Thanks to MIC’s UV-visible spectrophotometer, Gavin Loughran was able to investigate the absorbance rate of UVA rays by various colors of glass.      ** Update as of April 3, […]

Ground-breaking solvent research by Professor Benjamin Schwartz’s group was recently highlighted by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science. Schwartz and graduate student Devon Widmer (pictured right) reported on the […]

The team, co-led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, has developed a highly durable aerogel which could ultimately be an upgrade for insulation on spacecraft. Their study titled “Double-negative-index ceramic aerogels for […]

First-year graduate students Ernest Armenta, Milauni Mehta, Yi Shen, and Stephanie Tenney have been awarded 2019 Stone Graduate Fellowship Awards. The fellowships are awarded by the UCLA College of Letters […]

First-year chemistry graduate student Daniel Robertson (Tolbert group) has been awarded a prestigious UCLA Alumni Association Fellowship. The award, which is funded by a grant from the UCLA Foundation, was […]

Organic chemistry graduate students Sarah Anthony, Daniel Estabrook, Kersti Caddell Haatveit, and Stasik Popov have been named the 2019 Senior Foote Fellows.   The Christopher S. Foote Fellowship in Organic Chemistry […]

Kendall Houk, UCLA’s Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry, gave the Andrew Steitwieser lecture at UC Berkeley on January 29, 2019.   In Houk’s lecture titled “Mechanisms and Dynamics of Pericyclic Reactions […]

The new lab coats are made of a highly protective light-weight fabric which was developed by a former UCLA organic chemistry graduate student. The department was able to purchase a […]