News
11/13/2019
Tony Davis to receive the 2019 Chancellor's Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Congratulations to Tony Davis for being selected to receive the 2019 Chancellor's Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award. He was picked due to his stellar mentoring, service and research in this department.
11/13/2019
ACS Student Chapter wins Green Chemistry Award for 2018-19 academic year
Congratulations to the Student Chapter for their hard work and adoption of the green chemistry principles and practices at UCSD.
11/06/2019
Francesco Paesani appointed as Kurt Shuler Faculty Scholar
Professor Paesani has been appointed as Kurt Shuler Faculty Scholar for his cutting-edge research at the intersection of chemistry, physics, and data science aimed at developing predictive computer simulations of complex molecular processes of relevance to materials science, environmental chemistry and biochemistry.
11/01/2019
Professor Tadeusz Molinski 2020 National ACS Award Recipient
Ernest Guenther Award in the Chemistry of Natural Products
11/01/2019
Distinguished Professor Kimberly Prather 2020 National ACS Award Recipient
Frank H. Field & Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry
10/16/2019
Prof. Charles Perrin’s 75th Publication in JACS, flagship journal of the American Chemical Society
Isotopic-Perturbation NMR Study of Hydrogen-Bond Symmetry in Solution: Temperature Dependence and Comparison of OHO and ODO Hydrogen Bonds Is a hydrogen bond symmetric, with the hydrogen centered between two donor atoms, or is it asymmetric, with the hydrogen closer to one but jumping to the other?
10/11/2019
Professor Emeritus Russell F. Doolittle Dies, Age 88
Broadly known for his work on comparative protein sequence and structure
10/10/2019
Professors Emeritus Marjorie Caserio and Joseph Watson receive Revelle Medals
The Revelle Medal recognizes current and former faculty members for sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to UC San Diego.
08/06/2019
Toor laboratory publishes paper in Cell. They solved a structure of a group II intron reverse splicing into DNA> Conformational dynamics provides strong evidence for an evolutionary connection to the spliceosome.
07/26/2019
Congratulations to Dr. Edward Dennis on receiving the Vallee Award!
The Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science was established by the Bert and N. Kuggie Vallee Foundation in 2012 to recognize international achievements in the sciences basic to medicine. It is awarded to an established scientist for outstanding accomplishments in basic biomedical research. Nominations must originate from ASBMB members, however the nominee need not be an ASBMB member.
07/11/2019
Congratulations to Robina Shaheen on being selected to serve on the Mars 2020 planning committee!
Project scientist, Robina Shaheen, of Thiemens laboratory, was selected to serve on the Mars 2020 planning committee (joint NASA-ESA mission) on sample acquisition from Mars. She worked on the atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemistry sections along with other team members.
07/11/2019
22nd Annual San Diego MedChem Symposium: Friday, July 19, 2019
For more information: http://chemistry.ucsd.edu/go/medchem
07/01/2019
Congratulations to Terra Sztain-Pedone on receiving the 2018-19 Bruno Zimm Award!
The Bruno Zimm Graduate Award is named for UC San Diego Professor of Chemistry Bruno Zimm, a pioneer in the study of the biophysical properties of nucleic acids and proteins. The award is given to a full-time Ph.D. graduate student whose research is in the area of physical chemistry, planetary chemistry, or cosmo-chemistry, and whose research is exceptionally meritorious and particularly deserving of recognition. The award is made possible through a gift from Larry S. Millstein, Ph.D. (Chemistry, ’87), and his wife Robin Taylor. Professor Zimm was an adviser to and chaired Dr. Millstein’s doctoral committee.
05/24/2019
Congratulations to Erik Romero on receiving the 2019 Chancellor's Dissertation Medal!
The Graduate Student Association (GSA), in coordination with the Graduate Division and the Office of Research Affairs, is seeking outstanding graduate students who have recently completed their thesis work at UC San Diego. Each department is eligible to nominate one student who has completed an outstanding dissertation in the past year. A committee of faculty assembled by the dean of each division will select a winner from each division at UC San Diego. Award winners will have the opportunity to be honored at commencement, when they receive their medals at the time of being hooded. Winners will also be recognized as a recipient of the medal on the Graduate Division webpage.
05/22/2019
Congratulations to the 2019 Recipient of the NSF-GRFP!
We proudly announce that the National Science Foundation has selected Ryjul Stokes from the Cohen Lab in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry as the recipient of the 2019 Graduate Research Fellowship!
05/06/2019
Professor Rommie Amaro awarded new Endowed Chair Position
Professor Rommie Amaro awarded new Endowed Chair: the Distinguished Professorship in Theoretical and computational Chemistry. Professor Amaro’s computational and theoretical research work has significantly advanced our understanding of ligand protein interactions including how drugs bind at the catalytic and various allosteric sites of enzymes. Professor Amaro is PI on several grants and leads two large and important NIH funded centers at UC San Diego, namely the National Biomedical Computational Resource and the Drug Design Data Resource. As such, she has a very visible leadership role locally, nationally, and globally in the computational and theoretical fields. Prof. Amaro contributes significantly to the undergraduate teaching program in our department and is an enthusiastic and active participant in Departmental affairs serving as Vice-Chair of the Department and as the elected Chair of the Section on Biochemistry and Biophysics.
