News & Events

Congratulations Graduate Student Award Recipients!

Award Date: June 3, 2012

Richard Lewis
President's Dissertation Year Fellowship
2012-13
Richard is a fourth year Inorganic student in the Hayton Group.

Gesine Veits
Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship
2012-13
Gesine is a 3rd year Organic student in the Read de Alaniz Group.

Grad Student Yichi Zhang wins ENFL Poster Symposium

Award Date: May 30, 2012

We were all very impressed with the high quality of posters and the quality of the work that was demonstrated. Very well done to all! Judging turned out to be very difficult but the winners are:

Joint first

Craig Hawker Awarded 2012 Centenary Prize for Chemistry

Award Date: May 16, 2012

Craig Hawker, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has received the 2012 Centenary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry. http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2729

Departmental alumnus elected as a foreign member to the Royal Society

Award Date: April 26, 2012

http://royalsociety.org/people/jack-dixon/

Norbert Reich and collaborators discover the processes leading to acute myeloid leukemia

Award Date: January 6, 2012

Norbert Reich and collaborators discover the processes leading to acute myeloid leukemia.

Chemistry student awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Award Date: January 2, 2012

Chemistry and Biochemistry graduate student Niva Ran was awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Congratulations Niva!

Professors Dahlquist and Plaxco elected as AAAS fellows

Award Date: December 23, 2011

Rick Dahlquist and Kevin Plaxco have recently been elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS.)

Han wins 2011 NIH Director's New Innovator Award

Award Date: Oct 20, 2011

Song-I Han wins 2011 NIH Director's New Innovator Award, doted with $1.5M.