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Congratulations to our retirees!
Congratulations to the 2026 E.K.C. Lee Event award winners!
Professor Maxx Arguilla receives $200K grant from the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities to advance research into nanoscale crystalline materials
Chemistry Professor Matthew Griffin receives $50,000 early-career award to study new targets for the next generation of antimicrobial agents
Brooke Antonia Dorsey, Department of Chemistry PhD student, receives prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award
Jennifer Prescher wins the Research Corporation for Science Advancement's Impact Award!
Seth Cohen to become new dean of UC Irvine's School of Physical Sciences
Professor Ann Marie Carlton named AAAS Fellow!
Professor Elizabeth Jarvo named AAAS Fellow!
Remembering Rob Schurko
Congratulations to Professor Seu Sim who has been named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow!
Warren Hehre, a former member of the Department of Chemistry, has passed away.
Maxx Arguilla Awarded Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) from Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Graduate student Audrey Miles travels to D.C. with the nuclear engineering student delegation.
Celia Faiola awarded the prestigious Kenneth T. Whitby Award!
Professor Matthew Griffin receives NIH New Innovator Award
Maxx Arguilla Wins 2026 ACS National Fresenius Award
Robert “Bob” Doedens, UC Irvine Professor of Chemistry, dies age 87
Kieron Burke Appointed Interim Dean of the School of Physical Sciences
School of Physical Sciences welcomes four new faculty members
Liz Jarvo and Sergey Nizkorodov were awarded the title of Chancellor’s Professor!
Barbara Finlayson-Pitts was named the Academic Senate Better World Awardee
Bill Evans received the Daniel G. Aldrich, Jr. Distinguished University Service Award
Liz Jarvo earned the Distinguished Faculty Award for Mentorship
Dr. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts wins 2025 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award
Sergey Nizkorodov Receives Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Fostering of Undergraduate Research
Liran Zhu selected for the 2025 USNCO Study Camp!
Professor Kenneth J. Shea to receive the Tolman Medal
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
Knowledge Acquisition Center (KnAC) provides help for undergrads
Congratulations to Awardees Recognized at Annual Lee Dinner
Grad student Gianmarc Grazioli goes viral with "Chemist's Know"
Next Event
PhD defense
Radical insights into aqueous photochemical aging of secondary organic aerosols and atmospheric surrogate mixtures
Lena Gerritz
Nizkorodov/Shiraiwa groups
06-16-26 2:00 pm
NS2 2201
MRSEC Seminar
Supramolecular Polymerization for a Sustainable Future
Takuzo Aida
University of Tokyo; RIKEN
06-18-26 3:00 pm
ISEB 1010 (Auditorium)
PhD defense
Aleksander Bartnik PhD Defense
Aleksander Bartnik
Sim group
07-10-26 2:00 pm
PhD defense
Anna Kapp PhD Defense
Anna Kapp
Smith group
07-13-26 10:30 am
RH 390
Industrial Recruiting
Industrial Recruiting - AbbVie
07-24-26 9:00 am
PhD defense
Jeremy Wakeen PhD Defense
Jeremy Wakeen
Smith group
08-04-26 9:00 am
Industrial Recruiting
Industrial Recruiting - Amgen
08-14-26 9:00 am
Industrial Recruiting
Industrial Recruiting - Vertex Pharmaceuticals
08-27-26 9:00 am
PhD defense
Partho Paul PhD Defense
Partho Paul
Yang group
09-10-26 3:00 pm
Research Highlights
Sophia Xu from the Dong Lab is first author of JACS publication "Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Hydroacylation: Racemization by Soft Enolization"
Connecting the Dots: Law Group shows how quantum dots fuse to form 3D single-crystalline superlattices.
Yang group's studies of stable molecular catalyst on cover of JACS
