News & Events

Research Highlights: 2016

Shedding light on a dark solution: new insights into the classic iodine-starch reaction from the Seshadri and Wudl groups published in Angewandte Chemie. 
Click here for the article and report in The Current.

Professor Irene Chen receives a $2.1 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health.

Award Recipient: Irene Chen Award Date: October 13, 2016

The NIH New Innovator Award is designed to "support unusually creative new investigators with highly innovative research ideas at an early stage of their career." 

Read more about it here.

2017 Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods

Award Recipient: Bruce Lipshutz Award Date: October 13, 2016

Congratulations Professor Bruce Lipshutz!

Prof. Lipshutz is being recognized for his "outstanding and creative contributions to research in synthetic methods."

You can read more about Bruce and his prestigious award in the most recent issue of the UCSB Current, which can be found online at http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/017110/better-chemistry-through-chemistry

Four postdoctoral fellows receive awards to support their research in Chemistry and Biochemistry

Award Date: October 13, 2016

The Department congratulates Dr. Abigail Knight, Dr. Yann Fichou, Dr. Claudio Parolo, and Dr. Celia Blanco de Torres as recipients of postdoctoral fellowships supporting their research.

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/017126/and-winner

Broida-Hirschfelder Graduate Fellowship Award Recipient

Award Recipient: Thuy-Ai Nguyen Award Date: September 19, 2016

Congratulations Thuy-Ai (Bi) Nguyen!

Prof. Dan Little to retire and become Research Professor

Award Date: August 09, 2016

After 41 years of dedicated service to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the University of California, Santa Barbara, Prof. Dan Little has retired effective July 1, 2016. 

Prof. Mahdi Abu-Omar joins DCB as Mellichamp Chair in Green Chemistry

Award Date: August 09, 2016

It is with great pleasure that the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry welcomes Prof. Mahdi Abu-Omar as out newest faculty member.

UCSB alum is awarded prestigious award

Award Recipient: Kevin Moeller Award Date: May 30, 2016

UCSB alum, Kevin Moeller, has been named the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Manuel M. Baizer Award in Electrochemistry, from the Organic and Biological Electrochemistry Division of the Electrochemical Society