Former UCLA theoretical physical chemistry professor and alum Dr Andrew Hazi (’64) passed away on December 4, 2018 at the age of 77. Dr. Andrew Hazi received his B.S. degree in physical chemistry from UCLA in 1964, and his Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Chicago in 1967.  After spending one year as […]

Professor Guillaume Chanfreau has been awarded a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35 Grant from the NIH/NIGMS. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded Chanfreau $1.97 million over five years to support his research program which is focused on understanding how genes regulated […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Eric Scerri, world expert on the periodic table, discusses the 150th anniversary of the periodic table. On January 3, 2019, Scerri was interviewed on the UK’s BBC Radio 4 about the 150th anniversary of the periodic table which is celebrated in 2019.  The BBC Inside Science interview can be downloaded […]

Graduate students Kevin Murray, Scott McConnell, and Rebeccah Warmack have been selected as 2018-19 Audree Fowler Fellows in Protein Science. The awards were announced at the Molecular Biology Institute’s 2018 Student Awards Ceremony in Boyer Hall on Tuesday, December 18, 2018. About Dr. Audree Fowler Dr. Audree Fowler (pictured top left) received her B.S. in […]

Graduate student Guillaume Urtecho (Kosuri group) is one of three UCLA graduate students to receive a prestigious 2018 MBI Teaching Excellence Award. The inaugural MBI Roy & Dorothy John/Fred Eiserling & Judith Lengyel Teaching Excellence Awards, given to graduate students in their 4th or 5th year of the Molecular Biology Interdepartmental Doctoral Program (MBIDP), were […]

We are sad to report that alumna Catherine Leetola passed away at the age of 34 on December 28, 2018, after a courageous two-year cancer battle. Catherine was born January 11, 1984, in Castro Valley, California to Thomas and Mary (Coble) Leettola. Her life-long love of science lead her to UC San Diego where she […]

Two giants in the science of electron cryo-microscopy were awarded the 2018 Glenn Seaborg Medal in recognition of their crucial contributions to the field. Professor Emeritus Robert Glaeser (University of California, Berkeley) and Dr. Richard Henderson (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) developed cryo-electron microscopy for high resolution structure determination of large protein assemblies. Henderson was […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been elected a fellow of the prestigious European Academy of Sciences. A UCLA distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and of materials science and engineering, Kaner holds the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation.   Kaner received his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. After carrying […]