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🚨 We are hiring!
Together with the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, we are recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Structural Biochemistry.
Apply by Oct. 16 for full consideration:
👉 apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF045…
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Huge congratulations, Yitzhak! 🎉🥳Read more: degruyterbrill.com/document/…
Congratulations to the team!
🚨 Now out in its final form in @NatureComms, with volume and article number! 🏄♀️
👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-7…
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Congratulations to Professor Yuen-Zhou, one of six Chemical Sciences finalists for the 2026 @BlavatnikAwards! 🎉
A wonderful recognition of his work at the intersection of chemistry and quantum science. 🙌
Read more: nyas.org/press-release/final…
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Congratulations, Dr. Rashmi! 🎓
It’s our distinct pleasure to introduce Dr. Richa Rashmi, #PhD #17 from our lab! 🎓
Through #datadriven #manybody quantum simulations, Richa has helped explain what vibrational spectra tell us about water 🌊, ice 🧊, and aqueous interfaces. 🏄♀️
Along the way, she has been a wonderful mentor and collaborator, sharing her time and ideas and helping all of us grow as scientists and as people. 🫶 We are so grateful for everything she has contributed to our group! 🙌
We could not be prouder and look forward to seeing what she does next as she heads to @Columbia for her postdoc! 🚀
Congratulations, Richa! 🎉
#OnceAPirateAlwaysAPirate 🏴☠️
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UC San Diego continues to rank among the best universities in the world. 🌎
We’re proud to rank No. 4 among U.S. public universities, No. 14 among all U.S. universities and No. 20 in the world in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities. 🔗 bit.ly/4wZSMyp
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Congratulations to Prof. Cliff Kubiak on the 2027 @AmerChemSociety Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry! 🎉
He is only the fourth person to win all three ACS awards in Inorganic Chemistry. 🙌
cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs-nam…
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Our 2026 @AmerChemSociety Graduate Student honorees! 🎉
Sarah Ko (Griffith Lab): Leadership in Mentoring
Ian Leifer (Godula Lab): Leadership in Science Outreach and Engagement
acs.org/funding/awards/gradu…
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🎉 Congratulations to Liya Bi of Prof. Shaowei Li’s group on receiving a 2026 Graduate Research Award from the American Vacuum Society for outstanding work in single-molecule spectroscopy and microscopy! ⚡️🔬
avs.org/awards/national-stud…
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Great to see the @PaesaniLab in hackathon mode! 💻 Looking forward to exciting progress on molecular simulations. 🚀
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🖥️ Hackathon mode ON! 🖥️
👉 quantum-multiscale.org/hacka…
Ethan, Xuanyu, Xinmao, and Zitong are spending the week coding side by side with the @MikPavanello and @OAndreussi groups and the broader Quantum Multiscale community as part of our joint @NSF project.
Our group is currently working on #GPU acceleration of #MBX electrostatics and the integration of #MBX with the #ELECTRODE package in #LAMMPS. These developments will further expand the scope of #datadriven #manybody simulations, enabling realistic modeling of increasingly complex molecular systems and electrochemical interfaces. Stay tuned! 🏄♀️
#MBX resources:
✅ mbxsimulations.com
✅ github.com/paesanilab/MBX
✅ groups.google.com/g/mbx-user…
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What a wonderful story! We’re very glad the science worked out, and even happier to have Prof. Prather as part of our department! 🧪🫧⚾️
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Sorting thru boxes of saved life memories…here is a letter that changed my life…from Nobel Laureate, Yuan T. Lee. Ultimately we met and I interviewed…we talked about our mutual love for science and baseball. As the story goes (which he now tells proudly), ultimately he hired me as a postdoc at UC Berkeley because he needed a second baseman for his research group’s softball team…the science worked out too in the end and he was the one who pressed me to become a professor (even though I didn’t think I wanted to be one). I guess he was right in the end…
Our final faculty talk at #ACSFall2026 is this morning!
Professor Nathan Romero will discuss NHC–PF5-functional polymers and non-fluorocarbon fluoropolymers at 8:50 AM CDT.
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Our faculty talks at #ACSFall2026 continue this afternoon with Professor Kamil Godula.
Join him at 2:05 PM CDT in N227a to hear about enamel-adhesive mucin mimetics and oral microbial homeostasis.
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Later today at #ACSFall2026, Professor Vicki Grassian will discuss interfacial environmental chemistry in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Join her at 4:00 PM CDT in N136.
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If you are attending #ACSFall2026 today, our faculty talks start with Professor Akif Tezcan, who will discuss the chemical and computational design of metalloenzymes.
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Also this afternoon at #ACSFall2026, Professor Nathan Romero will present on vinyl addition polymerization for frustrated Lewis pair-functional polymers.
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To close out today’s @UCSDChem talks at #ACSFall2026, Professor Francesco Paesani will discuss electrostatics, polarization, and ion specificity across phases from a data-driven many-body perspective.
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