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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]