Digs Ardoña featured in Matter "35 PIs under 35(ish) in materials science"
Undergraduate Chemistry Student Makayla Luevano receives Honorable Mention for ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award for Undergraduate Research
UCI Chemistry Welcomes Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Kimberly Daas
Professor Arguilla selected as a finalist in the Dream Chemistry Award
Professor Ann Marie Carlton Awarded AGU Fellow
Professor Manabu Shiraiwa Awarded the AGU Ascent Award
Professor Jarvo awarded the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award
Griffin Lab awarded a UC Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) Faculty Seed Grant
Chemistry faculty members well represented among Beall Applied Innovation Proof of Product awardees
Congratulations to the Safety Students/Researchers of the Year
Professor Griffin awarded Beckman Young Investigator Award
Three Chemistry Faculty Members featured in OC Business Journal
Professor Scott Rychnovsky to be recognized as Chancellor's Award Winner at UCI Celebration of Teaching Awards Ceremony
A book about Professor Larry Overman in the series “lives in Chemistry" was recently published by the German Chemical Society and GNT Publishers.
Nehal Idris selected as ACS Leader Scholar for the 2024 cohort
Professors Furche and Yang Honored as AAAS Fellows
Congratulations to Chemistry NSF GRFP 2024 Awardees!
Natalie Falco (Griffin Lab) awarded the F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship from NIH
Professor Jenny Yang wins Beall Innovation Award in the Physical Sciences
Rachel Martin awarded EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance
Elizabeth Bess awarded NSF CAREER award!
Maxx Arguilla awarded NSF CAREER award!
Matt Griffin named 2023 Abeloff V Scholar
Professor Ann Marie Carlton awarded the Susanne V. Hering Award
Professor Barbara Finlayson-Pitts awarded the 2023 David Sinclair Award
Professor Jim Smith named Fellow of the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR)
Professor Barbara Finlayson-Pitts to be honored with 2023 Lauds and Laurels Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement
Professor Maxx Arguilla selected as one of C&E News's Talented 12
Jessica Kelz receives UC Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Professor Shaka discusses nuclear power on KUCI podcast
Professor Vy Dong has been appointed as Chancellor's Professor!
Prof. Finlayson-Pitts will receive an honorary doctoral degree from McGill University!
Grant Lai receives Goldwater Scholarship
Suhwan Song's Publication Featured in Nature Communications
Joe Patterson is the recipient of the 2023 Burton Medal from the MSA
Publications come in 3's for graduate student Liz Diessner
Shaul Mukamel appointed as Deputy Editor for Science Advances
Joe Patterson awarded a CAREER Award from the NSF
Seu Sim is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award!
Jessica Kelz awarded Fletcher Jones Fellowship
Professors Blum and Prescher are recipients of 2023 Cope Scholar Awards from the ACS
Three major DOE awards to Chemistry faculty
ACS Recognizes three UCI Chemistry Graduate Students
Professor Ann Marie Carlton is the recipient of a prestigious award from Iota Sigma Pi!
Congratulations to MolSSI Fellows!
Megan Rocha received an F31 fellowship from the NEI
Congratulations to Chemistry 2023 Academic Senate award recipients!
Dr. Ana Garcia interviewed for Forbes Magazine
Jenny Yang named JACS Senior Editor
Professor Donald R. Blake ranked as 20th Top Ranked Scientist in Environmental Science by Research.com
Chemistry Grad Program ranked top 10 by U.S. News
Professor Don Blake to receive the Tolman Medal
Dr. Phil Dennison - Instructor of the Month
Jarvo research group awarded the 2021 SYNLETT Best Paper Award
John Kozlowski awarded Brython Davis Fellowship
Professor Burke explains "one of the most important things in science"
Professor Rachel Martin - Guest on PBS NOVA
Meet Melanie Nguyen, Senior Stockroom Manager for the Department of Chemistry
Professor Maxx Arguilla receives Inclusive Excellence Teaching Award
Professor Rachel Martin elected Fellow of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR)
Paul Joshua Hurst selected to present at the Spring 2022 ACS
Listen to recent interview of Professor David MacMillan, UCI Alum and 2021 Nobel laureate in Chemistry
Professor Don Blake speaks on the HISTORY This Week Podcast
UCI alumnus wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Shaul Mukamel has been elected a Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy
Potma, Fishman research to be featured on cover of APL Photonics
UCI Chemistry selected to join the ACS Bridge Program as an ACS Bridge Partner
Knowledge Acquisition Center (KnAC) provides help for undergrads
Chemistry Faculty Receive Three Academic Senate Distinguished Awards
UCI team receives $1 million Keck Foundation grant to develop tools for RNA observation
In Memoriam: Jorg Meyer
Professor Liz Jarvo receives the Journal of Organic Chemistry’s 2021 Outstanding Article of the Year Award!
