Chemistry faculty did well in the recent UCR Collaborative Seed Grant Program run by the Research and Economic development program. The purpose of the seed grants is to provide funds to enable teams of UCR faculty to collaborate and publish before grant submission, making UCR more competitive for multi-investigator grants from external agencies. Of the...
A postcard-size sign hangs from the ceiling of the second floor of Pierce Hall on the University of California, Riverside campus. It says: “GLASS SHOP.” The shop is the domain of Stan Sheldon, the university’s scientific glass blower. Scientific is the key word. Sheldon makes custom glass pieces for chemists, engineers and other researchers on...
Stacie Eldridge is an Associate Faculty of Chemistry and serves as the current Advisor of the RCC Gender and Sexualities Awareness Club. Stacie attended the University of California, Riverside from 2004-09 and graduated with her Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry under the advisement of Dr. Cynthia Larive. In 2006 she was the recipient of travel awards...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The University of California, Riverside was recognized this week as one of the top 150 universities in the world with the release of the annual Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities. Overall, UCR was placed in the 101–150 range among the 500 ranked schools. The survey, which uses transparent...
Dean of Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas, continues a lifelong fascination with chemistry that has influenced both his professional and personal pursuits since his days as a University of California, Riverside student in the late 1960s. After earning a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at UCR in 1970, Wolinsky completed a doctorate...
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Dr. Huiwang Ai has been recently selected as a Hellman Fellow at UCR Riverside for 2013-14. Ai will receive a $30,000 grant to support his research project, "Spatiotemporal control of metal ion signaling with engineered proteins", which will explore ways to enable optogenetic regulation of cell signaling. The Hellman Fellows program...
Thanks to generous donations by UCR Chemistry alumni John Precht and Eddie Seo, three of our undergraduate students are working full-time in the laboratory this summer. The Kuwana-Sawyer Award honors Ted Kuwana and Donald T. Sawyer, well-known analytical chemists and former UCR professors, while providing support for undergraduate students doing research in analytical chemistry. This...
UCR Chemistry Major Class of 1964 retired in Aug. 2012 after 31 years’ service at the US Army Natick Soldier Center in Natick, Mass. Dr. Dunne’s long standing role as the Senior Advisor for Nutritional Biochemistry & Advanced Processing in the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Directorate (CFD) brought wide recognition to himself and the...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Yinsheng Wang, a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, has received the Biemann Medal, awarded by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) to an individual early in his or her career in recognition of significant achievement in basic or applied mass spectrometry. Wang received the medal and gave...
Santanu Sarkar, a UCR chemistry graduate student in the group of Prof. Robert Haddon, has been named as one of the finalists for the highly prestigious international Reaxys PhD Prize for 2013. He has been invited to attend and present his work at the Reaxys PhD Prize Symposium and Poster Session which will be held...
Qiao Zhang, a PhD student recently graduated from Prof. Yadong Yin's group, has been selected by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) to receive one of the five 2013 IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists. According to IUPAC, the prizes are given for the most outstanding Ph.D. theses in the general area of...
Pauline Olsen, a third-year undergraduate biochemistry-chemistry major, has been recognized as one of the 2013 UCR Chancellor's Research Fellows. Pauline's research, conducted under the guidance of Dr. Jack Eichler in the department of chemistry, generally aims to investigate the potential anticancer properties of gold(III) coordination complexes. Her previous research in the lab focused on investigating...
Brooke Wilson graduated from UCR in 2011 with a B.S. degree in Chemistry and moved to Houston, Texas soon thereafter. Her education and overall experiences obtained at UCR within the classroom, laboratory, and also during her tenure as an undergraduate researcher with Professor Paul Ziemann, provided her with ample knowledge to enter the competitive job...
Assistant Professor Richard Hooley has been awarded the 2013 Chancellor's Award for Fostering Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement. This award is intended to recognize his contributions to mentoring undergraduate research students in a laboratory setting. Professor Hooley's research interests lie in the synthesis of nanoscale molecular receptors, the study of their properties and...
Andrew Carlson is UCR's recipient of the American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry's Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry for 2013. The award is intended to recognize senior students who display a significant aptitude for organic chemistry and to encourage further interest in the field. Andrew is completing his research on novel luciferins in the...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. The atom-sized world of carbon nanotubes holds great promise for a future demanding smaller and faster electronic components. Nanotubes are stronger than steel and smaller than any element of silicon-based electronics—the ubiquitous component of today’s electrical devices—and have better conductivity, which means they can potentially process information faster while using less energy. The...
Professor and Chemistry Department chair Cynthia K. Larive has been appointed as an editor of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. Dr. Larive joins Prof. Sylvia Daunert, University of Miami, and Dr. Stephen Wise, NIST, as the North American editors of the journal. The mission of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry is the rapid publication of excellent and...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Anticancer drugs save lives and/or improve the quality of life for many cancer patients. Many anti-cancer drugs work by killing tumor cells after inducing damage to DNA. The public has an opportunity to learn about the mechanisms of action of some commonly used anticancer drugs and how laboratory research may lead to...
Grace received a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from UCR in 2006 under the mentorship of Prof. Yinsheng Wang. Her thesis was on nucleosomal protein study using mass spectrometry and biochemical techniques. Dr. Grace Jiang joined Amgen in 2006 as a Scientist in Process and Product Development. Amgen is a leading biotechnology company dedicated to deliver...
Research by UC Riverside scientists have found that the optical transparency of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) films coated with a layer of an ionic liquid (IL) can be dramatically increased or decreased depending on the sign of the applied electrical potential. The change of transparency can be uniform across the SWNT thin film and utilized...