By Ben Paul, UCLA Division of Physical Sciences What are viruses, really? And where did they come from? UCLA’s Chemistry and Biochemistry department is pushing the boundaries of virology, and […]

On Tuesday, January 9th, members of the UCLA community gathered for a special lecture by Professor Miguel García-Garibay, Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences and Senior Dean of the […]

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Steven Clarke, was recently interviewed by UCLA biochemistry undergraduate student Jasmine Winter ‘26 for episode 41 of the ChemTalk podcast series “Let’s Talk Chemistry”.  […]

Professors Xiangfeng Duan and Paul S. Weiss have been elected as fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The academy’s fellowship honors inventors at academic institutions who have “demonstrated […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova wins supercomputer access for 2024 from the DOE Office of Science through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.  Only 75 of […]

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 […]