Professor Prescher is the newest Associate Editor at ACS Chemical Biology
Congratulations to Chemistry NSF GRFP Awardees!
Chemistry Major Lucy Yang has been awarded a Barry Goldwater Scholarship!
Professor Jenny Yang is the Recipient of the 2021 Inorganic Chemistry Lectureship Award!
Professor Barbara Finlayson-Pitts has been selected as the 74th Assembly District's Woman of the Year!
Professor Ann Marie Carlton named AAAS Roger Revelle Fellow
Professor Ardo leads Cottrell Scholars Collaborative award
Shane Ardo named Beall Applied Innovation Faculty Innovation Fellow
Professor Prescher named a Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group Distinguished Investigator
PhD Student Barry Rich receives prestigious ARCS Scholar Award
Professor Don Blake to receive the UCI Academic Senate Better World Award
Professor Chris Vanderwal named AAAS fellow!
Professor Emeritus Benny Gerber awarded the Gold Medal of the Israel Chemical Society (ICS)
Department of Chemistry Virtual Student and Staff Award Ceremony
Professor Don Blake Wins Better World Award from Academic Senate
UCI Scientists Get ‘Initial Hit’ in Developing Drug to Treat COVID-19
The 10 New Physical Sciences Faculty
Krista Fruehauf - Medium Article - Delivering Drugs to Cancer Patients
Professor Rachel Martin featured in ASBMB Today
Manabu Shiraiwa - Recipient of Kenneth T. Whitby Award
Professor Elizabeth Bess awarded 2020-2021 Hellman Fellowship
Professor Vy Dong honored by Royal Society of Chemistry
Honoring Black Voices: The 2%: Navigating UCI as a Black Student
Pivoting from carnivorous plants to COVID-19
Professor Finlayson-Pitts and Chemistry alumnus Dr. Jason Low discuss Climate Change and COVID-19
Ph.D. student Kirsten Hewitt presents at the virtual ACS Spring National Meeting
Update on the UCI Research Enterprise Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic from VC for Research Pramod Khargonekar
Professor Don Blake named UCI Distinguished Alumnus
Professor Andy Borovik receives the 2019 Tolman Award
Welcome Professor Seunghyun Sim!
Professor Andrej Lupták named Guggenheim fellow
UCI team working on recommendations for effective do-it-yourself face masks
Essential research continues in several Chemistry labs
Professor Steve Mang chosen as 2020 Celebration of Teaching Dean's Honoree
Renee Link awarded 2020 Tom Angell Fellowship
Congratulations to NSF GRFP award winners and honorable mentions!
Chemistry faculty launch antiviral research project
Professor Martin lectures on COVID-19 3/13/20
Message to the Department of Chemistry 3/18/20
Message from the Chair 3/14/20
Chemistry update on COVID-19 response 3/7/20
Joe Gonzalez - 2020 AAAS Student E-Poster Competition Winner
Chris Vanderwal selected as the winner of the Springer Heterocyclic Chemistry Award 2020.
UCI chemists find fungal shrapnel in the air
Professor Bess named Scialog Fellow by Research Corporation (RCSA)
Dr. Shaul Mukamel awarded 2020 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
Professor Jenny Yang to lead Sloan Foundation Study
Prescher Group publishes on new Bioorthogonal Chemistries
Prescher Research Group published in ACS for New Discovery
Graduate student Marc Sprague-Piercy receives Gilliam Fellowship
Brenna Biggs has been selected as a Carbon Neutrality Initiative (CNI) Fellow for the 2019-20 academic year
Congratulations to the Department of Chemistry Undergraduate and TA Award Recipients
Congratulations to Awardees Recognized at Annual Lee Dinner
Steve Mang receives award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education
Weiss-Allergan collaboration wins ICTS award
Professor Finlayson-Pitts awarded the 2019 Environment Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry
Rowland and Molina's planet saving research featured in PBS documentary
UCI News features PhD student Jessica Kelz
Sergey Pronin Receives NSF CAREER Award!
Manabu Shiraiwa selected as an ES&T letters Early Career Scientist
Manabu Shiraiwa featured in Chemistry World Magazine
Dong research group published in JACS for exciting discovery
Tobias and Shiraiwa group collaboration highlighted in Chemical Science
Professor Fleischer honored in important review article
Kellen's Kartub's Instagram featured by C&E News
Guan Group Research Highlighted in C&EN's "Research of the Year"
Dong research group makes exciting new discovery
Congratulations to Professors Freeman and Chaput on being named AAAS fellows!
