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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! Nehal Idris selected as a 2022-2023 School of Physical Sciences DEI Graduate Leaders Fellowship recipient 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" Meet the UCI School of Physical Sciences’ Graduate Diversity Fellows 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....