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 concentrated emulsions and latex paint, have a white appearance because these materials multiply scatter visible light. A light scattering technique, known as diffusing wave spectroscopy […]

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 on folding pathways of proteins.He is the Director of the Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology at Stony Brook University, where […]

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 in 1996 after receiving undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics. Following postdocs at Exxon Research & Engineering, UPENN, and UCSB, he joined the physics department […]

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 of completing and filing their dissertation. It includes a $20,000 stipend plus standard tuition and fees (excluding nonresident tuition). Each year, approximately 200 Dissertation 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 mark in episode four, “The Car”, which aired on May 8, 2019. View the 54 minute episode here.  The six-part series, which debuted April 17, […]

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 of Professors Anne Andrews and Paul Weiss, Cheung was the only UCLA student amongst the group of 25 people nationwide who were chosen for the […]

Professor Hosea Nelson was presented with the 2019 UCLA Alpha Chi Sigma (AXΣ) Glenn Seaborg Award at the annual AXΣ Seaborg Banquet on April 27.                     The event, held at Yamashiro Hollywood, was attended by both members of Alpha Chi Sigma, UCLA chemistry & biochemistry faculty members, […]

Professor Ian Manners (University of Victoria) gave the 2019 Ray and Dorothy Wilson Inorganic Lecture on May 8, 2019. His lecture titled “Functional Nanoscale and Hierarchical Materials by Living Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly” was held in the Cram Conference Room. A native of England, Professor Ian Manners is transitioning from Professor and Chair of Inorganic, Macromolecular and […]