July, 2008
Selina gives an invited talk at National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan on her many research projects.
July, 2008
Matt presents a poster on his "transition state complexation" work at the Gordon Research Conference on Organometallic Chemistry in Rhode Island.
July, 2008
Chris returns to the East.
June, 2008
Phil joins the group.
June, 2008
Chris presents a poster and gives a talk on his research at the 32nd Reaction Mechanisms Conference in North Carolina.
March, 2008
Dan presents a poster describing his research on noncovalent interactions in terpene biosynthesis at UCD's 2008 R. B Miller Symposium, for which Dean is a co-organizer.
January, 2008
Chris, our visiting scholar, arrives for a six month stay.
December, 2007
Dustin files his dissertation!
October, 2007
Dan presents a poster describing his research on taxol biosynthesis at the 41st Western Regional Meeting of the ACS in San Diego.
August, 2007
Christine joins the group.
June, 2007
Selina presents a poster describing her research on metal-promoted pericyclic reactions at the 40th National Organic Symposium at Duke University.
June, 2007
Mike's outstanding teaching is recognized through a departmental teaching award.
June, 2007
Greg wins UCD's prestigious "Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research".
May, 2007
Victor joins the group.
May, 2007
Greg presents a lecture on his research at UCD's first Richard C. Larock Symposium on Undergraduate Research.
April, 2007
Dean wins the 2007 Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry Award for Early Excellence in the Field of Physical Organic Chemistry.
April, 2007
Greg presents a poster and a lecture on his research at, respectively, the National Undergraduate Research Conference and UCD's 18th Annual Conference on Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities.
March, 2007
Selina wins the 2007 "R. B. Miller Fellowship for Excellence in Chemistry", and the award is presented at the 2007 R. B. Miller Symposium, for which Dean is a co-organizer. This year's keynote speaker was Ron Breslow (front row with Francesca Miller; back row: Jackie Gervay-Hague, Sundeep Dugar, Arthur Wellman, Keith Woerpel, Winston Ko, Dean, Neil Schore, Carlos Guiterrez, Cheryl Grice, David Floyd, Xi Chen, Dinesh Patel).
January, 2007
Rebecca officially joins the group.
October, 2006
Melissa joins the group.
September, 2006
Selina, Dustin, Mike, Dan, Greg, Matt, and Young all present posters at the ACS national meeting in San Francisco.
Here they pose with Dean's graduate advisor, Ken Houk...
July, 2006
Rebecca Davis joins the group for the summer as part of the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program.
April, 2006
Greg presents a talk describing his research at UCD's 17th Annual Conference on Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities.
March, 2006
Dan sets up our new webserver and our webspace becomes "blueline.ucdavis.edu".
March, 2006
Dean (yes, he's the short one) participates in the R. B. Miller Symposium, at which UCD launches a new pharmaceutical chemistry program.
February, 2006
Selina and Dustin present posters describing their research as part of the Chemistry Department's annual Bradford Borge Weekend festivities.
January, 2006
Matt and Mike join the group.
September, 2005
Greenline, Redline, and Blueline are condensed into a single cluster called Redline.
September, 2005
Young joins the group.
July, 2005
Redline gets a new buddy called Blueline.
July, 2005
Selina makes semibullvalene - the first molecule synthesized in our labs and a physical organic classic!
June, 2005
Selina presents a poster describing her research at the 39th National Organic Symposium in Salt Lake City, UT (hey, is Dean wearing that same shirt again?).
June, 2005
Greg receives a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.
April, 2005
Ying and Greg present a poster and talk, respectively, describing their research at UCD's 16th Annual Conference on Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities.
February, 2005
Selina presents a poster describing her research as part of the Chemistry Department's annual Bradford Borge Weekend festivities.
January, 2005
Dan joins the group.
July, 2004
June, 2004
Dustin's outstanding teaching is recognized through a departmental teaching award.
April, 2004
Greg joins the group.
April, 2004
Pradeep and Dustin bring our second linux cluster - called "redline" - to life.
December, 2003
Dustin, Selina, and Rachael join the group.
November, 2003
Thanks to Pradeep's hard work and expertise, our linux cluster - called "greenline" - is up and running.
October, 2003
Mihaela and Pradeep arrive, leaving behind the snow of Ithaca as Dean did before them.
July, 2003
Dean is in Davis and has started to get things set up.
