Larry Overman receives UCI Medal

Congratulations to Larry Overman, one of this year's UCI Medal Recipients! The Medal is the highest honor the university bestows. For more information, visit www.ucifuture.com/medal.

UCI Chemistry teachers Honored

Congratulations to the excellent teachers in the Chemistry Department! Of special note, Dr. Ben Hafensteiner has been named UCI Lecturer of the Year. Additionally, Professor Andy Borovik has been chosen as The School of Physical Sciences Honoree for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Their efforts are being recognized at this year's Celebration of Teaching on May 26.

Leah Cleary chosen to participate in 2011 Abbott Scholars Symposium

Leah Cleary of the Shea group has been chosen to participate in the 2011 Abbott Scholars Symposium on August 30, 2011. This will be an opportunity for her to present her work to other students from around the country, and to scientists from Abbot Laboratories. Congratulations Leah!

Congratulations to Aurora Pribram-Jones

Congratulations to Aurora Pribram-Jones, a graduate student in the Burke research group! She has been selected to receive a prestigious Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, managed by the Krell Institute.

Congratulations NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipients

Congratulations to the following students who have been awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships: Gregory Hartt, Samuel Tartakoff, Kathleen Richert, Joseph Carlson, Amanda Weber, Amanda MacMillan and Aurora Pribram-Jones. Additionally, the following students are commended for receiving an Honorable Mention in the same program: Megan Fieser, Sarah Cook, Nicholas Sizemore, Aaron Johnson and Gavin Bascom. Thank you to all of the faculty who encouraged their students to apply and to Lori Greene in the Research Development Office for her help.

Congratulations to grad Nicole Richards

Congratulations to grad Nicole Richards of the Finlayson-Pitts group, whose poster "Nitrate Ion Photolysis in Thin Water Films in the Presence of Bromide Ions" won an award at the ACS meeting in Anaheim.

Victor Mak receives ACS Research Fellowship.

Victor Mak, an undergraduate in Professor Ken Shea's lab, received an ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

Professor Chris Vanderwal named Chancellor's Fellow

Professor Chris Vanderwal has been named a Chancellor's Fellow. Congratulations!

Karl Bedke wins the Hal Moore Award for Achievement in Organic Chemistry.

Jeff Cannon receives Bristol-Myers Squibb Minority Fellowship Award

Congratulations to graduate student Jeff Cannon of the Overman lab, who is this year's recipient of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Minority Fellowship Award.

UCI Department of Chemistry

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