January 31, 2013
The Icon of Organic Chemistry Charles Perrin begins his 50th year at UC San Diego Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Ask any science major to name the toughest class they’ve had to complete in order to get into medical school or finish their undergraduate degree and, more than…
September 13, 2012
…PhD, professor of pharmacology, chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his role in helping develop and expand the use of green fluorescent proteins (GFP) was honored today with one of the first-ever “Golden Goose…
January 17, 2012
Daniel J. Donoghue, vice-chair of the University of California, San Diego’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has been appointed as provost at UC San Diego’s Sixth College, effective January 2012.
August 12, 2016
Mark Thiemens, a former dean and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego, has won the most prestigious prize awarded in the field of meteoritics —the scientific discipline concerned with the study of solar system origin, evolution and history.
May 16, 2016
…distinguished chair in atmospheric chemistry at the University of California San Diego, will receive the Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award from the California Air Resources Board May 18. Board officials said they bestowed the award upon Prather in its Atmospheric Chemistry Research category to acknowledge her “pioneering work that has transformed…
May 22, 2014
…presented Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Mario Molina with the UCSD Medal, the highest honor the university bestows and one that has only been presented 10 times, mostly to visiting heads of state. Khosla cited Margaret Mead’s aphorism that a small group of committed people can change the world…
February 3, 2022
…student. Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Dontarie Stallings is the program’s faculty director. When he first came to campus, he pitched a program that caught students early enough in their academic careers to provide meaningful support that could change their academic trajectory. “Often the students who struggle are the…
June 2, 2016
…an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego, has been named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, one of 13 faculty members nationwide to receive the honor. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained in the early years of…
June 22, 2015
Chemists and biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in designing and synthesizing an artificial cell membrane capable of sustaining continual growth, just like a living cell.
February 1, 2012
…Gianneschi Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Award - Sloan Foundation Research Fellow Alireza Salehi Golsefidy Assistant Professor of Mathematics Award - Sloan Foundation Research Fellow Juan C. Lasheras Stanford and Beverly Penner Professor of Applied Sciences Award - Elected to National Academy of Engineering Roger P. Levy Assistant Professor…
