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🚨 We are hiring!

Together with the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, we are recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Structural Biochemistry.

Apply by Oct. 16 for full consideration:
👉 https://t.co/OeRRCXhMVZ

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Congratulations, Dr. Rashmi! 🎓

[Paesani Lab @PaesaniLab]

It’s our distinct pleasure to introduce Dr. Richa Rashmi, #PhD #17 from our lab! 🎓

Through #datadriven #manybody quantum simulations, Richa has helped explain what vibrational spectra tell us about water 🌊, ice 🧊, and aqueous interfaces. 🏄‍♀️

Along the way, she has been a wonderful mentor and collaborator, sharing her time and ideas and helping all of us grow as scientists and as people. 🫶 We are so grateful for everything she has contributed to our group! 🙌

We could not be prouder and look forward to seeing what she does next as she heads to @Columbia for her postdoc! 🚀

Congratulations, Richa! 🎉

#OnceAPirateAlwaysAPirate 🏴‍☠️

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[UC San Diego @UCSanDiego]

UC San Diego continues to rank among the best universities in the world. 🌎

We’re proud to rank No. 4 among U.S. public universities, No. 14 among all U.S. universities and No. 20 in the world in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities. 🔗 https://t.co/78vTaupg3d

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@PaesaniLab Congratulations, Dr. Agnew!

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Congratulations to Prof. Cliff Kubiak on the 2027 @AmerChemSociety Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry! 🎉

He is only the fourth person to win all three ACS awards in Inorganic Chemistry. 🙌

https://t.co/G74mV7UAH0

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[UCSD Chemistry @UCSDChem]

Our 2026 @AmerChemSociety Graduate Student honorees! 🎉

Sarah Ko (Griffith Lab): Leadership in Mentoring
Ian Leifer (Godula Lab): Leadership in Science Outreach and Engagement

https://t.co/IEh4o54XDq

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[UCSD Chemistry @UCSDChem]

🎉 Congratulations to Liya Bi of Prof. Shaowei Li’s group on receiving a 2026 Graduate Research Award from the American Vacuum Society for outstanding work in single-molecule spectroscopy and microscopy! ⚡️🔬

https://t.co/dlXvcBT9ei

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Great to see the @PaesaniLab in hackathon mode! 💻 Looking forward to exciting progress on molecular simulations. 🚀

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[Paesani Lab @PaesaniLab]

🖥️ Hackathon mode ON! 🖥️

👉 https://t.co/I3mU0cwsCQ

Ethan, Xuanyu, Xinmao, and Zitong are spending the week coding side by side with the @MikPavanello and @OAndreussi groups and the broader Quantum Multiscale community as part of our joint @NSF project.

Our group is currently working on #GPU acceleration of #MBX electrostatics and the integration of #MBX with the #ELECTRODE package in #LAMMPS. These developments will further expand the scope of #datadriven #manybody simulations, enabling realistic modeling of increasingly complex molecular systems and electrochemical interfaces. Stay tuned! 🏄‍♀️

#MBX resources:
✅ https://t.co/bVIx3HIxcB
✅ https://t.co/eY2zrSwbKd
✅ https://t.co/EFiOa7rtCh

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What a wonderful story! We’re very glad the science worked out, and even happier to have Prof. Prather as part of our department! 🧪🫧⚾️

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[Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. @kprather88]

Sorting thru boxes of saved life memories…here is a letter that changed my life…from Nobel Laureate, Yuan T. Lee. Ultimately we met and I interviewed…we talked about our mutual love for science and baseball. As the story goes (which he now tells proudly), ultimately he hired me as a postdoc at UC Berkeley because he needed a second baseman for his research group’s softball team…the science worked out too in the end and he was the one who pressed me to become a professor (even though I didn’t think I wanted to be one). I guess he was right in the end…

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Our final faculty talk at #ACSFall2026 is this morning!

Professor Nathan Romero will discuss NHC–PF5-functional polymers and non-fluorocarbon fluoropolymers at 8:50 AM CDT.

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Later today at #ACSFall2026, Professor Vicki Grassian will discuss interfacial environmental chemistry in the Earth’s atmosphere.

Join her at 4:00 PM CDT in N136.

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Our faculty talks at #ACSFall2026 continue this afternoon with Professor Kamil Godula.

Join him at 2:05 PM CDT in N227a to hear about enamel-adhesive mucin mimetics and oral microbial homeostasis.

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To close out today’s @UCSDChem talks at #ACSFall2026, Professor Francesco Paesani will discuss electrostatics, polarization, and ion specificity across phases from a data-driven many-body perspective.

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If you are attending #ACSFall2026 today, our faculty talks start with Professor Akif Tezcan, who will discuss the chemical and computational design of metalloenzymes.

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Also this afternoon at #ACSFall2026, Professor Nathan Romero will present on vinyl addition polymerization for frustrated Lewis pair-functional polymers.

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This afternoon at #ACSFall2026, Professor Haim Weizman will share lessons learned from implementing AI-driven safety training in the organic chemistry laboratory.

Join him at 2:30 PM CDT in N226.

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Our faculty talks at #ACSFall2026 start this morning with Professor Shaowei Li!

If you are at the @AmerChemSociety meeting, join him at 8:35 AM CDT in W184a for a look at new opportunities for bond-specific chemistry at the single-molecule level.

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Next up at #ACSFall2026, Professor Charles Perrin asks: “What do pre-meds (and biology majors) need to know of OChem?”

Join his digital session today at 10:25 AM CDT.

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If you are attending #ACSFall2026 this week, come hear our @UCSDChem faculty!

Our faculty are presenting talks spanning single-molecule chemistry, education, metalloenzymes, polymers, atmospheric and computational chemistry, and more.

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