On Tuesday, September 24, EH&S will hold a “Meet and Greet” event for students, postdocs, and faculty of the department. Because laboratory safety is at its best when Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) officers and researchers work together, the goal of the event is for members of our labs to be able to meet and […]

Chemistry lecturer and author Dr Eric Scerri, an expert of the periodic table, was involved in the conversations about possible changes to the periodic table. Scerri, and some of his colleagues interested in the history of chemistry, recently held a symposium at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in order to celebrate the […]

Scientists from around the world attended the UCLA Research Showcase at the American Chemistry Society (ACS) National Meeting in San Diego on August 27.      The Research Showcase included a poster session presenting the work of 55 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, all of whom also either gave a talk […]

Professor Nancy Goroff, Stony Brook University, is hoping to be Congress’ first female scientist with a PhD.  An accomplished physical organic chemist, Stony Brook University professor and Department Chair, Goroff is taking an 18-month leave of absence to campaign full time. Goroff received a Ph.D. in chemistry at UCLA in 1994 under the direction of […]

Lisa Dreesens, who conducted research with the Gelbart/Knobler group in 2015, achieves her goal of swimming across the English Channel. Swimming the English Channel is a feat that 75% of those who try are not able to accomplish. Swimmers are not allowed to wear wetsuits which would normally provide protection. Even in good weather there are risks […]

Organic chemistry professor Ken Houk is co-author of a newly released textbook titled “Organic Chemistry: Theory, Reactivity and Mechanisms in Modern Synthesis”. Houk’s co-author is Professor Pierre Vogel of the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. The foreword for the book was written by Nobel Laureate Professor Robert Grubbs of the California Institute of Technology.  “Pierre and […]

Undergraduate summer researchers from SPUR ten-week programs presented their posters at the August 29, 2019 poster session at Ackerman Union. The poster session is the culminating experience for our ten-week student researchers in SPUR programs. Select photos can be viewed below and a photo gallery of additional photos can be viewed here. The students were from […]

Kaner lab members Dr Brian McVerry and PhD student Mackenzie Anderson led team developing technique that could improve many types of filtration processes. The technique, called Thin Film Lift-Off or T-FLO, makes better membranes that could improve seawater filtration, wastewater treatment and gas separation. In addition to conducting his postdoctoral research in Professor Richard Kaner’s […]