Professors Michael Jung, Sri Kosuri, Jose Rodriguez, and Sarah Tolbert are featured in the Summer 2018 UCLA College Magazine article “What if?”. Excerpted from Summer 2018 UCLA College Magazine: Scientists in the Division of Physical Sciences are on a quest to solve the seemingly impossible, starting by asking, “What if…?” Their answers lead to breakthroughs that are […]

The baton for the leadership of the NIH-supported UCLA CMB training program was passed on from Professor Steven Clarke to Professor Jorge Torres on July 1, 2018. Professor Jorge Torres (Chemistry & Biochemistry) will be aided in his direction of the program by Professor Elissa Hallem (Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics) who has taken on […]

Professor Thomas Mason and alumnus Dr Po-Yuan Wang have created lithographically pre-assembled monolayers of mobile Brownian shape-designed colloidal tiles. Their Letter, entitled “A Brownian quasi-crystal of pre-assembled colloidal Penrose tiles”, was published online in the prestigious journal Nature on August 29, 2018.  Wang (Ph.D. ’18, Mason Group) is the first-author and Mason is the senior […]

Undergraduate researcher Danielle Cadena (Caram group) has been accepted to the Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholars Program.   “I am thrilled to be a part of the Clare Boothe Luce Undergraduate Research Fellowship, in which I’ll be able to continue my research with the Caram group, and develop my professional skills” Cadena said. “With this scholarship, […]

Professor Jose Rodriguez, a biochemist, was recently named one of C&EN’s Talented Twelve. Jose Rodriguez picked up structural biology first as a hobby. In his free time while working on a Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of California, Los Angeles, he collaborated with a physics professor on a problem critical to how biologists […]

Paul Weiss and the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital have been awarded a $100,000 St Baldrick’s Foundation grant. Weiss, UC presidential chair and distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, materials science and engineering, is developing technologies that power cellular immunotherapies to treat various pediatric cancers. He and his team recently published research detailing the fabrication of nanostructures that […]

On August 14, 2018, the Houk Group hosted a Virtual Symposium on synthetic organic chemistry. The quarterly American Chemical Society (ACS)-DOC Virtual Symposium was viewed “live” by students and postdocs in Cram Conf. Room, Mol Sci 3440 and featured talks by Dr. Rebecca Ruck, Executive Director at Merck & Co. Inc., and Prof. Scott Miller, […]

Professor Ohyun Kwon, an organic chemist, has recently been awarded a $200,000 Technology Development Grant. The Technology Development Grant comes from the University of California Center for Accelerated Innovation (UC CAI). A world leader in phosphine catalysis, Kwon received the award for her proposal titled “Therapeutic Product to Treat Arrhythmia” which is described as follows: […]