Tao Ye's group received a $510,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate the self-assembly of DNA nanostructures using new single-molecule techniques.
Welcome two new faculty specializing in organic synthesis and organometallic chemistry: Ryan Baxter and Ben Stokes. Ryan is setting up his lab now and Ben will be starting in January.
NSF research experience for undergraduates for "Applications in Modern Materials" is approved and will be starting this summer. Interested students should email Carrie Menke (cmenke@ucmerced.edu) or Jess Vickery (jvickery@ucmerced.edu) for more info.
Computational chemist Christine Isborn wins the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund award for "Quantum Mechanical Calculations of Large-Scale Explicit Solvation."
