Student Spotlight
Graduate Students
Names are in alphabetical order
Teaching Excellence Awards
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Teaching Assistant Excellence Awards for 2011. The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry bestows these awards annually in recognition of superior performance by teaching assistants. The award carries with it a $200 prize plus their names will be added to the Teaching Assistant Excellence Award plaque in the Student Affairs Office. Congratulations!
Agnes Flach
Michelle Ka Po Chan
Kat On
2011 Summer BBQ - Volleyball Champions TEAM USA!
Jeffrey Brodin is honored with the Bruno Zimm Award
Congratulations to Jeffrey Brodin, (Tezcan lab) he has been selected as the 2011 Bruno Zimm Award Recipient. The award recognizes research excellence in the field of biophysical chemistry. This prestigious award provides a prize of $1,000.
2011-12 Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS)
Congratulations to the new ARCS recipients for 2011-12, Patrick Blachly and Morgan Nunn. These scholarships reward excellence in research. Selection is based primarily on the exceptional promise of the nominee to make a significant contribution to the advancement of science, and to the material and intellectual welfare of all people.
Five students awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF)
National Science Foundation 2011-12 Graduate Research Fellowships
Corinne Allen (Seth Cohen, advisor)
Mehrnoosh Arrar (J. Andrew McCammon, advisor)
Henry Korman (K.C. Nicolaou, advisor)
Brandon Razooky (Leor Weinberger, advisor)
Olivia Ryder (Timothy Bertram, advisor)
More info on NSF GRFP: http://www.nsfgrfp.org/
2011 DIC Young Investigator Awards
Graduate students Eric Salgado and Kristine Tanabe won Young Investigator Awards from the American Chemical Society's Division of Inorganic Chemistry. They are two out of the eight winners who will speak at a symposium honoring talented young inorganic chemists this fall at the 2011 ACS meeting in Denver. Each winner will give a presentation and receive $1000 and a commemorative plaque. This is the first time two students from one dept have won this award. Akif Tezcan and Seth Cohen are their proud advisers.
2010 Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Chapter
We are pleased to announce that Sujata Emani and David Gonzalez have both been selected to be members of the inaugural class of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Chapter here at UCSD. They are being recognized for their academic and personal excellence, passion to foster an environment of support and to serve as examples of scholarship, leadership, character, service and advocacy for students who have been traditionally underrepresented. All in honor of Dr. Alexander Bouchet who embodied such qualities and was the first African American doctoral recipient in the United States. Congratulations!
Socrates Fellows
The Socrates Fellows Program is funded by NSF as a Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 education. Our Socrates PhD Fellows and Teacher Partners participate in a four-week summer institute followed by a productive collaboration during the academic year.
2011-2012 - Gabriel Reyes-Rodriguez2010-2011 - Jiliian Blatti, Kristina Pohaku Mitchell, Emily Satkiewicz, Zephen Specht, and Carmen Laura Velez
2009-2010 - John Goeltz, Kristina, Pohaku Mitchell, and Andro Rios
Graduate Student Recruitment Committee
Big thanks to Travis Blane, Alex Carpenter, Timia Crisp, Donald Johnson, Sarah Smith, and Rachel Tsui for all of their help with Graduate Admissions and Recruitment. You all did a very good job and we can't thank you enough!
2010 Summer BBQ - Volleyball Champions
Congratulations (pictured from left to right) Team Indiana, Team Vuvuzelas, and the reigning champs...Team USA!
Undergraduate Students
2011 Mayer Award
The Mayer Award recognizes outstanding research in chemistry by a graduating senior. The award is in honor of Joseph E. Mayer, one of the first members of the Department of Chemistry at UCSD. He came to San Diego in 1960 at the urging of Clark Kerr, who was then the President of the University of California, and Roger Revelle. Mayer was a renowned physical chemist who influenced the development of our chemistry department and this campus. Congratulations to Nathan Hendricks!
2011 Urey Award
The Harold C. Urey Award is given to the most outstanding graduating chemistry major each year. Harold Urey came to La Jolla in 1958 as a founding father of the UCSD campus, and one of the first members of its chemistry department. He had won the Nobel Prize in 1934 for his discovery of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen. This award was established in 1973, in honor of Dr. Urey's 80th birthday, we are pleased to award Brittany Michel, Sihui Ma, and Julia Stauber! Congratulations!
Teaching Excellence Awards
Congratulations to Nellab Yakuby, a recipient of the Teaching Assistant Excellence Awards for 2011. The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry bestows these awards annually in recognition of superior performance by teaching assistants. The award carries with it a $200 prize plus their names will be added to the Teaching Assistant Excellence Award plaque in the Student Affairs Office. Congratulations!
2011 Silagi Award
Congratulations Julia M. Stauber in being honored with the 2011 Silagi Award! The Dr. Selma Silagi Award honors the late research scientist who moved to San Diego after retiring as professor emeritus from Cornell University in 1987. It is presented to a top UCSD graduating senior in one of the four natural sciences on the basis of academic performance, research, accomplishment, creativity, charisma, and potential for achievement.
Graduate Program
