UC Irvine Department of Chemistry

Last but certainly not least we'd like to feature Dr. Chelsea Anorma. Dr. Anorma is actually a double Anteater. She got her BS degree from UCI in 2014 and is now completing her post-doctoral research with Professor Martin. Dr. Anorma is becoming a Professor at Pomona College!

Congratulations to Elliott Einstein who will be graduating this year with his BS in Chemistry and will be applying to medical school next year!

Congratulation to Kimberly Zhang who will be graduating with her BS this year. Kimberly will be starting her PhD in chemistry at MIT this Fall. She wants to become a professor in the future!

Congratulations to Ana Barrionuevo who is graduating from our department with a BS in Chemistry. After graduation Ana will be applying to medical school. Congrats Ana!

Our second graduate that is being featured is TJ Cross. He has worked in the Martin Group and will be pursuing his PhD at UCLA in the Fall. Congratulations TJ!

Abstracts submissions are now open for the 2021 University of California Chemistry Symposium @uc_chemsym, and are due March 1st. This year the registration for the symposium is completely free. Check out the flyer for more information. @uciphysicalsciences @ucirvinespps @ucirvine @uofcalifornia

Read the statement of our department chair, Dr. Doug Tobias, regarding the recent horrific events in Washington, D. C.; stay safe friends, we will get through this together.

The @ucisocsci is hosting a pop-up panel today at noon regarding the recent unlawful siege of the Capitol in Washington D.C., please stay safe everyone.

We’re starting off this new quarter with an Organic Seminar this Wednesday, January 6th, at 4pm. Join us for professor Keary Engle from The Scripps Research Institute. He will talk about Universal Alkene Functionalization as an Aspirational Driver. Check your email for Zoom room info.

Happy Holidays from us to you!

Join us tomorrow, Thursday, October 22nd, at 3:30 pm for our Inorganic Seminar series. This week we will hear from Dr. Kaustuv Mittra, a post-doc in the Green Lab who will discuss the "Factors that promote C-H bond activation in Cytochrome P450s".

Join us tomorrow at 4pm for our Organic Seminar series. This week we are hosting a former post-doc in the Dong and a current Associate Principal Scientist @merck - Dr. Aaron Whitaker. We will hear about the "Catalysis enabled enantioselective syntheses of Islatravir".

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! We are concluding this series with an amazing PhD student in our department - Jennifer Campos Ayala. #hispanicheritagemonth

Join us today at 3:30 pm for the Inorganic Seminar, presented by Suman Barman, PhD, a post-doctoral researcher in the Borovik lab. Check your email for the Zoom room information.

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, October 14th, starting at 9 am for a @bristolmyerssquibb Symposium at UCI. The symposium will feature professor Vy M. Dong and a UCI Chemistry alumna Dr. Sarah Steinhardt. Check your emails for the information on the virtual meeting room.

The UCI Humanities Center in collaboration with Dr. Steven Allison is organizing a series of workshops on communicating your research to public audiences, a great opportunity for graduate students. See info for signing up in the flyer.

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day from the UCI Chemistry Department!

The deadline to register to vote in California is October 19th which is just one week away. Register to vote and VOTE by November 3rd. #election2020

Join us tomorrow at 12pm over Zoom for our first Organic Graduate Student and Post-Doctoral Colloquium of the year. We will hear from Alex Jiu in the Vy Dong group and Aoon Rizvi from the Joe Patterson group. Check your email for the Zoom link info!

We are starting a new feature: Throwback Thursdays (#tbt). Have a look at the first paper we are presenting. A Nature paper from Sherry Rowland and Mario Molina from 1974.

Dr. Mario Molina was a huge part of our department, and an incredible contributor to the science on negative effects of CFCs on ozone. He was the first Mexican-born scientist to receive a Nobel Prize. We are deeply saddened by the news of his passing.

Join us tomorrow at 4pm for the Inaugural Organic Seminar with Joe DeSimone on Digital Transformation in Manufacturing. Check your emails for the Zoom room information.

Chang Liu, an associate professor of biomedical engineering with an appointment in our department received an $8.4 million grant for developing new antibody generation methods. Research that is crucial now and even more so in the future. Congratulations! https://news.uci.edu//uci-researcher-receives-nih-transfo/