UCI research on supercharging directed evolution published in Cell Journal
Professor Manabu Shiraiwa receives the Walter A. Rosenblith New Investigator Award
Shea Lab research in New York Times
Annmarie Carlton is a rising star
Three Graduate Students Awarded Prestigious Energy Research Opportunities
Professor Vy Dong to receive the 2019 ACS E.J. Corey Award
Professor Prescher named Scialog Fellow by Research Corporation (RCSA)
Mukamel Q&A with PNAS
Ardo wins DOE Early Career Award
Manabu makes planet great again
Growing graduates
Undergrad in UCI news
Grand opening of IMRI
Senate recognizes faculty
Undergrad is ACS scholar
New Chem Professor
Grad papers are finalists
Innovative Profs
Grad wows RSC
Blum is outstanding
Alum does good
Grads win teaching awards
Dong and Evans lauded
Chems win NSF Fellowships
Opportunity for HS Teachers
Grads win at UC symposium
Grad wins ACS travel award
Grad leadership coach
Grads win travel award
Grad wins Genentech award
Ogata wins UCI Grad Slam
Jenny wins Sloan
Happy Fellow
Garg is top teacher
Borovik lauded
Machine learned DFT very notable
Ho, ho, ho, happy holidays
Making molecular monsters
Chem 216 class photo
Grad wins prize from GWIS
Grad alum is Reddit leader
Finlayson-Pitts and Ge memorialize Marie Curie
Hemminger named FHI scientific member
Three faculty named AAAS fellows
Honor for Rob Corn
Grad Woen wins DOE fellowship
Evans interviewed by C & EN
Borovik wins Cotton award
Grad Windroff Pu research
Bannan wins ACS/Merck award
Jim Smith wins Liu Award
Finlayson-Pitts wins Polanyi medal
Kieron elected to IAQMS
Rising star
Spitale named Pew Scholar
SoCal Undergraduate Research Symposium
Manabu awarded NSF Career grant
Shaul gets hon doc from Chicago
Furche is Excellent Undergrad Mentor
UCI hat-trick
Shea makes a POP
UCI scores British hat-trick
Dreyfus for Aron
Newcomb wins grad slam
ACS dedication 4pm RH
Renee Link Prof of the Year
Fabian fellowship
Kim wins poster competition
Gianmarc shreds science
Vanderwal wins Katritsky award
4 outstanding students
Hinks wins UCI Fellowship
Shea lab into voodoo?
Burke becomes FRSC
Hemminger honored by DOE
Double-header for Ardo
Shaul wins OSA award
Mass spectrometry job at UCI
Rob wins analytic award
UCI chemistry double header
Dong group mannequin video
Sheryl Tsai elected AAAS fellow
Matt Law wins large UC grant
Thirsty?
Suryn featured as pedagogical fellow
Undergrad wins poster competition
Ardo awarded Beall and Moore
20th anniversary of PBE
Don Blake in OC Register
Undergrad named ACS scholar
Hinks wins ACS Competition
Honor for Jeff O'Brien
Olshansky an ACS Sigal Fellow
Prescher schools LA Rams
Cope award for Vanderwal
Finlayson-Pitts wins Olin Medal
Honor for Jenn Prescher
Another NSF Fellowship!
Our chair becomes an ACS fellow
Another NSF-JSPS fellowship!
Konev wins fellowship
Honor for Shane Parker
Honor for Aaron Esser-Kahn
Three Profs Recognized
Kim selected for Grad symposium
Amanda is UCI lecturer of the year
UC-wide Grad slam silver medal
Benny elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences
Yang wins NSF Career Award
Dong honored by Iota Sigma Pi
Finlayson-Pitts recognized by Iota Sigma Pi
UCI batting above average
5 lucky winners
Huge award to Esser-Kahn to develop new vaccine for Q-fever
ACS Reception - March 15
Gorodetsky wins a PECASE
Award for Reg Penner
Fulbright for Sergey
Honor for Zhibin Guan
Honor for Reg Penner
Sandra wins fellowship
Grad Laura Rios wins presentation award
Sergey elected fellow of AAAS
Honor for Jennifer Prescher
Honor for Tran Nguyen
Overman wins Ryoji Noyori Prize
Ig Nobel for Greg Weiss
New job for Rob Corn
Honor for Jennifer Prescher
Kamber rocks!
Award for Cory Windorff
Ho, ho, ho, he, he, he!
