Alumnus Dr Kevin Cheung (PhD ’19, Andrews/P Weiss groups) is lead author of ACS Sensors cover article and profiled by the journal.  Cheung is lead author on a paper titled “Phenylalanine Monitoring via Aptamer-Field-Effect Transistor Sensors” which was the featured cover article of the December 27, 2019 issue of ACS Sensors. He was profiled in […]

Professor James Gimzewski & alum Adam Stieg (PhD ’07) are part of team that has taken a significant stride toward goal of creating thinking machines.  A distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, Gimzewski is a pioneer in the research of nanowire networks as a brain-inspired system. Stieg, a research scientist and an associate director of […]

To mark the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the periodic table, Eric Scerri’s book about the periodic table was featured in the New Yorker.   Chemistry lecturer and author Dr. Eric Scerri celebrates 20 years as a UCLA this year. His much cited 2007 book has become the definitive account of the development and significance […]

UCLA researchers and Ilhan Yavuz from Turkey, unraveled the surface defect-deactivation mechanism in perovskite solar cells using molecules found in tea, coffee and chocolate. The team’s investigation was reported in the December 20, 2019 issue of the journal Science.  Professor Ken Houk and graduate student Selbi Nuryyeva collaborated with Professor Yang Yang from the Department […]

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposum 16 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF). Professor Ken Houk’s group hosted the live virtual symposium on December 10, 2019, at UCLA in a conference room in the Molecular Sciences Building. The virtual symposium, projected on to a screen via YouTube, featured talks by Ruben Martin (Institute of […]

Professor Hosea Nelson has been awarded the 2020 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. The award for synthetic organic chemistry is bestowed annually by researchers at BMS, in consultation with leading organic chemists in academia. The award recognizes faculty in the early stages of their careers who have made a fundamental contribution to […]

Nanoscience pioneer Professor Paul Alivisatos (UC Berkeley) was awarded the 2019 Seaborg Medal in recognition of his seminal contributions to the field. A symposium titled “The Nanotechnology Revolution”, a poster session, and an evening banquet were held in Alivisatos’ honor on Saturday, November 23, 2019, on the UCLA campus.  A photo gallery from the event can […]

Professor Anne Andrews discusses her trajectory, conceptualizing neurochemistry, and identifying “moon-shots” in interview with “extremophile” Nik Hawks. In this hour-long podcast, which aired on October 24, 2019, Andrews and Hawks talk about her unconventional, multidisciplinary scientific training and how Andrews’ experiences, beginning in childhood, shaped her scientific path. Andrews intimates the use of conceptualization to understand […]