Group Activities
Group dinner in Bella Luna
Group dinner to celebrate Hanbo's PhD. (7/30/2024)
Group dinner in Turlock
Group dinner after Bowen's thesis defense (4/25/2023)
Zoom group meetings (WFH mode)
Work from home, and be more productive! (1/28/2021)
Arts and Computational Sciences (ACS)
This is where our offices locate 😎
Current group members
From left to right, Liang Shi, Bowen Han, Hanbo Hong, Yue Yu, Shao-Yu Lu (1/9/2020)
Barbeque on a typical CA day
Enjoy the beautiful California weather ☀️
News
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August 2024: Our SEED student, Daniel, received the Best Poster Award at the 2024 ACS Project SEED Symposium. Congratulations! Kudos to Gunnar for great mentoring!
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August 2024: Hanbo is joining Truman State University as a tenure-track assistant professor. Wish you all the best!
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July 2024: Hanbo successfully defended his PhD dissertation! Dr. Hong is the second PhD from the group.
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May 2024: Kat will be doing a summer internship with Dr. Britta Johnson at PNNL. Enjoy your time there!
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April 2024: Gunnar received 2024 CBC Summer Research fellowship!
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February 2024: Gunnar joins the group as a first-year graduate student. Welcome!
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July 2023: Bowen is joining the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) as a postdoc. Wish you all the best!
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May 2023: Matthew graduated with his bachelor's degree in Chemistry!
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May 2023: Hanbo received the AY 2022-2023 Outstanding Teaching Award from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry!
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April 2023: Bowen successfully defended his PhD dissertation! Dr. Han is the first PhD from the group.
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April 2023: Kat was selected to attend the 4th i-CoMSE Summer School this summer!
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March 2023: Kat received 2023 CBC Summer Research fellowship!
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February 2023: Kat joins the group as a first-year graduate student. Welcome!
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October 2022: Matthew is selected to participate in the Learning Aligned Employment Program (LAEP)!
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June 2022: Hanbo is teaching CHEM 2 as the instructor of record this summer!
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June 2022: Bowen received the Graduate Dean Dissertation Fellowship for Fall 2022!
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May 2022: Bowen is doing a summer internship at LANL!
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December 2021: Jacqueline graduated with her bachelor's degree in Chemistry!
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November 2021: Yue started her new position at UCM as our Senior Research Computing Facilitator!
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June 2021: Hanbo was selected as the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning (CETL) Teaching Fellow for Fall 2021!
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June 2021: Hanbo and Bowen were selected to attend the 2021 Telluride School on Theoretical Chemistry!
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June 2021: Hanbo was selected to attend the Excited States and Nonadiabatic Dynamics CyberTraining Workshop 2021!
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June 2021: Bowen received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award for his JCTC paper!
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May 2021: Hanbo received Graduate Division's 2020-2021 Outstanding Teaching Award!
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May 2021: Daniel and Gabriel graduated with their bachelor's degrees from UCM!
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April 2021: Jacqueline is selected to participate in the CAMP undergraduate research program!
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March 2021: Hanbo received 2021 CBC Summer Research fellowship!
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February 2021: Hanbo received the GSA travel award for cycle 02/2021~05/2021!
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November 2020: Jacqueline is selected to participate in a 2020-21 Student Success Internship project!
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September 2020: Bowen received the Southern California Edison Fellowship!
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July 2020: Hanbo and Bowen have passed their qualifying exams, becoming PhD candidates!
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May 2020: Daniel Benito Valenzuela Cahua will work on organic semicondcutors, Jacqueline Leon on proteins, and Gabriel Zepeda on electronic spectroscopy. Welcome!
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May 2020: Yue has been selected to attend the American Chemical Society’s 2020 Postdoc to Faculty (P2F) Workshop!
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May 2020: Wendy and Nhu successfully completed their B.S. in Chemistry!
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April 2020: Hanbo received 2020 CCB Summer Research fellowship!