Scientists at UC Riverside and UC Irvine have received funding of $5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, to team up with Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in building a diverse educational pipeline in the field of microelectronics — a priority for industry and government. Of this amount, nearly $4...
MacREU Student Meagan Hill, who works under Dr. Ludwig Bartles, placed Second Place at the 2022 Great Minds in STEM Luminaries! Not only that, she also won the 2022 Elmer Carvey Scholarship 2022 Elmer Carvey Scholorship of the SoCal AVS.
Graduate student Anh Hong has won the inaugural Thomas H. Morton Memorial Award in recognition of her outstanding research accomplishments and her broad interests in science and the world. Anh came to UCR in 2017 and has been completing her dissertation under the guidance of Professor Pingyun Feng. Anh’s research focuses on the development of...
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to recognize an outstanding graduate student, Chaolumen Wu, with the 2022 Robert C. Haddon Memorial Endowed Graduate Award and $1,000. Chaolumen’s research, under the guidance of Professor Yadong Yin, focuses on the assembly of colloidal nanoparticles into functional superstructures. He has developed strategies for assembling nanoparticles into hollow superstructures...
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to announce that outstanding graduate student Ravleen Kaur has received the 2022 Donald T. Sawyer Award in Analytical Chemistry. Her research in James Davies’ lab focuses on understanding how aerosol particles change over time, with applications ranging from atmospheric chemistry to the transmission of SARS-CoV-2. She has been developing...
Fifth-year graduate student Jacob Holmes has won the 2022 Chemistry Department Alumni Award. This $1,000 award recognizes outstanding Chemistry graduate students based on their research creativity, publication record, and other aspects of professional development. Jacob came to UCR in 2017 after completing his B.S. degree at Cal State University San Bernardino. He has been performing...
Graduate students Yen-Yu Yang and Alexander Malinick are being recognized with 2022 Advancing Faculty Diversity Fellowships for their combination of research excellence and commitment to supporting diversity. Both students will receive one quarter of graduate student researcher (GSR) support from the Chemistry department, helping them toward their goals of becoming future faculty members. Yen-Yu came...
The Department of Chemistry is pleased to recognize an outstanding graduate student, Courtney Ngai, with the 2022 Women in Science Award and $1,000. Courtney is a synthetic chemist developing self-assembled, catalytically active metal-organic cage complexes. In particular, she is developing strategies to include functional groups into cages that allow them to perform biomimetic catalysis without...
Graduate Student Nhien Nguyen under Dr. Timothy Su has been selected by ACS to attend the Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy! The ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy is a week-long once-in-a-lifetime experience! Each year about 60 students from the Americas are selected from the applicants to gather in...
Graduate Student Mario Imex Aguirre Cardenas in PI Su Lab has been selected for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! The NSF GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions. The five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support...
The American Chemical Society honors 33 local section and international chapter volunteers with its 2022 Outreach Volunteer of the Year Awards. The program, established by the Committee on Community Activities, recognizes extraordinary outreach volunteers.
The Langmuir Prize Lectureship is awarded by the American Chemical Society and is meant to recognize and encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research in chemistry. Please join me in congratulate Dr. Yadong Yin for being awarded the Langmuir Lectureship!
Researchers in California focused on studying a protein called tau and how it’s linked to brain buildup, a key indicator doctors look for when diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists in California tried to study Alzheimer’s disease from a different perspective and the results may have led them to the cause of the disease. Researchers at the...
Please join me in congratulating Dr. Pingyun Feng and Dr. Yadong Yin for being selected by Claritive as Highly Cited Researchers! UC Riverside - Inside UCR Clarivate, previously part of Thomson Reuters, produces this list for their Institute for Scientific Information, which promotes “integrity in research while improving the retrieval, interpretation, and utility of scientific...
Pfizer - La Jolla awards an AIR Diversity Research Fellowship to José Aleman, a senior undergraduate student. Originally from Peru, José transferred to UCR from Fullerton College and has been a peer facilitator for sophomore organic chemistry courses. In the summer of 2021, he acquired research experience at NC State University on high-throughput sequencing of...
Joseph Schwan and Pablo Andres Unzueta have received funding from the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research, or SCGSR, program to conduct their research at Department of Energy, or DOE, labs.
The Sawyer Award recognizes an Analytical Chemistry graduate student in their 3rd or 4th year of study with a $1500 award. Awardees are selected based on excellence in research. The award honors Donald T. Sawyer, a well-known analytical chemist and long-time UCR faculty member.
Anh Hong , a fourth-year PhD student in Prof. Pingyun Feng’s group, has proved herself to be both prolific and versatile, co-authoring nine publications from her UCR research on topics including crystalline porous materials for gas storage and separations, heteroatom-doped nanomaterials for electrocatalytic reactions, and sulfonated materials for fast ionic conduction in battery or fuel...
The Robert C. Haddon Memorial Endowed Graduate Award was established by the Haddon family in memory of our esteemed former colleague Professor Haddon to encourage excellence in research in materials chemistry. Yanxiang Wang , a fifth-year PhD student in Prof. Pingyun Feng’s group, was selected to receive the Haddon award for his creative and outstanding...
