Three graduate students, four undergraduate student researchers, and an alumna receive highly competitive 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards.    In addition, five graduate students and one undergraduate student researcher received 2018 NSF Honorable Mentions. Graduate students Joseph Jaye (Sletten group), Joseph Ong (Torres group), Stasik Popov (Nelson group), and undergraduate researchers Jesus Lopez Baltazar […]

On St Patrick’s Day this year, the Molecular Biology Institute (MBI) returned to Ventura for its Annual Retreat. The retreat was very well attended, with 96 students and 23 faculty present.  Alumna Dr. Audree Fowler (B.S. ’56, Ph.D. ’63 Biochemistry) presented the highly-competitive 2018 Audree Fowler Fellowships in Protein Science to Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate students Michael Hughes […]

On March 16, 2018, students from Professor Craig Merlic’s Honors Seminar for Chemistry 89 held a poster session focused on new medicines. At the event held in the Young Hall collaboratory, 50 students from the Honors Seminar for Chemistry and Biochemistry class presented 25 posters on drugs recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration […]

PhD student Kent Kirlikovali (Spokoyny group) has been selected for a 2018 IPMI Student Award. The award recognizes excellence and achievement in the field of precious metals.  Kirlikovali will receive the award and present his research at the IPMI Annual International Conference in June in San Antonio, Texas. Working in the laboratory of chemistry Professor Alexander […]

Postdoctoral associate Julia Stauber (Spokoyny group) has been named as a recipient of the 2018 DIC Young Investigator Award. Stauber was recognized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Inorganic Chemistry (DIC) for her work with Professor Kit Cummins at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during her Ph.D. studies. She will participate in […]

Professor Anne Andrews was one of four scientists featured prominently at the ACS national meeting in New Orleans March 18-22, 2018. Andrews’ Mindshift profile and video interview can be accessed on the ACS Axial website. The sign (below) was prominently displayed at the ACS meeting conference hall so that people could see Andrew’s story and […]

Professor Jeffrey Zink has been selected to receive the 2017 SCALACS Tolman Medal.             The medal is awarded each year by the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society (SCALACS) in recognition of the medalist’s outstanding contributions to chemistry.  Zink will be presented with the medal at the Richard C. […]

Professor Richard Kaner and postdoc Maher El-Kady’s articles on graphene supercapacitors are among the top most cited research articles during the past five years.  In order to put this into perspective, a recent article in Nature says “Citations, in which one paper refers to earlier works, are the standard means by which authors acknowledge the […]