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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]