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Faculty Nobel Prize Winners:
Walter Kohn and Alan Heeger

UCSB Alumnus Awarded the 2007 Alan T. Waterman Award.

UCSB Alumnus Awarded the 2007 ExxonMobil Fellowship.

Frank Brown wins a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

UCSB Alumnus Awarded Major International Prize.

UCSB alumni acknowledged as spearheading 4th most important scientific development in China for 2006.

UCSB Chemistry Alumnus elected to National Academy of Engineering.

Songi Han wins a 2007 NSF Career Award.

UCSB Chem/Biochem Ph.D. graduate named Research Leader of the Year by Scientific American.

Alec Wodtke elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Gui Bazan awarded Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award for 2007

Researchers Develop Portable Cocaine Sensor

Bernie Kirtman wins ICCMSE 2005 Prize for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

Quyen Nguyen awarded 2006 NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award

Martin Moskovits elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

PIRE-ECCI established at UCSB to create partnership with China

Prof. John C. Tully,Arthur T. Kemp Professor Yale University New Haven, CT gives
2006 Palke Lecture "Chemical Dynamics at Metal Surfaces"

Graduate recruitment weekend set for March 3-4, 2006

Nobel Laureates Walter Kohn and Alan Heeger present a new documentary on solar electricity

Bernie Kirtman wins ICCMSE 2005 Prize for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry

Frank Brown wins Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Galen Stucky elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

John Graham wins Pfizer Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Jarrod Davidson Memorial Scholarship established

Quyen Nguyen wins Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award

Frank Brown named Alfred P. Sloan Fellow

T.C. Bruice receives NAS Award in Chemical Sciences

Galen Stucky ranked among most highly cited researchers in Materials Science

Guillermo Bazan named one of ten Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Winners for 2005

Craig Hawker joins the Faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, wins 2005 ACS award in Applied Polymer Chemistry

Song-I Han wins Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award.

New Faculty Announcement:
Craig Hawker
Frederick Dahlquist
Song-I Han
Quyen Nguyen

Professor T.C. Bruice gives 2004 BR Baker Memorial Lecture

Prof. Dan Little named "Outstanding Faculty Member" by Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society

Prof. Mike Bowers wins ASMS Mass Spectrometry Award

Asst. Prof. Frank Brown wins 2004 NSF Career Award

Asst. Professor Song-I Han joins the Faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Asst. Professor Quyen Nguyen joins the Faculty of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

UCSB Grad Angela Belcher awarded the MacArthur Foundation’s prestigious “genius grant

Prof. Tony Cheetham wins Somiya Award

Asst. Prof. Joan Shea wins Sloan Fellowship

Department ranked 7th in the nation by ScienceWatch

Army promises $50 million for new
UCSB biotech center

His Excellency Ishaq Shahryar (1961 BS, 1969 MA) gave a seminar regarding his company's scientific endeavors and his work as Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US.

Faculty/Staff beats grads in End of Year BBQ and Softball Game!

Ford Group Alumni ('75) Dr. John Petersen is elected University of Tennessee's new president.

Prof. Bruce Lipshutz and graduate student Brian Frieman's method for removing phosphine ligands featured in April 2004 C&E News

Prof. Bruce Lipshutz's research on organozirconium chemistry featured in April 2004 C&E News

Staff beats faculty in Spring 2004 Softball Showdown!

Prof. Robert J. Hamers is the Spring 2004 Graduate Student's Invited Lecturer

Prof. David Chandler (UC Berkeley) gave the 2004 W.E. Palke Memorial Lecture

Prof. Parson's group develops simple test for 'Date-Rape' drug GHB.

Prof. Gui Bazan wins NSF Creativity Award

Prof. Horia Metiu wins von Humboldt Award

Prof. Mattanjah Devries wins von Humboldt Award

Asst. Prof. Joan Shea wins Packard Award

Dan Little was recently named the Merck-Frosst Distinguished Lecturer for 2003. He delivered talks at Merck-Frosst in Montreal and the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec. Past lecturers include Amir Hoveyda, Jeffrey Winkler, Martin Kuehne, Arthur Schultz, David Crich, Albert Meyers, Philip Fuchs, Stephen Martin, Barry Trost, Amos Smith, III, John Vederas, Zdenek Valenta, Julius Rebek, James Marshall, and Edward Piers.

Plaxco and Heeger groups: Toward a Portable DNA Analyzer

Lipshutz Group Synthesizes Powerful Nutrition Supplement

Pearson Group alumni C.T. Kresge is 73rd in Top 100 Most-Cited Researchers in Chemistry

See Professor Curt Anderson's retirement party

Prof. Ralph Pearson has 13th most cited paper in the history of the JACS

Plaxco and Heeger groups develop reagentless, electrochemical DNA detection system

Pettus group develops a "New Tool" for the synthesis of o-Prenylated Phenol Nuclei.

Insight into the "heterogeneous" catalyst nickel-on-charcoal (Ni/C) developed by the Lipshutz group

Miriam Friedel (Shea group) was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship. Click here for more info.

Javin Oza (Reich Group) is a finalists for the Pfizer Hatton Award for his work on the role of DNA methylation in a major human pathogen causing periodontal disease.

Graduate Recruitment Weekend Pictures

UCSB Inorganic Chemistry program ranked 14th in the nation by US News

A short, highly efficient synthetic route to coenzyme Q10 has been developed by the Lipshutz group

Prof. Brown wins Research Innovation Award

Prof. Bazan develops a very promising method for testing for presence of DNA

Prof. Lipshutz wins distinquished teaching award from UCSB

Peter Blomgren (Lipshutz Group) recently won the distinguished ACS Organic division fellowship

Ryan Van De Water (Pettus Group) recently won the distinguished ACS Organic Division Fellowship

A Safe and Simple Test for a Common "Date-Rape" Drug developed

Graduation and Awards Reception Brochure

The Ford Research Group Reunion (slide show)

Annual Graduate Student Poster Show (slide show)

ACS Meeting in Florida (slide show)

2002 Softball Team Highlights (slide show)



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