Department News
- Osvaldo Gutierrez, a former Ph.D. student in Dean Tantillo's lab, has accepted a prestigious faculty position in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UCLA. Congratulations, Osvaldo, on this significant achievement! Check out more of the story!
- Professor R. David Britt is the 2024 Distinguished Alumnus Awardee for the NC State University College of Sciences! Congratulations!
- Daniel Suess, a former postdoc in Dr. Britt's lab and current faculty member at MIT, has been awarded tenure. Congratulations, Dan!
- New academic year, new Chemistry building! Letters and Science recently covered the new building updates and additions to the Chemistry building here.
- Recently CHE 125 Advanced Methods in Physical Chemistry was featured in an L&S article! Hear more about the students and their projects here.
- Check out Rowan Brower's (Velazquez Lab) Frontiers in Energy Research Newsletter to learn about their work with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Center for Closing the Carbon Cycle (4C).
- Check out this story featuring Marie Heffern and her path to tenure!
- Congratulations to Elizabeth Neumann for receiving the Incentives for Large Grant Award from the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis!
- Check out this Intel post featuring alumna Rene Johnson (Casey Lab) for International Women in Engineering Day!
- Congratulations to Rachel Siegel (Berben Lab) selected for the Office of Science Graduate Research (SCGSR) program and will be conducting research at a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory!
- Congratulations to Associate Professor Marie Heffern who has been awarded one of three prestigious Dean’s Faculty Fellows for 2024!
- Congrats to Professor Louise Berben and Professor of Teaching (SRLSOE) Ozcan Gulacar who have been newly elected as 2023 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows!
- Recently Assistant Professor Elizabeth Neumann and graduate student Catelynn Shafer won research awards from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, congrats to the Neumann lab!
- Cheers to Samantha Lynn Mayer (Shaw Lab) was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from the American Chemical Society Organic division!
- Cheers to Ozcan Gulacar for being honored by the UC Davis Academic Federation and Senate and receiving the Distinguished Teaching Award – Undergraduate Teaching!
- Congratulations to David Olson for being promoted to Full Professor!
- Congratulations to Marie Heffern for her promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure!
- Congratulations to Ozcan Gulacar for receiving a promotion to Full Professor of Teaching (LSOE)!
- Maggie Berrens of the Donadio Lab has been invited to the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, what an honor!
- Congratulations to Assistant Professor Cody Ross Pitts for being part of the Organic Chemistry Frontiers Inaugural Early Career Advisory Board!
- Check out research from Professor of Chemistry Dean Tantillo, graduate students William DeSnoo and Croix Laconsay, and their colleagues at the Max Planck Institute! Harnessing Aliphatic Hydrocarbons: Researchers Step Closer to Mimicking Nature’s Mastery of Chemistry
- Building a Space for Academic Rigor and Empathy: Tracing the Origin of a Chemist with Jesus Velazquez
- Congratulations to Associate Professor Kristie Koski for being promoted with tenure!
- Cheers to Professor Davide Donadio for being elected a 2023 Fellow of the American Physical Society!
- Congratulations to Professor Louise Berben on her recent ACS National Award in Organometallic Chemistry!
- Professor Jared Shaw and Assistant Professor Cody Pitts have each been awarded a NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA); congratulations to you both!
- Cheers to Professor Mark Mascal on recieving a Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award from UC Davis Graduate Studies!
- Congratulations to Beal Lab for receiving additional funding from Rett Syndrome Research Trust for their RNA editing research! Read more here.
- Much praise and a congratulations to our undergraduate and graduate department Spring Award winners. Check out the complete list here!
