Rob Corn
Thu, Apr 5
Honor for Rob Corn
Rob Corn has been elected as a Fellow of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS).  
GSSPC
Wed, Mar 28
Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee
UC Irvine chosen as the 2013 GSSPC for National ACS Conference

Graduate Awards & Fellowships

2009

Eli Lilly Fellowship

Matt Beaver (Woerpel)
 

Eli Lilly Fellowship

Dave Martin (Vanderwal)
 

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Emily Bruns (Finlayson-Pitts)
 

Vertex Fellowship

Ben Kohn (Jarvo)


2008


Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Connor Martin (Overman)
 

Edward K.C. Lee Award

Matthew Brown (Hemminger)
 

Graduate Award for Departmental Service

Malin Backlund (Farmer)
 

Hal Moore Award

Juan Diaz (Weiss)
 

Joan Rowland Award

Christopher Popeney (Guan)
 

Michael Gebel Award

Jonathan Bass (Blum) Freddy Toledo (Ho)
 

Michael Zach Award

Sergiy Levin (Nowick)
 

Most Promising Future Faculty Member in Organic Chemistry Award

Matthew Beaver (Woerpel)
 

Outstanding Contributions to Education by a Chemistry Department TA - Honored by the School of Physical Sciences

Sergiy Levin (Nowick) Jordan Pio (Janda)
 

Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - 1st Year

Jason Deckman (Mandelshtam) Buck Taylor (Jarvo)
 

Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - Lower Division

Brian Slafer (Rychnovsky) Keith Donovan (Penner) Zhiyang Zeng (Shea)
 

Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - Upper Division

Sonja Peterson (Borovik) Hasan Celik (Shaka)
 

Smitrovich Award

Danielle Vellucci (Rychnovsky)


2007


ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship

Nicole White (Overman)
 

Edward K.C. Lee Award

Maggie Walser (Nizkorodov)
 

Hal Moore Award

John Huckins (Rychnovsky)
 

Joan Rowland Award

Jennie Thomas (Finlayson-Pitts)
 

Michael Gebel Award

Samar Moussa (Finlayson-Pitts)
 

Michael Zach Award

Jie Bai (Shea)
 

Most Promising Future Faculty Member in Organic Chemistry Award

Renee Link (Woerpel)
 

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Desiré Whitmore (Potma)
 

Outstanding Contributions to Education by a Chemistry Department TA - Honored by the School of Physical Sciences

Christopher McGee (Van Vranken) Amber Riley (Rychnovsky)
 

Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - 1st Year

Steve Canham (Blum) Matthew Carlson (Blake) Glenn Eldridge (Weiss)
 

Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - Continuing TA's

Michael Gesinski (Rychnovsky) Sara Lorenz (Evans)
 

Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - Lower Division

Malin Backlund (Farmer) Matthew Beaver (Woerpel) Romas Kudirka (Van Vranken)
 

Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA - Upper Division

Christopher Harmon (Finlayson-Pitts) Steve Mang (Nizkorodov)
 

UC President's Dissertation Year Fellowship

Juan Diaz (Weiss)


2006


ACS Medicinal Chemistry Fellowship

Omid Khakshoor (Nowick)
 

ARCS Foundation Fellowship

Jennie Thomas (Finlayson-Pitts)
 

Diabetes Technology Society Peterson Student Research Bronze Prize

Brian Novak (Blake)
 

Edward K.C. Lee Award

Omid Khakshoor (Nowick)
 

Hal Moore Award

Rishi Vaswani (Chamberlin)
 

Joan Rowland Award

Allison Olszewski (Weiss)
 

Michael Zach Award

Ryan Benz (Tobias)
 

Most Promising Future Faculty Member in Organic Chemistry Award

Amber Reilly (Rychnovsky)
 

Outstanding Contributions to Education by a Chemistry Department TA-Honored by the School of Physical Sciences

Walter Salamant (Woerpel)
Andrew Thomas (Woerpel)
 

Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA

1ST YEAR:
Jocelyn Wang (Overman)
Matt Gileto (Chamberlin)
Justin Walensky (Evans) CONTINUING TA'S:
Hiromitsu (Hiro) Urakami (Guan)
Janice Loy (Woerpel)
Siddhartha Shenoy (Woerpel) UPPER DIVISION:
Sergiy Levin (Nowick) LOWER DIVISION:
Viengkham (Vi) Malathong (Rychnovsky)
Christian Ventocilla (Woerpel)
Laura Bourque (Woerpel)
 

Smitrovich Award

Stacie Calad (Woerpel) Lori Jean Van Orden (Rychnovsky)


