Graduate Student Voices in the News

5 years ago

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, […]

Graduate Student Voices in the News
January 21

François N. Diederich: Pioneer of Carbon Allotropes and Molecular Recognition

5 years ago

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 […]

François N. Diederich: Pioneer of Carbon Allotropes and Molecular Recognition
January 12

Zoom Background Competition

5 years ago

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 […]

Zoom Background Competition
January 7

What’s happening in breakout rooms during remote learning?

5 years ago

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 […]

What’s happening in breakout rooms during remote learning?
December 17

Dr. Eric Scerri’s Academic Influence interview

5 years ago

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 […]

Dr. Eric Scerri’s Academic Influence interview
December 17

2020 Novartis Early Career Award (NECA) in Organic Chemistry

5 years ago

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 […]

2020 Novartis Early Career Award (NECA) in Organic Chemistry
December 16

PNAS paper recognized as one of 10 big science stories

6 years ago

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 […]

PNAS paper recognized as one of 10 big science stories
December 15

Team led by Schwartz and Tolbert groups discovers new doped polymer system

6 years ago

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 […]

Team led by Schwartz and Tolbert groups discovers new doped polymer system
December 11