June 2024 Visting graduate student Katharina Eisenhardt, REU students Ariel Rodriguez-Gutierrez, Arielle Meloche and UC LEADS scholar Aarthika Nagarajan join us for the summer. Welcome!
March 2024 Graduate students Feven Gebresilassie and Partho Paul join the group. Welcome!
The Yang group goes on its annual retreat in Anza Borrego!
January 2024 Undergradaute researchers Amy Nam and Chris Margolis join the group. Welcome!
February 2023 First year graduate students Ciara Gillis, Ute Petri, Faith Flinkingshelt, and Claire Zimmerman and postdoctoral scholar Magy Mekhail join the group. Welcome!
Jenny becomes an Associate Editor at the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
REU students Markus Bergstrom and Jaclyn Zepeda and visiting graduate student Aneelman Brar (Findlater group, UC Merced) join us for the summer! Undergraduate researcher Matthew Wieske joins the group. Welcome!
April 2022 Postdoctoral scholar Dr. Ana Garcia joins the group. Welcome!
February 2022 First year graduate students Colleen Miller, Jared Stanley, and Elise Payong and postdoctoral scholar Dr. Kelsey Collins joins the group. Welcome!
March 5, 2020 Drew Cunningham successfully defends his doctoral thesis! Congrats! He will be starting a postdoctoral position with Prof. Alex Miller at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Winter 2020 Graduate students Alissa Matus, Amanda Kummeth, Clarabella Li, and Rakia Dhaoui and undergraduates Jarod Vaquilar and Jonathan Galicia join the group. Welcome!
December 13, 2019 Congrats to Dr. Caitlin Hanna for successfully defending her thesis. She is headed to a postdoctoral position with Prof. Sean Elliott at Boston University.
December 6, 2019 Congrats to Dr. Bianca Ceballos for successfully defending her thesis. She is headed to a postdoctoral position at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
November 22, 2019 Bianca wins Best Poster Award at the International Solar Fuels - Young meeting in Hiroshima, Japan. Congrats!
July 2019 Dr. Nadia Leonard joins the lab as a postdoctoral associate. Incoming first year students Clarabella Li and Amanda Kummeth also start for the summer in the Yang lab. Welcome to the group!
Jenny receives the UCI Academic Senate Early Career Research Award.
June 7, 2019 Undergraduate awards! Kevin Kang receives the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award! Nehal Idris receives the UCI Pitts Undergraduate Award!
Undergraduate Zaira Barrera joins the lab. Welcome to the group!
May 2019 Lots of good news this month! Congrats to Dr. Zachary Thammavongsy for successfully defending his doctoral thesis. Ph.D. #3 from the Yang group will be starting a teaching & research postdoctoral position at Chapman University.
Graduate student Bianca Ceballos receives a Faculty Endowed Fellowship.
Jenny receives the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research. Jenny also receives the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award! Thank you to the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for supporting our efforts in teaching and research!
April 9, 2019 Congrats to Dr. Brian Lydon for successfully defending his doctoral thesis! Ph.D. #2 from the Yang group will be headed to a job at Intel.
Undergraduate Norman Soto joins the lab. Welcome to the group!
Undergraduate Andrew Luu is awarded the prestigious Department of Energy Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) to spend this summer at the National Energy Technology Laboratory! Congrats!
January 4 - 6, 2019 Despite a little rain, the 3rd annual Yang group in Borrego Springs is a success! Great science discussion and hiking in the desert!
January 1, 2019 Jenny starts a two year term on the Editorial Advisory Board of the ACS journal Inorganic Chemistry.
December 4, 2018 Graduate students Ian Mercer, Megan Screen, and Allie Zito join the lab. Welcome to the group!
Sept 6, 2018 Caitlin is awarded an AVS Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Travel Grant to attend the American Vacuum Society 65th International Symposium in October.
August 30, 2018 Caitlin Hanna and Drew Cunningham were both selected for U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) awards. As part of their awards, Caitlin will be spending 6 months at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory with Dr. Nathan Neale and Drew will be spending 3 months at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with Dr. John Linehan.
July 22, 2018 Undergraduate student Natty was awarded #2 Judges Choice Award and #3 BUZZ Award in the UCI UROP Video Challenge! Check out her video here.
July 10, 2018 Franklin & Marshall College undergraduate Han Le starts working with the lab for the summer. Welcome to the group! June 18, 2018 Graduate student Bianca is featured for the student spotlight in UCI School of Physical Science. You can read the article here.
May 23, 2018 Graduate student Zach is awarded Most Promising Future Chemistry Teacher by the department.
Graduate student Alex was awarded the Departmental Award for Service for his efforts in improving safety culture and standards. Congrats!
May 21, 2018 UC Berkeley undergraduate Jessica Mendoza starts working with the lab for the summer. Welcome to the group!
Graduate student Caitlin was accepted to attend the Next Generation Electrochemistry (NGenE) workshop in Chicago! Congrats!
May 15, 2018 Graduate student Bianca was accepted to the NSF GROW program and will be spending the Fall in Professor Marc Robert's Laboratory at the University of Paris Diderot!
Undergraduate researcher Nehal Idris was selected to be an ACS Scholar! Congrats!
April 4, 2018 Graduate student Bianca receives the inaugural School of Physical Sciences Latino Excellence Award!
Graduate student Zach is selected for UCI's 2017-2018 Most Promising Future Faculty Award!
Undergraduate student Wyeth receives an NSF GRFP Honorable Mention and the Undergraduate Chemistry Award from the Orange County Chapter of the American Chemical Society.
April 2, 2018 Undergraduate researchers Andrew Luu and Reyna Velazquez join the lab. Welcome to the group!
February 20, 2018 The Yang group is going international! Undergraduate researcher Natwara is awarded a RISE fellowship to perform research at the University of Munster in Germany this summer.
