http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/ OpenACS News OpenACS 5.0 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:11:40 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//rss-support/images/openacs_logo_rss.gif http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/ 126 48 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=69123 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=69123 Click Here to Visit the Seaborg symposium website. [1] [1] http://seaborg.ucla.edu/ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:11:40 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=69928 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=69928 The Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Sylvia Winstein was held at the Faculty Center on Friday, October 23. Several of our faculty and others from the University, including Chancellor Emeritus Charles Young, talked about Sylvia and her impact on UCLA. The Winstein family, including Carolee, Prof. of Kinesiology at USC, and Bruce, Prof. of Physics at Chicago, also participated, and Del Venerable played the piano with flutist Allison Winstein, Sylvia's granddaughter. It was a wonderful event for someone who did a great deal for the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sylvia Winstein Memorial Program [1] Sylvia Winstein Obituary [2] [1] http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/SylviaMemorial.htm [2] http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/SylviaWinsteinObituary.htm Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:07:36 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=68917 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=68917 To register for the Symposium & Medal Award dinner or for more information visit www.seaborg.ucla.edu [1]. [1] http://www.seaborg.ucla.edu Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:05:23 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=63313 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=63313 Dr. Torres received his B.S. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1998, where he conducted research under the mentorship of Dr. Eduardo Orias. He obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University in 2004 under the direction of Dr. Virginia A. Zakian. He conducted his postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Peter K. Jackson at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Genentech Inc. until 2009 when he joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA. For more information about Dr. Torres see his home page [1]. [1] http://faculty.chemistry.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id=916925 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:34:39 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=63302 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=63302 Internationally renowned scientist Paul Weiss has joined the Physical Chemistry division in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. In addition, Paul has been named the new director of the California NanoSystems Institute. For more information see the UCLA Newsroom article [1]. [1] http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-s-california-nanosystems-98183.aspx Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:33:51 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=61363 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=61363 Dr. Alexandrova obtained a B.S./M.S. Diploma in chemistry from Saratov University, Russia. Then, she briefly was a researcher at Vernadskii Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia. She obtained her Ph.D. in theoretical physical chemistry from Utah State University, with Professor Alexander Boldyrev. Her doctoral work was on novel small inorganic clusters and development of general theory of chemical bonding. She was a Postdoctoral Associate in computational biochemistry at Yale University, with Professor William Jorgensen, and then an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow in biophysics with Professor John Tully, also at Yale. She joined the UCLA faculty in 2009. The focus of her laboratory is computational and theoretical design and multi-scale description of new materials. For more information about Dr. Alexandrova see this page [1]. [1] http://faculty.chemistry.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id=945688 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:22:53 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=61158 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=61158 Ken Houk is named one of the ACS 2010 National Award winners. See August 24, 2009 C&EN issue [1] for more information. For additional information on the Arthur C. Cope Award see this ACS page [2]. Congratulations Ken! [1] http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/87/i34/html/8734awards1.html [2] http://organicdivision.org/cope_award.html Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:42:19 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=61153 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=61153 Joan Valentine is among the 2010 ACS National Award winners. See August 24, 2009 C&EN issue [1] for more information. For additional information on the Alfred Bader Award see this ACS page [2]. Congratulations Joan! [1] http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/87/i34/html/8734awards1.html [2] http://portal.acs.org:80/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=1319&content_id=CTP_004490&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=88ede23a-8eea-4122-841c-f111d393aae Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:36:31 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=59230 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=59230 Herb and Ken will be honored at the next ACS meeting in Washington D.C. as part of the inaugural class of ACS Fellows. For more information see C & E News article [1]. Congratulations Herb and Ken! [1] http://pubs.acs.org/cen/acsnews/87/8730acs.html Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:29:10 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=59225 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=59225 UCLA Chancellor Gene Block has named Kendall N. Houk to the Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry, Omar M. Yaghi to the Irving and Jean Stone Chair in Physical Sciences, and Shimon Weiss to the Dean M. Willard Chair in Chemistry. For more information see UCLA Newsroom article [1]. Congratulations Ken, Omar, and Shimon! [1] http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-appoints-three-of-world-s-97237.aspx Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:13:25 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=57401 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=57401 The 107th Faculty Research Lecturer is Professor Steven Clarke. His lecture will be this Fall. Professor Clarke is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, an authority on the biochemistry of the aging process and natural repair mechanisms. He is also Director of the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute. Clarke studied at Pomona College and Harvard University, then was a Miller Fellow at Berkeley, before joining the faculty at UCLA in 1978. His research at UCLA explores the roles of novel protein methyltransferases in aging and biological regulation. In fact, he has discovered several important methyl transferases, which are enzymes that attach methyl groups to proteins. He also showed the chemical reactions that produce age-damaged proteins and how cellular enzymes can reverse at least some portion of the damage. In the last few years, the lab has taken a genetic approach, exploring what happens when repair pathways are eliminated in a variety of organisms. They have developed methods to analyze genomic sequences to identify new members of the methyltransferase family. The first fruits of this work have been the identification of small molecule repair enzymes. Clarke's lab has recently identified the last missing link in the pathway for synthesis of plant ascorbate, or Vitamin C, from glucose. The discovery could lead to crops with enhanced vitamin C production that would be more nutritious and more resistant to environmental damage. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:46:01 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=57101 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=57101 ***The UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Commencement Ceremony will be: *Saturday, June 13, 2009 Reception at 4:00 pm Ceremony at 5:00 pm Court of Sciences * Fall 2008 and Winter 2009 degree recipients, Spring and Summer 2009 degree candidates, Faculty, Family, and Friends are cordially invited to attend! For more information see Commencement Page [1] [1] /pages/ugrad/commencement Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:08:45 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=57020 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=57020 The UCLA Committee on Teaching has selected Yung-Ya Lin as one of the (only six) campus-wide Senate faculty recipients of the 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award. This is a great honor, and one which brings further recognition to the Department's commitment to excellence in teaching. Yung-Ya will receive his award at the annual Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching in the fall. Congratulations, Yung-Ya, on this outstanding achievement and well-deserved award! Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:19:24 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=56578 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=56578 UCLA Committee on Teaching has selected Laurence Lavelle as one of only three campus-wide Non-Senate faculty recipients of the 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award. This is a much coveted and hard-to-win prize. By being honored with this award, Laurence joins a very select group of outstanding and dedicated teachers from UCLA and the Department. Laurence will receive his award at the annual Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching in the fall. *Congratulations Laurence!* Tue, 26 May 2009 22:29:59 GMT http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=56293 http://www.chemistry.ucla.edu//news/item?item%5fid=56293 Jim Gimzewski has just been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, which is the UK's equivalent of the National Academy of Sciences. The Royal Society was founded in the 1600's and is the world's oldest scientific society in continuous existence. The citation from the Royal Society reads: "Jim Gimzewski has pioneered the use of the scanning tunnelling microscope to image, characterise and manipulate molecules on surfaces. His insights into the fundamental properties of single molecules, and his visionary experimental methods have made fundamental changes in the way chemistry at the single-molecules level is perceived. His enthusiastic and innovative way in which he communicates his science has been universally recognized." The Society's web site including a list of all 44 newly elected fellows can be found at: www.royalsociety.org [1] *Congratulations Jim!!!* [1] http://www.royalsociety.org/ Mon, 18 May 2009 21:27:01 GMT