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Save the Date: Bunnett Symposium
The Bunnett lecture series is hosted annually by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in honor of Professor Emeritus Joseph Bunnett.
This year, the lecture features Prof. Roald Hoffmann and will be held online at 4:00 PM on April 22, 2022.
Mirror-image peptides form ‘rippled sheet’ structure predicted in 1953
A UCSC team obtained an x-ray ‘snapshot’ of a novel protein structure with potential applications in biomedicine and materials science
List of most highly cited researchers features 20 UCSC scientists and engineers
Chemistry and biochemistry professors Shaowei Chen and Yat Li, former chemistry graduate student Yichuan Ling, and astronomy and astrophysics scientists Jonathan Fortney, Garth Illingworth, and Rychard Bouwens were among the most cited researchers of 2021.