Chemistry instructor Hung V Pham (PhD ’15 Houk group) discusses the fun challenge of creating puzzles for the escape room that he and his friends created. Dr. Hung V. Pham (Ph.D. ’15) graduated magna cum laude from UC Irvine (UCI) in 2008, with a B.S. in chemistry and a B.S. in mathematics. He worked as physical […]

The UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry students visited the local elementary school to demonstrate experiments with a Halloween theme. At the outreach event at the Warner Avenue Elementary School on October 30, 2018, members of Professor Neil Garg‘s group talked to the children about the chemical beta-carotene and how it makes pumpkins (and other vegetables) orange. […]

The structure of telomerase with telomeric DNA from the Feigon lab has been featured as November 2018 “Molecule of the Month” in the RCSB Protein Data Bank. The structure, from the Feigon group paper titled “Structure of Telomerase with Telomeric DNA” published in the May 17, 2018, issue of the journal Cell, was featured on the […]

Bruinlife’s 2018 UCLA Senior of the Year Mercedes Cornelius (BS ’18) is a guest on the first season of new web series Nerd Girl Nation. Mercedes, currently on a year-long research internship in pharmaceutical sciences at Peking University Health Science Center, is a guest on episode 9of Nerd Girl Nation, which will air in July 2019. The series premiered […]

Teacher-Scholar Professor Zhao Li explains her teaching philosophy in a short video recorded as part of the recognition by the UCLA Academic Senate. The 2018 Distinguished Teaching Awards were announced earlier this year and the recipients were recognized at the 2018 Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching at the Chancellor’s residence on Oct. 25.   […]

Second-year chemistry graduate student and US Marine Corps veteran Zeeshan Parvez (Spokoyny group) speaks at UCLA’s Veterans Day Ceremony on Friday, Nov 9.  Click here to learn more about the November 9: Veterans Day observances at UCLA. From UCLA Newsroom (by Alison Hewitt) UCLA Marine veteran will use his expertise to make soldiers safer Zeeshan […]

UCLA students introduced hands-on experiments related to nanotechnology in both Spanish and English to thousands of attendees at the Feria de Educación at CSUN. Annually, the California State University Chancellor’s Office in partnership with Univision hosts thousands of Spanish-speaking students and their families to take part in Feria de Educación or “Education Fair,” a community-oriented […]

The preprint, which describes the application of a groundbreaking method to study organic compounds, was downloaded 19,000 times in a 24-hour period.  The previous download record for any preprint on ChemRxiv was 15,000 downloads over a six-month-period. The news was featured in UCLA Newsroom on November 27, 2018. “We have developed a way to look […]