Department News
- Cheers for the Franz lab receiving a new STAIR grant for Developing innovative vaccine platforms for the livestock population, check out the recent article about this exciting research!
- Double congratulations to Dr. Angela Shiau in the Britt group, for her new NIH F32 grant, Spectroscopic Characterization of Enzymatic Intermediates with FeS Clusters, plus her new Nature paper with the Tezcan group at UCSD!
- Assistant Professor Chenchen Song has received a NSF CAREER award to support her research in quantum chemistry method development for simulating photoreactions in biological environments. Congratulations!
- 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!
- Professor Jared Shaw and Assistant Professor Cody Pitts have each been awarded a NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA); congratulations to you both!
- Much praise and a congratulations to our undergraduate and graduate department Spring Award winners. Check out the complete list here!
