chemistry

Novel detection method co-developed at UCI ensures that drinking water sources are not compromised by algae blooms

UCI atmospheric chemist Donald Blake has won California’s elite Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award for his seminal pollution research.

Nine students from the Department of Chemistry and two from the Department of Earth System Science have earned graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation. An equal number received honorable mentions.

Jennifer Prescher, assistant professor of chemistry at UCI, is one of 13 researchers to win a 2015 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, which supports young faculty who’ve demonstrated outstanding commitment to research and education in the chemical sciences.

Irvine, Calif., Jan. 23, 2015 – UC Irvine and Australian chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites – an innovation that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry, according to findings published today in the journal ChemBioChem. “Yes, we have invented […]

Severe air pollution spikes during yearly pilgrimage, UCI and others find

Rachel Martin’s offbeat interests have led to a potentially eyesight-saving discovery

Led by Donald Blake, UCI scientists have been on a decades-long global quest to measure atmospheric pollution

Thanks to a UCI research program, junior Bryan Xie is already co-author of a groundbreaking study

UCI’s free, online chemistry lectures open the classroom doors to all