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 […]

In Nature Chemistry, UCLA researchers report their discovery of compound that could combat brain cell death in Alzheimer’s patients.   The paper, titled “Inhibiting amyloid-β cytotoxicity through its interaction with the cell surface receptor LilrB2 by structure-based design” was published in the October 8, 2018 online issue of the prestigious scientific journal.  Co-senior authors are Paul D. […]

On Thursday, October 18, 2018, Professors George Whitesides (Harvard) and David Schuster (NYU) presented the 2018 John D and Edith M Roberts Lecture at UCLA. The event, which was held at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute auditorium, began with a lecture by George Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Harvard University, followed […]

Professor Paula Diaconescu discussed her research and career path with host Rockefeller University postdoctoral researcher Toshiki Nakashige on his podcast. Diaconescu recorded the nearly 55-minute Scientist podcast interview on September 26 at UCLA. She met Nakashige in 2015 when she visited the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to give a Harvard-MIT inorganic seminar.  They discussed […]

Graduate student Wei Chen (Zink group) has been awarded a $10,000 scholarship from the Yin Chin Foundation of USA and STUF United Fund Inc. The award is given annually to six Taiwanese citizens who are graduate students in Southern California. A native of Nantou, Taiwan, Wei received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from […]