Pierce College professor Benny Ng (BS ’03, MS ’09, PhD ’10 Tolbert group) features rapper Snoop Dogg in viral video encouraging students to read class syllabus. The video has racked up over 10 million views and was featured on the celebrity gossip website TMZ. Dr. Benny Ng is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Los Angeles […]

Graduate student Mackenzie Anderson ‘17 (Kaner group) is selected for prestigious 2020 NWRI-SCSC Fellowship. Anderson was selected for the Fellowship to support her graduate research project “Toward Deterministic Membrane Design Using Thin-Film Liftoff.”  The Fellowship carries with it an award of $10,000.  Anderson is conducting research in Professor Richard Kaner‘s laboratory where she is studying novel chemically […]

The Tang, Garg, and Houk research groups have discovered nature’s natural protein catalysts (enzymes) that catalyze the Alder-ene reaction. All groups are part of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Professor Yi Tang is the Chancellor Professor at the UCLA Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and also holds a joint appointment in the Department […]

BMSB graduate students Janine Fu, Calina Glynn, and Jiahui Lu have been selected as 2020-21 Audree Fowler Fellows in Protein Science. Each Fellow will present a talk at the Audree V. Fowler Fellowships in Protein Science Special Seminar on Tuesday, October 6, 2020 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 p.m. Click here for Zoom details. In 2008, an […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been elected a 2020 Fellow of the American Physical Society. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): Chemist Richard Kaner elected a 2020 Fellow of the American Physical Society Richard Kaner, who holds UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation, has been elected a 2020 Fellow of the American […]

We are sad to report that UCLA postdoc alum and former faculty member Professor François Diederich (ETH Zürich) passed away on September 23.  A well-known organic chemist, with research interests including molecular recognition in chemistry and biology, modern medicinal chemistry, supramolecular nanosystems, and carbon-rich materials, Diederich will be remembered throughout the scientific community as dedicated mentor […]

Graduate student Chuanzhen Zhao (P Weiss/A Andrews groups) receives the prestigious Dimitris N Chorafas Foundation Award.  Zhao, who works with Professors Paul S. Weiss and Anne M. Andrews in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Department of Psychiatry, received the award for his work “Scalable Nanomanufacturing Techniques and Their Applications in Biomedicine: From Chemical Patterning to Implantable […]

Harran and Houk groups create computer software that predicts structure and three-dimensional conformations of products made from synthetic reaction sequences.   The Composite Peptide Macrocycle Strategy, used to make the synthetic reaction sequences, was perfected in Professor Patrick Harran’s lab. Professor Ken Houk’s group worked with Harran’s group to create the software.  The UCLA Team – […]