The team, co-led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, reported on their development of a new process for assembling seminconductor devices. The study titled “Approaching the Schottky–Mott limit in van der Waals metal–semiconductor junctions” was published in the May 16, 2018, issue of the prestigious journal Nature. The research team was led by Duan, UCLA professor of […]

Fourteen chemistry & biochemistry graduate student researchers receive the 2018-2019 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). The fellowship is intended to support doctoral students who are within one year of completing and filing their dissertation. It includes a $20,000 stipend plus standard tuition and fees (excluding nonresident tuition). Each year, approximately 200 Dissertation Year […]

Four dynamic speakers are scheduled for our 2018-19 Distinguished Lecture Series: George Whitesides, David Schuster, Joanna Aizenberg, & Zhenan Bao. The UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series is a department-wide colloquium in a special week once per quarter when there are no other seminars in our department. The lectures are open to the public.  […]

On June 4th, leading nanoscience researcher Professor Mostafa El-Sayed (Georgia Institute of Technology) gave the 2018 Daniel Kivelson Lecture.  A standing-room-only crowd attended El-Sayed’s lecture titled “Nanotechnology Enables Hot Gold Nanorods to Kill Cancer Cells and to Stop Them from Migrating to Other Sites” which was followed by a reception. The Kivelson lecture celebrates and honors […]

On Thursday, October 18, 2018, Professors George Whitesides (Harvard) and David Schuster (NYU) will present the 2018 John D Roberts Lecture at UCLA. The event, which will be held at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute auditorium, will begin at 4:00 p.m. with a lecture by George Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, […]

First-year graduate student and US Marine Corps veteran Zeeshan Parvez (Spokoyny group) has been named a Tillman Scholar for the class of 2018. Parvez is among an elite group of only 60 national recipients selected out of a pool of 2300 applicants from all universities across the state for the 10th Tillman Scholar class. In […]

The groundbreaking research, led by Professor Juli Feigon, was recently published in the prestigious journal Cell. The paper titled “Structure of Telomerase with Telomeric DNA” was published in the May 17, 2018, issue of the journal Cell . Professor Juli Feigon, senior author on the study, is a Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and holds the […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry organic chemists engaged future scientists at the 4th annual Warner Science Slam on May 20, 2018. Several hundred children and their families attended the outreach event at the Warner Avenue public elementary school in West Los Angeles. Performing demonstrations at the outreach event were several UCLA organic chemists – Professor Neil Garg and […]