Professor Ohyun Kwon and her research group have developed a groundbreaking method which utilizes oxygen and copper to efficiently break carbon-carbon bonds in hydrocarbons and convert them into valuable amine […]

Professors Xiangfeng Duan, David Eisenberg, and Richard Kaner have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2023 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on […]

A team of researchers, led by Professor James Gimzewski and alumnus Dr. Adam Stieg (Ph.D. ’07 Gimzewski), has created an experimental computing system physically modeled after the biological brain, which […]

Professor Miguel García-Garibay, Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences, is the recipient of the 2023 Oesper Award presented by the University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Chemistry and the […]

Professor Danielle Schmitt and collaborator Professor Tara TeSlaa (UCLA Molecular and Medical Pharmacology) have been awarded $250,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to investigate why diets deficient in choline and […]

Adjunct professor of chemistry, longtime fire fighter, and UCLA alumnus Derek Urwin (B.S. ’03 Math, M.S. ’17, Ph.D. ’22 Chemistry, Alexandrova group) is featured in UC Newsroom article about UC-backed […]

Professor Sarah Tolbert is the Center Director of the new Center for Strain Optimization for Renewable Energy (STORE) at UCLA, which aims to make sodium ion batteries a marketable commodity.  […]

UCLA’s newest innovative organic chemist Professor Soumitra Athavale presented the 2023 John D. and Edith M. Roberts Lecture at UCLA on October 10.   Prior to joining the UCLA faculty as […]