UC Santa Cruz - Chemistry Department

Out-of-the-box idea for fighting children’s cancers

Sgourakis Lab receives $1.9M/5 year NIH Outstanding Investigator Award to study Tcell signaling for immunotherapy

Prof. Ólöf Einarsdóttir selected to receive Women in Science & Engineering Award for her contributions to furthering diversity and inclusion in STEM

Prof. Ólöf Einarsdóttir has been selected to receive the 2017 Women in Science and Engineering Award for her contributions to furthering diversity and inclusion in the STEM fields on campus

Nanotechnology

Materials Science and Engineering Initiative focuses on sustainability

The science of water sustainability

Environmental toxicologist Peter Weiss-Penzias and researcher Sara Baguskas are featured in an Al Jazeera program on water sustainability

Meet the Researchers

UC Santa Cruz may not have a medical school, but its scientists are tackling some of the most challenging problems in cancer genomics, drug discovery, and basic cancer biology

Learning through the Mirror

Recent team effort led by Postdoc Chris Warner with the Raskatov lab illuminates an unprecedented cytotoxic intermediate that could help deepen our understanding of amyloid beta toxicity as it occurs in Alzheimer

3D printing to make ultrafast graphene supercapacitor

Printable, ultralight graphene aerogel opens the door to novel designs of highly efficient energy storage systems for smartphones and other devices

Chemistry Research

Closely interwoven with graduate and undergraduate education

Department Seminars

Invited speakers are widely recognized experts in their respective fields whose research programs have broad appeal to scientists working within and across chemical and biological subdisciplines, as well as and including dissertation, second year and special seminars.

Department News

September 6, 2017Sgourakis Lab receives $1.9M/5 year NIH Outstanding Investigator Award
August 10, 2017Biochemist Carrie Partch honored by the Biophysical Society
July 18, 2017UC Santa Cruz’s Seth Rubin gets cancer research grant

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