Justin Caram receives $1.3M Moore Foundation Award

10 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Justin Caram has been selected by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as a member of the 2025 cohort of Experimental Physics Investigators. He joins 22 other mid-career researchers […]

Justin Caram receives $1.3M Moore Foundation Award
October 9

Omar Yaghi wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry

10 months ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Omar M. Yaghi, a former professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA who is currently the James and Neeltje Tretter Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, has been awarded the […]

Omar Yaghi wins 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry
October 8

New stretchable light-emitting material holds promise for photon-based devices

10 months ago

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Professor Xiangfeng Duan and graduate student Boxuan Zhou (Materials Science and Engineering) lead a research team that has developed a durable, low-cost, printable light-emitting membrane from ultrathin molybdenum disulfide and […]

New stretchable light-emitting material holds promise for photon-based devices
September 26

Jose Rodriguez receives inaugural UCLA Academic Senate Service Rising Star Award

10 months ago

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  • Faculty

Professor Jose Rodriguez is one of two UCLA faculty members selected for the inaugural 2024–25 UCLA Academic Senate Service Rising Star Award. The award recognizes his service on the Graduate […]

Jose Rodriguez receives inaugural UCLA Academic Senate Service Rising Star Award
September 24

Frank Ow inspires future scientists through UCLA’s COSMOS Program

11 months ago

  • Education
  • Faculty

This summer, instructor Dr. Frank Ow taught chemistry to high school students through the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) at UCLA program. Established by the California […]

Frank Ow inspires future scientists through UCLA’s COSMOS Program
September 3

Neil Garg featured in Caltech Heritage Project

11 months ago

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  • Faculty

Distinguished Kenneth N. Trueblood Professor Neil Garg was recently interviewed for the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Heritage Project. According to the Caltech website, the Caltech Heritage Project “captures, conveys, […]

Neil Garg featured in Caltech Heritage Project
September 2

UCLA spinout Entropic Biosciences awarded $200K for high-throughput 3D skin model project

11 months ago

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Entropic Biosciences, Inc., a start-up biotech company founded at UCLA in Professor Paul Weiss’ group based on the thesis of alumnus Dr. Amir Nasajpour (Ph.D. ’23), is one of only […]

UCLA spinout Entropic Biosciences awarded $200K for high-throughput 3D skin model project
August 25

BioPACIFIC MIP earns renewed NSF support to accelerate AI-driven biobased materials innovation

11 months ago

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  • Faculty
  • Research

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has given $19.8 million in renewal funding for the BioPACIFIC MIP, a UCLA–UC Santa Barbara collaboration advancing biobased materials through synthetic biology, chemistry, automation, and […]

BioPACIFIC MIP earns renewed NSF support to accelerate AI-driven biobased materials innovation
August 20