The 5th Annual UC Davis Inorganic Chemistry Symposium was held on October 29, 2024 at the Student Community Center. This event was designed to highlight innovative studies in inorganic chemistry. The day consisted of invited speaker presentations given by Alison Butler from UC Santa Barbara, Trevor Hayton from UC Santa Barbara, Allyson Fry-Petit from CSU Fullerton, Paula Diaconescu from UCLA, and Edward Solomon from Stanford University.
The event also included a poster session that granted postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to present their work and earn poster prizes. At the conclusion of the event best poster awards were given to Alexander Jackson (Cramer Lab), Megan Treece (Kauzlarich Lab), David Coppage (Franz Lab), Shuyu Xu (Berben Lab), Moises Albuquerque de Araujo (Osterloh Lab), Joel Shirey (Kauzlarich Lab), Melissa Bollmeyer (Britt Lab) and Nohely Lopez (Chico State).
Hosting events like this allow for students to network between academic and industry professionals in their fields of study, it provides an opportunity for our alumni to visit UC Davis and it provides an opportunity for us to interact with researchers and students from our neighboring colleges and universities. This year we were happy to welcome faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students from University of Reno, UC Santa Barbara, National Cheng Kung University, Chico State, University of Oxford, University of San Francisco, Edith Cowan University, UC San Diego, and San Jose State University.