Four UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty members have been selected as 2018 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  Professors Heather Maynard, Carla Koehler, Xiangfeng Duan, and Neil Garg are among 416 members to be honored this year by the association their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its […]

Professors Justin Caram, Yung-Ya Lin, Margot Quinlan, and Ben Schwartz named inaugural Faculty Fellows of the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science (CDLS). CDLS was created to recruit and retain underrepresented people in Environmental Science. In addition to providing research and outreach opportunities, CDLS brings faculty together to engage in professional development, including workshops offered […]

Chemistry graduate students Wei Chen (Zink lab), Cheng-Wei Lin (Kaner lab), and Mary Waddington (Spokoyny lab) to receive 2018 Mautner Graduate Awards. In recognition of receiving the Mautner Graduate Awards, each student will receive a $5,000 prize and will attend a dinner with the 2018 Mautner Memorial Lecture Series Distinguished Guest Lecturer, Nobel Laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart. […]

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.   […]