Researchers led by Professor Philippe Sautet have mapped out a promising method to improve the conversion of propane gas into propene, the world’s second most widely produced plastic precursor, after […]

Professor Heather Maynard, UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Professor in Polymer Science and associate director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA, has been awarded the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship. […]

Professor Anne Andrews is featured in a recent UCLA Newsroom article discussing how an unexpected career path led her to pioneer wearable technology that measures hormones and brain chemicals, culminating […]

Professor David Eisenberg has been awarded the 2026 Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, “for his discoveries of amyloid fibril structures of relevance for […]

A short video featuring Professor Paul Weiss giving a tour of his office for UCLA College’s “UCLA Office Hours” series has received hundreds of thousands of views and likes on […]

By Ben Paul, UCLA Division of Physical Sciences A growing culture of entrepreneurship is reshaping how UCLA chemists think about discovery, impact, and their role beyond the lab. When Mike […]

Department Chair Professor Alexander Spokoyny has been selected as a 2025 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in recognition of his distinguished contributions in main […]

A UCLA research team led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, with postdoctoral fellows Dr. Laiyuan Wan and Dr. Boxuan Zhou, has discovered a way to dramatically improve how electrical current enters […]