Professor Michael Jung and collaborators have discovered a new way to activate the stem cells in hair follicles that are responsible for hair growth. A leader in the field of […]

Professor Neil Garg has been named the next Chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry effective July 1, 2019. In his announcement of the appointment Dean of Physical […]

PhD student Ha Seong Kim and Professor Thomas Mason have substantially refined diffusing wave microrheology of highly scattering concentrated dispersions. When illuminated with white light, many soft materials, such as […]

Leading biophysicist and chemist Professor Ken Dill (Stony Brook University) gave the 2019 Daniel Kivelson Lecture on May 20, 2019. Professor Ken A. Dill is best known for his work […]

Professor Alex Levine (UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry, Physics & Astronomy, Biomathematics) presented the 12th annual Robert Scott lecture on May 13, 2019.   Levine completed his Ph.D. in physics at UCLA […]

Nine chemistry & biochemistry graduate student researchers receive the 2019-2020 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). The fellowship is intended to support doctoral students who are within one year […]

Professor Ric Kaner and researcher Dr Maher El-Kady discuss how graphene can revolutionize the automobile in Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World.  Kaner and El-Kady appear after the 46 minute […]

Graduate student Kevin Cheung recently represented UCLA at the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Graduate Student Recruiting Program.  A 5th year materials chemistry Ph.D. student in the labs […]