Graduate students Musibau Francis Jimoh (Kaner lab) and Rachel Knapp (Garg lab) are featured in video with alum Dr Jeffrey Vinokur (PhD ’17 Bowie lab). Jimoh and Knapp are interviewed […]

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation selects Professor Keriann Backus as one of 20 recipients of the 2020 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering.   In being selected as one of […]

Technology created by Professor Sri Kosuri’s UCLA-founded startup company Octant leads to the development of a faster and cheaper COVID-19 testing technique. Kosuri, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, […]

Professor Juli Feigon discusses her telomerase research with science journalist Robyn Williams on “The Science Show”.  The Australian Broadcasting Corp’s award winning “The Science Show” is considered by many to […]

Pierce College professor Benny Ng (BS ’03, MS ’09, PhD ’10 Tolbert group) features rapper Snoop Dogg in viral video encouraging students to read class syllabus. The video has racked […]

Graduate student Mackenzie Anderson ‘17 (Kaner group) is selected for prestigious 2020 NWRI-SCSC Fellowship. Anderson was selected for the Fellowship to support her graduate research project “Toward Deterministic Membrane Design […]

We are sad to report that UCLA postdoc alum and former faculty member Professor François Diederich (ETH Zürich) passed away on September 23.  A well-known organic chemist, with research interests including […]

Harran and Houk groups create computer software that predicts structure and three-dimensional conformations of products made from synthetic reaction sequences.   The Composite Peptide Macrocycle Strategy, used to make the synthetic […]