Professor Richard Kaner and researcher Maher El-Kady have created a self-extinguishing device that uses body movement to determine when workers are in danger. The team’s study titled “Fire-retardant, Self-extinguishing Triboelectric […]

Undergraduate student Michelle Nguyen is the winner of the 2017-2018 Chem14A/B Excellence in Chemistry Book Award. A junior Physiological Science major, Michelle was presented the award by Dr. Laurence Lavelle at the […]

We are sad to report that Geraldine Gregory, widow of alum George Gregory (BA ’42), and longtime supporter of the department, passed away on March 7, 2019. Geraldine was the […]

Biochemistry graduate student Xiaofei “Fay” Lin (Hoffmann group) wins Audience Choice Award at the 5th Annual Grad Slam Final Competition. Lin gave her prize-winning three-minute talk titled “Decrypting the Immune […]

On March 11, 2019, Professor Daan Frenkel (University of Cambridge) gave the 5th annual Carolyn & Charles Knobler Lecture. The well-attended lecture, titled “Counting the Uncountable:Entropy Beyond Boltzmann”, was followed […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) in recognition of his ground-breaking nanoscience research. Weiss holds a UC Presidential Chair and is […]

A team led by Ken Houk has discovered a naturally occurring reaction in enzymes which could lead to new biological activities and pharmaceutical applications. Houk’s collaboration with two former group […]

Their photo is featured in the March 7, 2018 UCLA Newsroom article about the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science’s inaugural fellows. Professor Justin Caram is an assistant professor of chemistry […]