Chang Liu named Beckman Young Investigator
UCI grad named The Oxidation Agent
Honor for Bill Evans
Shaul wins Bomem-Michelson award
Honor for Aaron Esser-Kahn
Honor for Chang Liu
Honor for Aurora Pribram-Jones
Department celebrates with Lee dinner
Jenn wins a Dreyfus
Shaul elected to National academy
Matt becomes Chancellor's Fellow
lauds
NSF GRFP awards
Graduating recruiting, 2015
Honor for Liz Jarvo
Honor for Chris Vanderwal
Honor for Ken Shea
Esser-Kahn becomes Cottrell scholar
Two Sloans for Chemistry
Honor for Bill Evans
Honor for Don Blake
Egg-stravaganza
Hemminger Festschrift published
New Graduate Student Success Program
Burke paper is 16th most cited science paper ever
Grad student Gianmarc Grazioli goes viral with "Chemist's Know"
Castl renewed
Honor for Bill Evans
Honor for Larry Overman
Honor for Shaul Mukamel
CHAMP 2014
The very influential Matt Law
Honor for Susan King
Honor for Megan Fieser
Nanocone Arrays Essay
Honor for Jenny Yang
NSF GRFP awards
NSF GRFP awads
NSF GRFP awards
Ford Foundation Fellowship Recipients
Pedagogical Fellow
Honor for Larry Overman
Teaching Award for Jennifer Prescher
Honor for Shaul Mukamel
Hat Trick for UCI Physical Chemists
Honor for Tom Poulos
Honor for Doug Tobias
AFOSR Young Investigators
Honor for Barbara Finlayson-Pitts
News for Rachel Martin
Honor for Sergey Nizkorodov
Humboldt for Snyder
Award for Liz Jarvo
Eminent Organic Chemists
Award for Aaron Esser-Kahn
Honor for Suzanne Blum
Honor for Vy Dong
Matt Law dazzles
Esser-Kahn a big hit down under
Suzanne Blum named JSPS fellow
New ACS Fellow
RSC interviews Vy Dong
Honor for Natasha Kozlyuk
Honor for Renee Link
In Memorium
Undergrad Accomplishments
Honor for Wilson Ho
OpenChem News
Honor for Benny Gerber
Honor for Shaul Mukamel
Cover for Don Blake
New Faculty Member
Fellowship Honor
Graduate Student Symposium
NSF fellows
Pedagogical Fellows
Congratulations to Eric Potma
Honor for Avinash Khanna
OpenChem Launch
New Faculty Member
Honor for Matt Law
Honor for Ken Shea
Honor for Raphael Ribeiro
Honor for Matt Dawson
Honor for Kieron Burke
Honor for Filipp Furche
Presentation of award
New AAAS Fellows
Honor for Wilson Ho
Honor for Chris Vanderwal
New Faculty Member Profiled
Honor for Ken Shea
Lectureship for Chris Vanderwal
OpenCourseWare Honor for James Nowick
Vertex Scholar Award
Honor for Chem Grad Students
New Job for Reg Penner
Two Honors for Shaul Mukamel
Honor for Don Blake
PNAS Tribute to F. Sherwood Rowland
ACS award for creative advances in Env. Sci. and Tech.
Honor for Salman Jabri
Honor for Sergey Nizkorodov
Graduate Student Finalist
Award for Scott Rychnovsky
Students Honored
Honor for Rob Corn
Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee
UCI Loses the Legendary F. Sherwood Rowland
AirUCI Research Profiled
Another Award
Don Blake Profiled
Honor for John Hemminger
Award for Steve Hanessian
Award for Aaron Esser-Kahn
Award News
Dedication to Teaching
Rowland Collection
Chem Safety Training
New Faculty Member
Overman Honored
Chemistry Alumnus Killed in Action
Honor for Scott Rychnovsky
Department of Chemistry wins 2011 Green Commute Award
Rowland Library Exhibit
Award for Steve Hanessian
Dr. Megan Sassin and Professor Annaliese Franz to receive Rising Star award
Congratulations to our outstanding graduate students!
Professor Wilson Ho is the recipient of the 2011 Medard W. Welch award
Professor Reg Penner named UCI Chancellor's Professor
Congratulations to 2011 Lauds and Laurels Alumni recipient David Mac Millan
Larry Overman receives UCI Medal
UCI Chemistry teachers Honored
Leah Cleary chosen to participate in 2011 Abbott Scholars Symposium
Congratulations to Aurora Pribram-Jones
Congratulations NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipients
Congratulations to grad Nicole Richards
Victor Mak receives ACS Research Fellowship.
Professor Chris Vanderwal named Chancellor's Fellow
Karl Bedke wins the Hal Moore Award for Achievement in Organic Chemistry.
Jeff Cannon receives Bristol-Myers Squibb Minority Fellowship Award
Jessica Arter selected to attend prestigious Lindau meeting of Nobel Laureates and young researchers
Fool's gold catches eye of solar energy researchers
Matthew Beaver first recipient of the Award for Outstanding Thesis Defense in Organic Chemistry
Can artificial antibodies fight real diseases?
The annual UCI-Pfizer Symposium on Organic Synthesis will be held at the Beckman Center.
Irwin (Ernie) Rose receives Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation

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