News & Events

Assistant Professor Lior Sepunaru to join Chemistry & Biochemistry Faculty

The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry cordially welcomes Lior Sepunaru, who joined our department as Assistant Professor on July 1, 2017.

Prof. Alison Butler receives the Alfred Bader Award from ACS

Award Recipient: Alison Butler

Award Date: August 22, 2017

Congratulations to Prof. Alison Butler for winning the 2018 Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry! This national award given by the American Chemical Society (ACS) is sponsored by the Alfred R. Bader Fund to recognize outstanding research accomplishments at the interface between biology and organic or inorganic chemistry.

Take Ten With UCSB Glass Shop Manager Richard Bock

Did you know that UCSB has an in-house glassblowing facility? Meet glass shop manager Richard Bock and learn about the art and science of glassblowing in this latest Take Ten spotlight.

2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award Recipients

Award Date: May 24, 2017

CCS Appoints Associate Dean, Dr. Leroy Laverman

Award Date: January 26, 2017

DCB is happy to announce the recent appointment of Dr. Leroy Laverman to the position of Associate Dean in CCS. Dr. Laverman has been a part of the UCSB community since 1994 when he entered as a Chemistry graduate student.

Read more about it HERE.

Research Highlights: 2016

Shedding light on a dark solution: new insights into the classic iodine-starch reaction from the Seshadri and Wudl groups published in Angewandte Chemie. 
Click here for the article and report in The Current.

Four postdoctoral fellows receive awards to support their research in Chemistry and Biochemistry

Award Date: October 13, 2016

The Department congratulates Dr. Abigail Knight, Dr. Yann Fichou, Dr. Claudio Parolo, and Dr. Celia Blanco de Torres as recipients of postdoctoral fellowships supporting their research.

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/017126/and-winner

Professor Irene Chen receives a $2.1 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health.

Award Recipient: Irene Chen

Award Date: October 13, 2016

The NIH New Innovator Award is designed to "support unusually creative new investigators with highly innovative research ideas at an early stage of their career." 

Read more about it here.