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11/23/09 Scientists Visualize How Bacteria Talk to One Another
   
11/05/09 UCSD ranked 3rd in Federal support for chemistry research
   
10/27/09 Previously unknown volcanic eruption helped trigger cold decade
   
11/08/08 Congratulations to Roger Tsien, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry!
   
10/31/08 Leor Weinberger wins NIH Director's New Innovator Award
   
10/30/08 A Twist in the Genome Thwarts Hepatitis C
   
10/29/08 Kimberly Prather wins the ACS Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science & Technology
   
10/28/08 Leor Weinberger wins W.M. Keck Research Excellence Award
   
10/27/08 Academic Chemists from US and China Cement Global Ties
   
10/27/08 Michael Sailor Develops Neon Cancer Detector
   
10/26/08 Professor Taylor to be awarded Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science
   
10/25/08 New ship rules strike a blow for clean air
   
10/24/08 Sulfate Lens Enhances Climate Warming Properties of Atmospheric Soot
   
10/23/08 Drs. Stacey Brydges and Christina Johnson given 2008-09 Faculty Appreciation Awards
   
10/22/08 Professor Susan Taylor honored with FASEB Excellence in Science Award
   
10/21/08 University of Rochester Distinguished Scholar Award to Distinguished Professor Clifford Kubiak
   
10/20/08 Scientists Make First Direct Observations of Biological Particles in High-Altitude Clouds
   
10/19/08 Tsien Nobel Laureate Lecture given at UCSD
   
10/19/08 Joshua Figueroa and Michael Tauber selected as 2009-2010 Hellman Fellows
   
10/18/08 Physical Sciences Dean Thiemens named 2009 Goldschmidt Medalist
   
10/18/08 Distinguished Professor Wolynes awarded Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry
   
10/18/08 Leor Weinberger awarded a Young Innovator IDEA Award
   
10/18/08 Students win 2009 NSF Fellowships
   
10/18/08 Nobel laureate Mario Molina on President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
   
10/18/08 Sustainability Award for Professor Kim Prather
   
10/18/08 Leor Weinberger awarded a Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration grant
   
10/17/08 Distinguished Professor Susan Taylor elevated to AAAS Fellow
   
10/16/08 Distinguished Professor Edward Dennis receives Yale Medal and Honorary Doctorate Degree, Goethe Univ
   
10/15/08 Nobel laureate Mario Molina on President-Elect Obama's transition team
   
10/14/08 Distinguished Professor Roger Tsien among Nobel Laureates to visit the White House
   
10/09/08 Pieter Dorrestein to receive Eli Lilly Young Investigator Award in Analytical Chemistry
   
10/08/08 New techniques lead to break-through drugs targeting African sleeping sickness
   
10/07/08 NIH grant for lipid MAPS study
   
10/06/08 V Foundation grant for Professor Pieter Dorrestein
   
10/06/08 Classic Stanley Miller research reanalyzed
   
9/11/08 Researchers Develop Nano-Sized 'Cargo Ships' to Target and Destroy
   
9/05/08 Theory of the Sun's Role in Formation of the Solar System Questioned
   
9/04/08 Outpacing climate change with atmospheric research collaboration
   
9/03/08 Smoke Smudges Mexico City's Air, Chemists Identify Sources
   
8/19/08 Dirty Smoke From Ships Found To Degrade Air Quality In Coastal Cities
   
8/15/08 UCSD student, Anthony Fu, featured for green initiative
   
8/11/08 Ricin's Deadly Action Revealed by Glowing Probes
   
8/07/08 Chemists Observe Concerted Three-Body Breakup
   
8/01/08 NY Times article highlights Professor Peter Wolynes' theory of glass
   
7/31/08 Dreyfus New Faculty Award for Professor Nathan Gianneschi
   
7/02/08 Professor Jerry Yang receives 2008 Alzheimer's Association New Investigator Award
   
6/17/08 Scientists discover DNA knot keeps viral genes tightly corked inside shell
   
6/06/08 UCSD students 1st, 2nd, and 4th in USC Medical Engineering Innovation Challenge
   
6/04/08 Glowing spray lets CSI operatives 'dust' for explosives
   
5/23/08 UCSD chemists develop chemoselective polymer to quickly identify traces from explosives
   
5/07/08 UC San Diego Researchers Target Tumors with Tiny 'Nanoworms'
   
5/01/08 Teaching award won by Dr. Haim Weizman
   
5/01/08 Teaching award won by Robert Radford
   
4/24/08 "Molecules That Changed the World" by Professors K.C. Nicolaou and Tamsyn Montagnon
   
4/03/08 Three Chem/Biochem students win NSF graduate research fellowships
   
3/27/08 Beckman Young Investigator Awards for F. Akif Tezcan and Pieter Dorrestein
   
3/24/08 UCSD chemists find important contributor to smog
   
3/18/08 UC San Diego Scientists Develop Sensor for Homemade Bombs
   
3/17/08 Insight into HIV's "On-Off" Switch
   
2/29/08 Marjorie Hardy wins 2008 Betsy Faught Award
   
12/03/07 Organic chemistry for the YouTube generation
   
11/05/07 UCSD fifth in nation for federal R&D support for chemistry
   
11/01/07 Calling all Undergraduates! Get involved, get connected, get fed, and have fun with the UCSD ACSSA!
   
10/27/07 The department mourns the passing of Adjunct Professor Leslie Orgel.
   
10/12/07 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, IPCC and Al Gore
   
9/07/07 Edward Dennis to receive the European Lipid Science Award 2007
   
8/30/07 Discovery led by Pat Jennings and Mark Paddock (Physics) may lead to a new class of diabetes drugs.
   
8/25/07 The department mourns the passing of Stanley L. Miller, father of 'Origin of Life' chemistry
   
8/23/07 Andy McCammon to receive 2008 ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research
   
8/23/07 UCSD top again among big producers of chemistry graduates (C&E News)
   
8/16/07 New approach to control of quantum systems developed by Peter Wolynes and Martin Gruebele (UIUC)
   
7/31/07 Joshua S. Figueroa has been selected to receive the 2007 Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award
   
7/19/07 Peter Wolynes has been chosen to receive the Founders Award from the Biophysical Society
   
6/21/07 Amanda Lewis has been awarded the 2006­-2007 Martin D. Kamen Prize
   
5/21/07 Michael Burkart wins an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship
   
5/18/07 Peter Wolynes elected Foreign Member of The Royal Society
   
5/07/07 Judy Kim and Akif Tezcan win NSF CAREER awards
   
5/01/07 Alexander Hoffmann and Teru Nakagawa named Hellman Fellows
   
4/27/07 Mario Molina elected to the American Philosophical Society
   
4/25/07 Professor Peter Wolynes has been elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
   
4/09/07 New Route For Halide Addition
   
1/25/07 Molecular Link between Inflammation and Cancer Discovered
   
1/04/07 Chemistry of Volcanic Fallout Reveals Secrets of Past Eruptions
   
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