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Chemistry

Kenneth C. Janda

Position: 
Dean, Professor
Department: 
Physical Sciences
Department: 
Chemistry
Contact Information
Office Location: 
164 Rowland Hall, 317 Rowland Hall
Office Phone: 
(949) 824-6022, (949) 824-5266

Alan F. Heyduk

Position: 
Associate Professor
Department: 
Chemistry
Contact Information
Email Address: 
aheyduk@uci.edu
Office Location: 
4116 Natural Sciences 1
Office Phone: 
(949) 824-8806

John C. Hemminger

Position: 
Professor, Vice Chancellor for Research
Department: 
Chemistry
Contact Information
Email Address: 
jchemmin@uci.edu
Office Location: 
160 Aldrich Hall, 334B Rowland Hall
Office Phone: 
(949) 824-5796, (949) 824-6020

Aaron P. Esser-Kahn

Position: 
Assistant Professor
Department: 
Chemistry
Contact Information
Email Address: 
aesserka@uci.edu
Office Location: 
3038A Frederick Reines Hall
Office Phone: 
(949) 824-4936

Vy M. Dong

Position: 
Professor
Department: 
Chemistry
Contact Information
Email Address: 
dongv@uci.edu
Office Location: 
4206 Natural Sciences I
Office Phone: 
(949) 824-9758

Physical Sciences Breakfast Lecture Series

Featured: 
regular
Speaker: 
Vy Dong
Professor of Chemistry
University of California, Irvine
Event date: 
January 29, 2013 - 7:30am
Sponsored / Hosted by: 
Discover the Physical Sciences 2012-13 Breakfast Lecture Series
Intended Audience: 
General Public
Open to public: 
yes

Every morning before heading out to school, the laboratory, or the office, most of us will take a careful look at our image in the mirror. Like you and your reflection, organic molecules can exist as mirror images of each other. These "left" and "right" hand molecules are called "enantiomers" and they have different biological activity. For example, one molecule can save lives, while its enantiomer acts as a deadly poison.

About the Speaker: 

Vy Dong was born in Big Spring, Texas and grew up in Anaheim, California. She graduated magna cum laude from UC Irvine where she majored in chemistry and completed an honor's project with Professor Larry Overman. After graduation, she earned her Ph.D. at Caltech and completed postdoctoral studies at UC Berkeley. She began her independent academic career at the University of Toronto, where she was named the Adrian Brook Professor. In the summer of 2012, Vy returned to the United States to assume a professorship at her alma mater, UC Irvine. Professor Dong's research team aims to solve challenges in organic synthesis through the study and design of catalytic methods.

Department: 
Chemistry

Deep Green: Long-Term Zero-Carbon Power for the 21st Century

Featured: 
featured
Speaker: 
A.J. Shaka
Professor of Chemistry
University of California, Irvine
Event date: 
October 18, 2011 - 7:30am
Sponsored / Hosted by: 
Discover the Physical Sciences 2011-12 Breakfast Lecture Series
Intended Audience: 
General Public
Open to public: 
yes
RSVP to: 
events@ps.uci.edu
RSVP by date: 
October 14, 2011

Dean Kenneth C. Janda and the School of Physical Sciences at the University of California, Irvine invite you to 'Discover the Physical Sciences 2011-12 Breakfast Lecture Series.' Our first lecture will feature Professor A.J. Shaka from the department of Chemistry at UCI. He will present "Deep Green: Long-Term Zero-Carbon Power for the 21st Century." Parking for the series is free in the Student Center Parking Structure located on the corner of Pereira Dr. and West Peltason.

About the Speaker: 

Dr. Shaka received his Ph. D. from Oxford University in 1984 on a Rhodes Scholarship, and joined the UCI faculty in 1988 after a Miller Fellowship at UC Berkeley. He is an expert in magnetic resonance, and is a licensed Senior Reactor Operator for UCI's research nuclear reactor. He was elected a Fellow of the AAAS in 2007 and was awarded an Emmy for Best Instructional Video for a chemistry distance-learning project with Coastline College in 2010. He appears from time to time in the "Ancient Aliens" series on the History Channel. See Dr. Shaka's Faculty Profile at http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2175.

Department: 
Physical Sciences
Department: 
Chemistry

Jing Zheng

Position: 
Graduate Student
Department: 
Chemistry
Contact Information
Office Location: 
4302 Natural Sciences 1
Office Phone: 
(949) 824-2771

Zaw Than

Position: 
Clinical Lab Scientist
Department: 
Chemistry
Contact Information
Email Address: 
zthan@uci.edu
Office Location: 
Building 1, Basement, LL0620 RT. 80
Office Phone: 
(714) 456-5507

Zenghui Yang

Position: 
Graduate Student
Department: 
Chemistry
Contact Information
Email Address: 
zenghuiy@uci.edu
Office Location: 
1206 Natural Sciences II
Office Phone: 
(949) 824-0687