Events
Organic-Materials Chemistry Seminar
March 27, 2025
Jinbo Hu
Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC)
“TBA”
3 PM, Olah Library

Organic-Materials Chemistry Seminar
March 21, 2025
Petr Beier
Institute for Organic Chemistry & Biochemistry of the CAS”Fluorine, the Enabling Element in the Chemistry of Organic Azides and Triazoles”
12 noon, Olah Library

News
$15M gift from alumnus fuels sustainable energy research at USC Dornsife’s Loker Institute
The USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute will use the donation from chemists and entrepreneurs Massoud Arvanaghi ’82 and Ferial K. Arvanaghi to drive research aimed at building a more sustainable future and a healthier environment.

Chemist’s research advanced energy storage solutions and powered Mars rovers
Sri Narayan, professor of chemistry and scientific director of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, whose research transformed fuel cell, battery and sustainability technologies, died on May 24. He was 63.
