Essays by graduate students Arundhati Deshmukh and Xiaofei “Fay” Lin are featured in C&EN article about the chemistry graduate school experience. According to Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) editor Linda Wang, the magazine runs a new essay every month and welcomes submissions from all graduate students. Students can send an essay of roughly 250 words about […]

Retrospective by Professors Ken Houk and J Fraser Stoddart honors UCLA postdoc alum and former faculty member Professor François Diederich (ETH Zürich). Their article was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on December 21, 2020.  Houk is the Saul Winstein Distinguished Research Professor in Organic Chemistry at UCLA and Stoddart, who […]

To earn bonus points, undergraduate students in Teacher Scholar Instructor Dr Daniel Nasrallah’s Fall Chem 30BL class created clever Zoom background images. The students who created the six winning images below received five bonus points on the final exam for their imaginative creations. “We did not award 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes because we […]

Graduate student and LS 192 Teaching Assistant Dayanni Bhagwandin analyses the correlation between student engagement and camera usage in breakout rooms.  In the Fall quarter 2020, Bhagwandin served as the Teaching Assistant for LS 192 – Pedagogy Seminar for Learning Assistants (LAs). Her position required her to oversee the 200+ Learning Assistants as they moved […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Eric Scerri discusses how philosophy and chemistry combine in new Academic Influence video.  In November 2020, Scerri was ranked 2nd in all chemical influencers in the world over the last decade (2010-2020) by AcademicInfluence.com, which is a team of academics and data scientists who are working to provide “an objective, […]

Professor Hosea Nelson receives the 2020 Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry in recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements in academia.  As part of the award, which is focused on rewarding investigators within the first 10 years of their independent career, Nelson will receive an unrestricted research grant. He is the only recipient of […]

Professor Paul Weiss’ group’s research is included in the University of California’s “10 biggest (non-COVID) science stories you might have missed in 2020”. Chemistry graduate student Jason Belling is lead author and Professor Paul Weiss and Dr. Steven Jonas, a UCLA assistant professor in pediatrics, are co-senior authors on the recognized paper published in the […]

A collaboration between UCLA, University of Washington, and Beijing Institute of Technology discovers a doped polymer system that exclusively forms bipolarons. By Dr. Matthew Voss (Schwartz group) The groups of Professor Ben Schwartz and Professor Sarah Tolbert, using a polymer synthesized by Professor Sam Jenekhe’s Group at the University of Washington and some computational help […]