Department News
- 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!
- Please check out a recent significant breakthrough in the production of low-calorie sugar substitutes involving Professor Shota Atsumi and Professor Justin Siegel!
- 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!
- Congrats to both Estely Carranza (Heffern/Murray lab) and Adilene Bernal Sánchez (Franz lab) who have been named winners of the 2023 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color!
- Kudos to Dr. Julia Chamberlain who has been named a 2023 L&S Science Teaching Award winner! Congrats!
- Congratulations to Professor Annaliese Franz, the winner of the 2023 Dr. Mohsen Najafi Research Award in Medicinal Chemistry!
- Cheers to Professor David Olson who recently recieved the Rising Star Award in Neurobiology of Psychedelics from the Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Check out the L&S News article here too!
- Congratulations to graduate student Jesi Lee (Fiehn and Wang labs) for winning an Outstanding Poster award at the West Coast Theoretical Chemistry meeting!
- Professor R. David Britt has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in a first for our department. Congratulations!!
- Brandon Cutler (Augustine lab) is the recipient of the People's Choice award at the campus-wide Grad Slam competition. Watch his presentation here!
- Congratulations to our NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) awardees: Kingston Robinson (Velazquez lab), Abby Ragan (Pitts lab), and James Vesto (Berben lab), and honorable mentions Rachel Siegel (Berben lab), Yannick Kramer (Pitts lab) and Catelynn Ridge (Neumann lab)!
- Congratulations to Victorio Matos (Beal Lab) for receiving honorable mention for the NASEM Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.
- Kudos to postdoctoral researcher Frank Cerasoli (Donadio lab) who was recently featured in the UCD College of Letters and Sciences news for using computer simulations to model materials at the molecular level, with the hope of discovering new materials that can advance our technologies.
- Professor Shota Atsumi has been awarded part of a successful Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) grant from the NSF that focuses on developing composite materials of engineered cells encapsulated within a polymeric matrix. Congratulations!
- Check out this article about the Davis Science Café - a monthly conversation between scientists and the public originally founded by Professor Jared Shaw in 2010 and still going strong today.