Undergraduates Samantha Ruelas graduates with Phi Lambda Upsilon and Rebecca Combs with Magna Cum Laude, Honors in Chemistry, and Phi Lambda Upsilon. Samantha will be headed to U of Oregon, and Rebecca to the U of Minnesota for their graduate studies. Congrats!
June 9, 2017 Wyeth Gibson receives the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award and the undergraduate Gebel Award. Congrats!
Undergraduates Hazel Nguyen and Kevin Kang join the lab. Welcome to the group!
May 24, 2017 Zach wins the award for "Outstanding Contributions to the Chemistry Department" and Alex is named a Safety Fellow. Congrats!
UC Berkeley undergraduate Nicole Katzaroff joins us for the summer. Welcome to the group!
December 10-12, 2016 First Yang Group science-and-hiking retreat at the Anza-Borrega Desert Research Center is a success! December 1, 2016 First year graduate student Jeff Barlow joins the lab. Welcome to the group!
November 21, 2016 Juliet ("call me Dr") Khosrowabadi Kotyk successfully defends her thesis and completes the first Ph.D. from the Yang lab! She will be starting her next adventure at Catalytic Innovations. Congrats!
November 3, 2016 Qilong Sun, a visiting graduate student from East China Normal University, joins the lab. Welcome to the group!
November 18, 2016 Bianca Ceballos and Alex Reath advance to candidacy! Congrats!
October 14, 2016 Samantha Ruelas wins the Poster Competition at the 2016 SACNAS Conference. As part of her award, she also receives a travel grant to attend the Fall 2017 ACS National meeting! Congrats!
June 13, 2016 Undergraduates Rebecca Combs, Ivy Kha, and Samantha Ruelas receive Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Fellowships. Congrats!
June 3, 2016 Rebecca Combs receives the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award and Samantha Ruelas receives the undergraduate Gebel Award. Congrats!
June 1, 2016 Juliet Khosrowabadi Kotyk is honored with a TA Award and Zachary Thammavongsy receives a graduate Gebel Award. Congrats!
May 26, 2016 Graduate student Drew Cunningham joins the lab. Welcome to the group!
March 9, 2016 Brian Lydon's paper is in press in the journal Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers. Check it out here! It will be published in the "2016 Emerging Investigators" issue.
March 3, 2016 Jenny is selected to give a poster talk at the Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels Gordon Research Conference.
February 24, 2016 Zachary Thammavongsy's paper is in press in the journal Dalton Transactions. Check it out here! It will be published in the "New Talent: Americas" issue.
February 1, 2016 Juliet Khosrowabadi Kotyk's paper is in press in the Journal of Coordination Chemistry. Check it out here! It will be published in the "Emerging Leaders" issue.
December 23, 2015 Jenny receives an NSF CAREER award! Thank you to the NSF for your support!
December 8, 2015 First year graduate student Caitlin Hanna joins the lab. Welcome to the group!
November 9, 2015 Zachary Thammavongsy's paper is in press in the journal Inorganic Chemistry. Check it out here!
November 3, 2015 Jenny is named a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Environmental Chemistry Mentor. Applications for the postdoctoral fellowship position in "Electrochemical Capture and Concentration of Carbon Dioxide" are currently being accepted. Thank you to the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation for your support!
November 2, 2015 Charlene Tsay's paper is in press in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Check it out here!
September 14, 2015 Postdoctoral Associate Annie Chantarojsiri joins the lab. Welcome to the group!
July 17, 2015 Jenny is named a 2015 Hellman Faculty Fellow! Thank you to the Hellman Fellows fund for your support!
July 13, 2015 Undergraduate Rebecca Combs joins the lab. Welcome to the group!
June 22, 2015 Undergraduates Samantha Ruelas and Ivy Kha join the lab. Welcome to the group!
May 15, 2015 Stephen Denghausen will graduate with Phi Lambda Upsilon, Honors in Chemistry, Campuswide Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, and Cum Laude.
Brooke Livesay will graduate with the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Award.
Congrats Stephen and Brooke!
April 5, 2015 Undergraduate Hannah Bui joins the lab. Welcome to the group!
March 16, 2014 Jenny gives invited talk at the "Catalysis Science: The Next Generation" symposium at the Dallas ACS meeting: "Utilizing Thermodynamic Considerations in the Design of Molecular Transition Metal Catalysts for Hydrogenation Activity and Aqueous Hydrogen Production".
March 13, 2014 Jenny interviewed for UCI News article and video "Stamping Out STEM Stereotypes" (featuring some group member cameos).
January 5, 2014 Jenny gives invited talk at the 23rd Western Photosynthesis Conference: "Synthetic Heterobimetallic Complexes as Functional Analogues for CO Dehydrogenase".
December 11, 2013 First year graduate students Brian Lydon, Steve Poteet, Jake Ritter, Zach Thammavongsy, and undergraduate Brooke Livesay join the lab. Welcome to the group!
November 26, 2013 Solvent system up and running, thanks Jorg!
September 23, 2013 Undergraduates Tu Nguyen and Joanne Yoo join the lab. Welcome to the group!
August 19, 2013 After some precarious forklifting, our new gloveboxes are here!
July 25, 2013 Jenny gives invited talk at 2013 CENTC Summer School on Catalysis: Enabling Sustainability and Innovation through Catalysis.
July 15, 2013 Yang lab open-house shows off our newly renovated labs (and our baking skills). Afterwards, we get down to business with the lab's very first reactions.
July 1, 2013 Yang Group officially kicks off with Professor Jenny Yang, postdocs David Shaffer and Charlene Tsay, graduate student Juliet Khosrowabadi, and summer student Steven Poteet. Come visit us at 3021A Frederick Reines Hall!