July 23, 2012
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…
May 11, 2017
May 11, 2017 —
Chemists have discovered that tiny particulate matter called aerosols lofted into the atmosphere by sea spray and the bursting of bubbles at the ocean’s surface are chemically altered by the presence of biological activity.
August 15, 2012
August 15, 2012 —
Sticky plaques of proteins called amyloids mark several different, though related degenerative brain diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Creutzfeld-Jacobs. The symptoms of these disorders overlap and methods to diagnose and monitor them are not very advanced.
October 18, 2022
October 18, 2022 —
Two early career researchers at the University of California San Diego have been named recipients of the 2022 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award from the NIH Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.
October 27, 2014
October 27, 2014 —
A self-driven reaction can assemble phospholipid membranes like those that enclose cells, a team of chemists at the University of California, San Diego, reports in Angewandte Chemie.
February 9, 2023
February 9, 2023 —
UC San Diego Assistant Professor of Physics Javier Duarte and Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Mark Herzik have been named 2023 Cottrell Scholars by Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).
November 23, 2020
November 23, 2020 —
52 faculty members and researchers at UC San Diego are among the world’s most influential in their fields, according to the Web of Science Group.
October 7, 2021
October 7, 2021 —
…Mendoza was an accomplished biochemistry professor from Mexico City, who delivered his lectures with a thick Mexican accent. “When I saw him, it was like something hit me in the center of my forehead and said, ‘That’s what you’re going to do. That’s who you’re going to be,’” said Gonzalez.…
August 9, 2013
August 9, 2013 —
…professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, a professor in the climate, atmospheric science and physical oceanography division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, the White House announced August 8. Sally Ride, former professor…
August 12, 2016
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.