2005


ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Fellowship

Juan Diaz
 

Allergan Graduate Fellowship

Omid Khakshoor
 

Edward G. Weston Fellowship from the Electrochemical Society

Emek Blair
 

Edward K.C. Lee Award

George Nazin
 

Hal Moore Award

Deborah Smith
 

Joan Rowland Award

Stosh Kozimor (Evans)
 

Novartis Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Thomas La Cruz
 

Outstanding Contributions to Education by a Chemistry Department TA Honored by the School of Physical Sciences

Christopher Popeney (Guan), Robert Sulc (Shea)


2004


Edward K.C. Lee Award

Zachary Aron (Overman)
 

Hal Moore Award

Michael Chung
 

Joan Rowland Award

Filip Sulc (Farmer)
 

UCI Medal Fellowship

Omid Khakshoor


 

ACS Division of Medicinal Chemistry Award

David Colby (Chamberlin)
 

ACS Organic Fellowship

Jason T. Roland (Guan), Audris Huang (Overman)
 

AGEP Fellowship

Dora Guzman (Guan)
 

ARCS Fellowship, Achievement Awards for College Students

David Lee (Evans)
 

Allergan Graduate Fellowship

Mary Pavan (Overman)
 

Bristol-Meyers Squibb Graduate Fellowship

Emily Peterson (Overman)
 

Chancellors Fellowship

Daniel Shelton (Rychnovsky), Paul Tanis (Overman)
 

Comer Fellow, Climate Change

Barbara Barletta (Blake)
 

Department of Education GAANN Fellowship

Karen Callahan, Ana De La Ree, Kevin Donovan, John Karnes, Meghan Krage, James Loussaert, Stephen Mang (Nizkorodov), Rachelle Smalley (Finlayson-Pitts)
 

Eli Lilly Graduate Fellowship

Joshua Roth (Chamberlin)
 

Faculty Mentor Program Fellowship

Anthony Gomez (Nizkorodov)
 

GCEP/GREF Fellowship

Rachel Hoffman (Finlayson-Pitts)
 

Gates Millenium

Michael Chung (Nowick)
 

Graduate Opportunity Fellowship

Thomas Vasquez (Woerpel)
 

IGB Fellow

Ryan Benz (Tobias)
 

Johnson & Johnson Fellowship

Deborah Smith (Woerpel)
 

Lilly Fellowship

Zach Aron (Overman)
 

Most Promising Future Faculty Member Award

Aaron Kushner (Guan)
 

Mosty Promising Future Faculty Member in Organic Chemistry Award

Danielle Vellucci (Rychnovsky)
 

NASA Fellowship

John Newberg (Hemminger)
 

NIA (National Institute of Aging) Training Grant

Chris Gothard (Nowick) Julianna Asgian (Chamberlin
postdoc)
 

NIH Biomedical Informatics Training Grant

Phillip Tam (Weiss)
 

NIH Fellowship

Stacie Calad (Woerpel)
Claudia Lucero (Woerpel)
 

NIH Minority NRSA

Zulimar Nevarez (Woerpel), Ryan Lauchli (Shea), Antonio Romero (Woerpel)
 

NIH Synthesis and Structure

Aron Levin
 

NSF

Maggie Walser (Nizkorodov)
 

Novartis Fellowship

Tom LaCruz (Rychnovsky)
 

Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department Teaching Program by a TA

1ST YEAR:
Christian Ventocilla (Woerpel), Sara Kennedy (Evans) CONTINUING TA's: Jennie Thomas (Finalyson-Pitts)
Walter Salamant (Woerpel) UPPER DIVISION: Benjamin Murray (Penner), Szeman Ng (Farmer) Rishi Vaswani (Chamberlin)
 

Regents Dissertation Fellowship

Christopher Anderson (Overman), Zachery Aron (Overman), Brenda Burke (Overman), Trevor Charvat (Chamberlin), Guanghui Chen (Guan), Kevin Greenman (Van Vranken), Thu Zar Lwin (Tobias), Erik Menke (Penner), Benjamin Murray (Penner), Nina Riga (Martens), Xiaohong Shou (Chamberlin) Filip Sulc (Farmer) Scott Wolkenhauer (Rychnovsky)
Penny Workman (Evans)
 

Synthesis and Structure Training Grant

Gary Juskowiak (Van Vranken) Jamie Cohen (Chamberlin)
 

Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program

Xiang Pan (Nizkorodov)
 

UCI Bridge Program Award

Rene Bravo (Heyduk)
Melissa Prado
 

UCI Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center Fellow

Brian Novak (Blake)