Alumnus Florida State University chemistry professor Richard Glick (PhD ’54) passed away on June 1, 2018, at the age of 91. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Glick joined the U.S. Navy after graduating from high school  He served as a corpsman and pharmacist mate at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital and on a hospital ship as […]

Undergraduate student researchers Isaac Diaz (Spokoyny group) and Jenna Molas (Kaner group) have been accepted into the prestigious UC LEADS program.  The University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced DegreeS (UC LEADS) program is one of the most prestigious fellowships awarded by the University of California system. Each year this honor is awarded to up […]

The team reported on a new on-chip “tool” that helps to “see” & identify the key process that hinders the performance of catalyst used in fuel cells. The tool will help scientists find respective solutions more efficiently. The work was led by Xiangfeng Duan, a UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Yu Huang, a […]

Professor Michael Jung was the co-awardee of the Amgen Early Innovator Award at the UCLA Biomedical & Life Science Innovation Day 2018. The award was presented to Jung, a distinguished professor of chemistry, and his co-awardee Daniel H. Geschwind, a distinguished professor of neurology and psychiatry at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, for […]

Postdoctoral scholar Dayan Elshan (Jung group) won first place in the cancer category for his poster at the UCLA Biomedical and Life Science Innovation Day 2018. Elshan received a $750 prize for his poster titled “Androgen Receptor Degraders and Signaling Axis Inhibitors Targeting Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer”. At the June 13th event held at the Luskin Center, […]

Alumna Nako Nakatsuka (PhD ’17) was chosen to serve as one of two student processional marshals for the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony. At the 2018 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony on June 14, 2018, Nakatsuka and her co-marshal, Eric Hosbach Newman from the Department of English, led the march of graduates in and out of Royce Hall, delivered a […]

UCLA chemistry and biochemistry assistant professors Hosea Nelson and Jose Rodriguez (BS ’07, PhD ’12) have been selected as 2018 Pew Scholars. The honor provides funding to outstanding young researchers whose work is relevant to the advancement of human health. The Pew Scholars, who were selected from 184 nominations, will receive four-year, $300,000 grants to […]

Professor Ellen Sletten is one of thirteen UCLA junior faculty members selected to receive the prestigious UCLA Hellman Fellows award. The UCLA Hellman Fellows Program was established in 2011 through the generosity of the Hellman Fellows Fund to help promising assistant professors with their research and creative endeavors, in hopes of promoting career advancement and […]