News

August 02, 2024

Phoebe successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on August 2.  Congratulations Phoebe!

June 21, 2024

Osvaldo successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on June 21. Congratulations Osvaldo!

October 28, 2023

The Hayton group did the Lost Valley trail in the San Rafael Wilderness

September 11, 2023

Osvaldo's latest article featured on the cover of Organometallics!  Click here to see his cover art.

June 23, 2023

Miguel successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on June 23. 

May 13, 2023

Osvaldo awarded a UC President's Pre-Professoriate Fellowship

June 06, 2022

Both Gregg and Alex successfully defended their Ph.D. dissertations on June 6th.  

May 05, 2022

Osvaldo was awarded a Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship from UCSB.  Congratulations, Osvaldo!

July 22, 2021

Osvaldo wins a 2021 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Award.  Congratulations!

August 30, 2020

Selena awarded First Place in the 2020 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards.  Congratulations Selena!

July 13, 2020

Gregg and Selena's latest paper featured on front cover of Organometallics

January 22, 2020

The next SoCal Organometallics meeting has been set for Sunday March 15, 2020 at UCSB. Registration deadline is Monday, March 2, 2020.

July 05, 2019

Selena's thorium nitride paper chosen for the inside front cover of Chemical Science.  Congratulations Selena!

July 01, 2019

The Hayton group went camping to Bishop Creek in the Sierra Nevada.

May 03, 2019

Selena awarded a DOE SCGSR Fellowship.  Congratulations Selena!

April 12, 2019

Daniel Najera awarded a Soros Fellowships for New Americans

February 15, 2019

Trevor receives the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Humboldt Foundation.

February 10, 2019

Gregg and Alex present their research at SoCal Organometallics

November 27, 2018

Trevor was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

November 04, 2018

The group went camping to Davy Brown campground

June 15, 2018

Andrew awarded Sandra Lamb Memorial Award from the Department of Chemistry. Congratulations Andrew!

May 14, 2018

Andrew was awarded a Mellichamp Sustainability Summer Fellowship.

May 06, 2018

Mikiyas and Selena present their research at SoCal Organometallics

April 01, 2018

Next SCOM meeting set for May 6, 2018 at UCLA

March 28, 2018

Andrew attends 2018 UCCS Meeting at Lake Arrowhead, CA

March 22, 2018

Trevor attends ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA

December 12, 2017

Trevor gives talk at Science Pub Night in Goleta

November 04, 2017

Tracky presents a poster at the CCS Research and Creative Activities Conference

October 30, 2017

The group went sailing for the afternoon.

June 18, 2017

Trevor attends RERC 28 in Ames, Iowa

June 11, 2017

Nate and Andrew present their research at SoCal Organometallics.

May 23, 2017

Andrew was awarded a Mellichamp Sustainability Summer Fellowship.

April 29, 2017

The next SoCal Organometallics meeting is set for June 11 at UCSB. 

April 02, 2017

Andrew and Trevor attended the San Francisco ACS meeting.  Andrew presented his work on copper nanoclusters.

March 31, 2017

Trevor gave a talk at the Institute of Chemistry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City.

December 05, 2016

The new SoCal Organometallics website is up and running!

December 04, 2016

The group attended SoCal Organometallics at UCLA.

September 22, 2016

Congratulations to Bi on receiving the Broida-Hirschfelder Graduate Fellowship Award!

August 21, 2016

Bi attended the 252nd American Chemical Society National Meeting in Philadelphia.  She presented her research of copper hydride nanoclusters. 

June 01, 2016

Trevor attends Rare Earths 2016 in Japan

May 25, 2016

Bi awarded a Mellichamp Sustainability Summer Fellowship. Congratulations Bi!

April 23, 2016

The group attended SoCal Organometallics at UC Irvine.

March 13, 2016

Bi, Nate, and Danil attended the 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting in San Diego.

December 11, 2015

The group went ice skating and no one got hurt.

December 05, 2015

The group attended SoCal Organometallics at UC Riverside.

June 20, 2015

We went camping with the Diaconescu and Spokoyny groups to Huntington Lake.  See photos in the Media Gallery!

June 01, 2015

Danil was awarded a Graduate Division Dissertation Award, while Bi was awarded a Graduate Division Central Fellowship. Congratulations to Danil and Bi!

May 01, 2015

Danil was awarded a Seaborg Summer Research Fellowship. Congratulations Danil! He will be returning to the lab of Dr. Andrew Gaunt at Los Alamos National Laboratory over the summer, where he will continue to work on neptunium chemistry.

March 01, 2015

Trevor in Japan for two weeks giving talks. Thanks to Prof. Mashima at Osaka University for organizing the visit!

January 01, 2015

Trevor is on sabbatical in the Mazzanti group at EPFL for two months.

November 21, 2014

Group curling night. Seriously, we went curling.  It was fun, eh.  See photos in the Media Gallery!

September 15, 2014

Ed was awarded a PIRE-ECCI fellowship. Congratulations Ed! He will perform research in the lab of Dr. Yaofeng Chen at SIOC in April 2015.

September 14, 2014

Group hike to Santa Monica Mountains.  We did the Grotto Trail.

July 01, 2014

Danil was awarded a Seaborg Summer Research Fellowship. Congratulations Danil! He will perform transuranic research in the lab of Dr. Andrew Gaunt at Los Alamos National Laboratory over the summer.

January 24, 2014

Trevor gave the Dalton Transactions Lecture at UC Berkeley.