KCET’s online magazine “Southland Sessions” and UCLA Arts “Works in Progress” podcast feature Professor Neil Garg and his passion for education.   The online article, by journalist and podcast host Avishay Artsy, is titled “Making Organic Chemistry and Scientific Literacy Approachable with UCLA Professor Neil Garg”.  Artsy currently works at the UCLA School of the Arts and […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group and UCLA collaborators devise an approach that could enable the development of programmable devices made of 2-D semiconductors.  A UCLA professor of chemistry since 2008, Duan has pioneered unconventional material integration approaches to functional heterostructures for electronic and energy devices. To learn more about Duan’s research, visit his group’s website.  From Tech […]

Professor Ellen Sletten is one of four young investigators selected for the 2020 International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) Young Chemical Biologist Award.  Since 2013, this international award has been given annually to young scientists who have made significant research and service contributions to chemical biology.  Sletten, the first UCLA faculty member to receive the award, […]

Article by Anastassia Alexandrova and Borna Zandkarimi (PhD ’20) is one of five top cited Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters catalysis papers. Their highly cited paper titled “Dynamics of Subnanometer Pt Clusters Can Break the Scaling Relationships in Catalysis” was published in the January 19, 2020 issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters .   […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Eric Scerri is ranked 2nd in all chemical influencers in the world over the last decade (2010-2020) by AcademicInfluence.com. According to the AcademicInfluence.com website, their team of academics and data scientists looked at influential chemists over the last decade to determine the most influential chemists today. Based on their ranking methodology, the individuals […]

Professor Patrick Harran’s group and collaborators have discovered how the marine natural product callyspongiolide kills cancer cells.  The discovery was the result of a collaboration between the Harran group and Professor Jared Rutter’s group at the University of Utah/HHMI and Professor Karlett Parra’s group at the University of New Mexico. They reported on their discovery […]

Xiangfeng Duan and co-authors develop electrode material that could enable construction of lithium-ion batteries with a high charging rate and storage capacity. A UCLA professor of chemistry since 2008, Duan has pioneered unconventional material integration approaches to functional heterostructures for electronic and energy devices. He is an Associate Editor for the journal  Nano Research .  In […]

Each year, Exploring Your Universe brings thousands of people to campus each year to learn about science – this year it will be virtually. On Sunday, Nov. 1, from noon to 5 p.m. Pacific time, visitors from all over the world can take part in guided, do-it-yourself science experiments while engaging with scientists on a […]