November 1, 2012
Mario J. Molina, Chemistry, 1995 Mario J. Molina. Photo by Donna Coveney/MIT Mario J. Molina’s move from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to UC San Diego in 2004 provided him with two important advantages: First, he was able to join a world-renowned group of atmospheric scientists that included Paul Crutzen,…
July 28, 2022
Professor of Chemistry Neal Devaraj Named Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow Department of Defense fellowship is agency’s most prestigious research grant award Neal K. Devaraj, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego, has been named a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow by the Department of Defense (DOD). Devaraj was one…
February 20, 2020
UC San Diego Biochemistry Touches the Fashion World Design featured in “Behind Mechanisms” uses garments to demonstrate protein folder. Photos courtesy of Jinghan Zong In the world of fashion, inspiration is born from the ordinary and extraordinary—city streets, nature, architecture, culture . . . and biochemistry? For UC San Diego…
November 5, 2015
…Obirieze (Nanoengineering), Alejandra Arroyave (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Sean Bearden (Physics), Professor Shirley Meng, Professor Tara Javidi, Professor Pamela Cosman Front row (L-R): Professor Adam Burgasser, Nancy Ronquillo (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Robyn Ridley (Materials Science and Engineering), Franklin Orndorff-Plunket (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Adriana Corrales (Chemistry and Biochemistry), Assistant Dean…
August 13, 2020
…in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, who recently received the American Chemistry Society Bridge Program (ACS-BP) Award after a formal selection process. “This award provides some funding in addition to the support we received from the Graduate Division, the Division of Physical Sciences and the Department of Chemistry and…
April 25, 2012
Jack E. Dixon, PhD, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor of pharmacology, cellular and molecular medicine, chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego has been named a foreign member of the Royal Society.
July 23, 2012
A chemistry professor at UC San Diego was among 96 scientists and engineers named by President Obama today as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research…
February 14, 2011
…is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry/Scripps Institution of Oceanography and he is the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. He shared the Prize with Sherwood Rowland of U.C. Irvine and Paul Crutzen, also now on the UC San Diego faculty, for elucidating the threat of chlorofluorocarbon gases…
April 20, 2015
With a tag, an anchor and a cage that can be unlocked with light, chemists have devised a simple, modular system that can locate proteins at the membrane of a cell.
October 24, 2013
…Jackson, staff research associate, chemistry and biochemistry; and Mary Walshok, associate vice chancellor for public programs and dean of UC San Diego Extension. Mae Brown Assistant Vice Chancellor of Admissions and Enrollment Services Mae Brown began working in the office of undergraduate admissions at UC San Diego in 1972 as…
