KEYWORD

chemistry

Sheryl Tsai

A fruitful career

Sheryl Tsai serves both present and future as a groundbreaking scientist and as an award-winning professor.

Students prepare Evans for contamination simulation

Handle with care

Safety staff do hands-on training with chemistry majors.

Larry Overman

Molecular mix master

Chemist Larry Overman, who helped develop the acclaimed department, loves teaching as much as reassembling molecules.

Mikael Nilsson

Taking the ‘waste' out of nuclear waste

While spent nuclear fuel continues to pile up by the ton across the United States, engineering professor Mikael Nilsson says the solution is clear: recycle it at the commercial nuclear power plants that create it.

Program fosters future science, math teachers

UCI program helps meet nation’s critical need for more – and better – math and science teachers.

John C. Hemminger new vice chancellor for research

Physical sciences dean since 2006, the renowned chemist is a ‘committed campus collaborator.’

Ervin Meneses, a summer intern in Reginald Penner's chemistry lab at UCI

Teen goes for gold in UCI chemistry lab

Santa Ana teen excels at UCI Physics lab summer program.

Richard Barrington

AirUCI gets teachers pumped up about chemistry

AirUCI summer workshop aims to inspire seventh- to 12th-grade science teachers so they can inspire their own students.

Needle and a bee

Synthetic antibodies create buzz

In breakthrough, UCI chemists create synthetic antibodies that block dispersion of bee venom in bloodstream.

Gregory Weiss

Young scientists of the world unite

Global Young Academy, co-chaired by UCI chemist Gregory Weiss, supports, gives voice to world’s junior researchers.