Educational innovator Laurence Lavelle receives 2019-20 UCLA NSF Professional Development Award for successful student resources. In addition to teaching large diverse undergraduate chemistry courses, Lavelle conceptualized and developed Chemistry Community, a popular online forum and database for chemistry students, as well as a successful peer-learning program at UCLA which his undergraduate assistants thoroughly enjoy. Students […]

Research by Professor Richard Kaner’s group, published in Advanced Materials, is one of the top downloaded papers in journal’s recent publication history. Their paper titled “A Simple Route to Porous Graphene from Carbon Nanodots for Supercapacitor Applications” is among the top 10% most downloaded papers published in Advanced Materials, one of the top materials journals […]

Professor Neil Garg and former postdoc Evan Darzi report the key chemical discovery necessary for the creation of a small, electronic marijuana breathalyzer.  Professor Neil Garg is UCLA’s Kenneth N. Trueblood Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and department Chair. Lead author Dr. Evan Darzi, a former postdoctoral scholar in Garg’s laboratory, is currently a medicinal chemist at […]

Jim Gimzewski and alum Adam Stieg are part of team whose paper is #3 on Nature’s Scientific Reports top 100 downloaded physics papers published in 2019.  In the paper “Emergent dynamics of neuromorphic nanowire networks”, published on October 17, 2019, the international research team reported on their significant progress towards the goal of creating thinking […]

Professor Steven Clarke receives Pomona College’s prestigious 2020 Blaisdell Distinguished Alumni Award for carrying “the spirit of the College” into the world.  An authority on the biochemistry of the aging process and how protein modification can regulate biological function, Clarke earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and zoology from Pomona College in 1970. He went on […]

Undergraduate researchers Sasha Gill-Ljunghammer (Tolbert Group) and Hieu Nguyen (Torres group) have been selected as 2020-2021 Beckman Scholars.   The 2020-2021 Beckman Research Scholarship at UCLA is directed through the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and administered by the Undergraduate Research Center (URC)-Sciences. The scholarship is awarded to outstanding undergraduate researchers who are […]

Professors Kun Zhao (Tianjin U) and Tom Mason (UCLA) discover tetratic order in dense 2D systems of rotationally asymmetric hard kite particles. A former postdoctoral researcher in Professor Tom Mason’s UCLA lab, Professor Kun Zhao (pictured right) of Tianjin University China’s School of Chemical Engineering and Technology has led a collaborative research effort, launched initially with […]

Professor Alexander Spokoyny is among 14 honorees nationwide to receive a 2020 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. The unrestricted $100,000 award will support Spokoyny’s efforts to create hybrid materials and reagents featuring boron-rich clusters. A portion of this award will also support some of educational activities Spokoyny has been spearheading, including the development of a next […]