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Welcome to the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara

Faculty Highlights

Congratulations Asst. Professor Lior Sepunaru!

Distinguished Teaching Award

Congratulations Professor Alison Butler!

2022 Tolman Award

Congratulations Professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen!

New Member of National Academy of Engineering

Congratulations Professor Yang Yang!

2023 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award

More Announcements

Department News

Congratulations to Graduate Student Hiba Wakidi!
  1. May 5, 2023

Biosciences Research Accelerator Award

Congratulations to Graduate Student Arunavo Chakraborty!
  1. May 1, 2023

Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship

Extended Job Opening: Academic Coordinator Undergraduate Instructional Support
  1. October 27, 2022 - 11:45am
  2. April 24, 2023

Job Application

Congratulations to Graduate Student Osvaldo Ordonez!
  1. April 26, 2023

2023-2024 UC President's Pre-Professoriate Fellowship

Welcome New Assistant Professor, Nadia Léonard!
  1. April 20, 2023

New Assistant Professor!

Job Opening: Lecturer in Biochemistry
  1. April 3, 2023

Apply Here

Research Highlights

2023

Concept illustration depicts highly mobile electrons moving across the polymer

A game-changing method of "upcycling" plastics helps clear the path towards a circular economy

Sussanah Scott research group

 

2022

Concept illustration depicts highly mobile electrons moving across the polymer

A New Kind of Chemo Reich Group  

Researchers identify a new class of drugs that offer a safer, more targeted treatment for leukemia patients

 

Concept illustration depicts highly mobile electrons moving across the polymer

Flexing the Power of a Conductive Polymer Nguyen Group

A new material holds promise for the next generation of organic electronics

Evolving metalloproteins for stereocontrolled radical reactions from the Yang group is published in Science (2021).

See The Current news article, the journal article and a highlight in Science for more information.