Research team of Professor Chong Liu and UCLA postdoc alum Professor Nanette Boyle (CO School of Mines) receives $55K 2020 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award. Liu and Boyle received the award for their project titled “Solar-Augmented Direct Air Capture of Methane Using Methanotrophic Bacteria”. An assistant professor of inorganic chemistry since 2017, Liu holds the Jeffrey […]

Professor Neil Garg’s laboratory has been awarded a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35 Grant from the NIH/NIGMS. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded the laboratory of Professor Neil Garg $2.8 million dollars over five years to support his research focused on […]

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 […]