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 […]

Graduate students Claire Dickerson (Alexandrova lab) and Ashley Shin (Caram lab) receive Center for Quantum Science & Engineering graduate fellowships. They are among four UCLA students to receive the new fellowships, which help support graduate appointments for the academic year 2020-2021.  The interdisciplinary Center for Quantum Science and Engineering (CQSE) at UCLA was established in 2018 by […]

For a second year, Professor Joseph Loo has been named as one of the world’s leading analytical chemists by The Analytical Scientist magazine. Loo appears in The Power List 2020, which features 60 scientists, nominated by their peers and selected by a judging panel, and celebrates achievement in analytical chemistry across the globe. He was […]

Ellen Sletten’s group, in collaboration with scientists in Germany, develops new imaging probes and technologies to allow for real-time multicolor imaging.  These combined technological advances provide simultaneous visualization of multiple biological structures in different colors at video speeds and has promise for applications in non-invasive and intraoperative diagnostics. Professor Ellen Sletten (pictured above) joined the faculty […]

Graduate students Musibau Francis Jimoh (Kaner lab) and Rachel Knapp (Garg lab) are featured in video with alum Dr Jeffrey Vinokur (PhD ’17 Bowie lab). Jimoh and Knapp are interviewed about their research in the latest episode of Vinokur’s educational streaming platform for K-8 schools, Generation Genius. The episode titled “How to be a Scientist […]

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation selects Professor Keriann Backus as one of 20 recipients of the 2020 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering.   In being selected as one of the nation’s most innovative early-career scientists and engineers, each Fellow will receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research. Packard fellowships enable the nation’s […]

Technology created by Professor Sri Kosuri’s UCLA-founded startup company Octant leads to the development of a faster and cheaper COVID-19 testing technique. Kosuri, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, is co-founder and CEO of Octant, which created the technology on which the testing technique, called SwabSeq, is based. He was recently interviewed on Fox Business […]

Professor Hosea Nelson has been named as a recipient of the prestigious 2020 Eli Lilly Grantee Award for Organic Chemistry.  The Eli Lilly Grantee program was established in 1965 to support emerging young leaders in organic chemistry and is the longest running grant program in the pharmaceutical industry. The award comes with a two-year, $100,000 […]