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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

Departmental alumni Jack Dixon, who received his PhD from Tom Bruice, was just elected as a foreign member to the Royal Society.

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.

Russu promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at University of Pacific

Award Date: September 1, 2011

DCB Alumnus Wade Russu, Ph.D. 2002, promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at University of the Pacific.

Read de Alaniz receives prestigious awards

Award Date: July 2, 2011

Congratulations to Professor Javier Read de Alaniz for receiving the 2011 Eli Lilly New Faculty Award and 2011 NSF Career Award!