04/12/2019
Congratulations to Professor Neal Devaraj on receiving the 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship!
Since its establishment in 1925, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has granted more than $360 million in Fellowships to over 18,000 individuals, among whom are scores of Nobel laureates, Fields Medalists, poets laureate, members oft eh various national academies, and winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Turing Award, National Book Award, and other significant, internationally recognized honors. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Foundation's ninety-fifth competition.
04/12/2019
Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Vicki Grassian on being awarded the Nichols Medal!
Distinguished Professor Vicki Grassian has been awarded the Nichols Medal by the New York Section of the American Chemical Society. The Nichols Medal is awarded annually for "significant and original contributions in any field of chemistry." The award was established in 1902 by the New York Section of the American Chemical Society through a gift from chemist and businessman William H. Nichols. It was the first award authorized by the American Chemical Society.
04/03/2019
Congratulations to the Paesani Laboratory on their publication in Nature Chemistry!
Ion-mediated hydrogen-bond rearrangement through tunneling in the iodide-dehydrate complex
04/02/2019
Congratulations to Chem/Biochem graduate student finalists in 2019 Grad SLAM!
Grad SLAM is a competitive public speaking event for graduate students to showcase the impact of their research in three-minutes or less. Ten Finalists will compete in the Final Round and one Campus Champion will be selected to advance to the UC system-wide competition in May.
03/26/2019
Congratulations to Rommie Amaro for receiving the 2019-2020 Lattimer Research Fellowship!
The George W. and Carol A. Lattimer Faculty Research Fellowship is designed as a generative tool, effectively seeding innovation, entrepreneurial spirit and cross-disciplinary initiatives. The award recognizes that intellectual integration essentially forged UC San Diego's reputation, with Faculty from across campus having built an extraordinary network of interdisciplinary research and training. This award provides for the continuation of this momentum for generating new ideas and research areas.
03/22/2019
Congratulations to the Brydges Lab on their publication in the Journal of Chemical Education!
Catalyze! Lowering the Activation Barriers to Undergraduate Students' Success in Chemistry: A Board Game for Teaching Assistants.
03/19/2019
Congratulations to the Figueroa Lab on their publication in Science!
A Terminal Boron Monofluoride (BF) Metal Complex. As recently published in Science, the Figueroa group has isolated the first compound featuring a terminally coordinated BF ligand, thereby ushering in a new era for the coordination chemistry of simple diatomic molecules.
03/19/2019
Congratulations to Galperin Laboratory on their publication in Nano Letters!
Many-Body State Description of Single-Molecule Electroluminescence Driven by a Scanning Tunneling Microscope.
03/19/2019
Catalyze! A Board Game for Teaching Assistants
Professor Stacey Brydges and Dr. Holly Dembinski describe the design, implementation and assessment of an educational exercise for graduate teaching assistants.
03/18/2019
Congratulations to Professor Wei Xiong on Receiving the 2019 ACS JPC/PHYS Lectureship Award
Professor Xiong was selected to be one of the three 2019 JPC/PHYS Lectureship awardee and he will deliver his lecture at the Fall ACS National Meeting in San Diego, CA.
02/22/2019
Congratulations to Professor Cliff Kubiak on being awarded the 2018 ACS Tolman Medal
The Tolman Medal has been awarded every year since 1960 by the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society. The medal will be presented at a Spring meeting of the Section.
02/15/2019
Distinguished Professor Kim Prather elected to National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering has elected a number of new members, including UCSD Distinguished Professor Kim Prather. This is among one of the highest professional distinctions that can be accorded to an Engineer. Membership honors those people who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature," and to "the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education." Newly elected members will be inducted during a ceremony at the NAE's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on October 6, 2019.
02/15/2019
Congratulations to Professor Vicki Grassian, IUPAC 2019 Distinguished Women in Chemistry Awardee
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) recently announced the awardees of the 2019 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering and UCSD Professor Vicki Grassian was one of those honored. The program was created to promote and acknowledge the work of women chemists/chemical engineers worldwide and each awardee elected this year was chosen based on their excellence in basic or applied research, distinguished accomplishments in teaching or education, or demonstrated leadership or managerial excellence in the chemical sciences. A ceremony to honor recipients of this award will be held during the IUPAC World Chemistry Congress in Paris, France.
02/11/2019
Distinguished Professor Ed Dennis Appointed Inaugural Chancellor Distinguished Professorship
Distinguished Professor Ed Dennis, has just been informed by Dean Boggs that he has been appointed as the inaugural Chancellor Distinguished Professorship (I) by Chancellor Khosla. As we all know, Ed has had a long and distinguished career at UC San Diego and is a valued member of the UC San Diego academic community. Congratulation to Distinguished Professor Dennis for this well-deserved distinction!
02/08/2019
Distinguished Professor Susan Taylor Appointed Innaugural Chancellor Distinguished Professorship
Distinguished Professor Susan Taylor has just been informed by Dean Boggs that she has been appointed as the inaugural Chancellor Distinguished Professorship (II) by Chancellor Khosla. As Chancellor Khosla notes in his letter “this distinguished appointment is a direct reflection of the high regard in which you are held by the UC San Diego academic community.” Congratulations to Distinguished Professor Taylor for all of her scientific accomplishments and this well-deserved recognition!