Chemistry

Humanity now has a vaccine for coronavirus. For many, this seems matter of fact — “of course there’s a vaccine.” It’s as matter of fact as picking up the telephone and ordering pizza. You’re hungry,…

The award will give her and her collaborators $1.5 million dollars over three years to use “biological flashlights” to illuminate molecules.

The project, with the help of a $25,000 grant, will create connections between UCI graduate students and minority-serving universities. 

An episode about masks and coronavirus and much, much more.  

As a fellow, Ardo will have a platform he can use to pitch ideas to industry professionals, and take his climate change-related research mainstream.

The awards honor efforts in research, teaching, and in making the world a better place to live.

A theory, designed by UCI chemists, provides a new way to model molecules. The method is akin to a "golden shortcut," leveraging the part of calculations that most existing theories get right, but skipping over the parts that create errors.

His work is helping Professor Rachel Martin in the Department of Chemistry look for mutations in the virus’ genetic sequence, which could lead to COVID-19 treatments.

Our alumni take a part of UCI and the School of Physical Sciences with them when they graduate and leave campus.

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 6, 2020 — University of California, Irvine biomedical engineer Chang Liu is the recipient of one of nine Director’s Transformative Research Awards this year from the National…

For our first conversation, we are thrilled to have three experts working at the forefront of COVID-19 diagnostics: John Gerace (President, DiaSorin Molecular), Reg Penner (Chancellor’s Professor of…

In this conversation, three experts discussed climate change and air quality during COVID-19.