A paper by Professor Thomas Mason and PhD student Ha Seong Kim has been selected for the 2018 Rheologica Acta Publication Award. This paper, entitled “Entropic, electrostatic, and interfacial regimes in concentrated disordered ionic emulsions,” was published in the June 9, 2016 issue of Rheologica Acta. Mason was the senior corresponding author and Kim was […]

Professor Ken Houk and Dr Jacob Sanders in his group have provided computational evidence to support a new mechanism of action for FAD. Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) is a well-known enzymatic cofactor that catalyzes a variety of oxidative transformations in biochemical pathways.   The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Dr Eric Scerri is co-editor of a recently released new book on the periodic table. Published by Oxford University Press (OUP), the book titled “Mendeleev to Oganesson – A Multidisciplinary Perspective on the Periodic Table” was released in March 2018. “Since 1969, the international chemistry community has only held conferences […]

Clarke is featured in the society’s magazine in recognition of the 2018 William C Rose Award which he will receive at the upcoming ASBMB meeting in San Diego. The profile was published in the April 2018 issue of ASBMB Today magazine.  Clarke will be honored at the society’s annual meeting on Wednesday, April 25th at […]

Graduate student Devon Widmer (Schwartz group) has been selected for the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. Widmer is one of five awardees selected from a large field of extraordinary nominees. She will be recognized at the annual “Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching” dinner in the Fall 2018 quarter. Awardees receive a […]

Houk team joins Nobelist Feringa and Wolf Prize Laureate Fujita to discover a Winstein/Roberts non-classical cation in an unexpected place. The latest issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society features a paper by Professor Kendall Houk’s group (Pier Alexandre Champagne, postdoc now in Ottawa), the Ben Feringa group in Netherlands (Feringa was 2016 […]

Professor Richard Kaner and PhD student Cheng-Wei Lin are part of the UCLA Carbon Upcycling team which has developed an eco-friendly substitute for concrete. The team of engineers, scientists and policy experts have advanced to the finals of the $20 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE by successfully creating a near carbon dioxide-neutral version of concrete […]

Saturday, April 14th was the annual Freshman Bruin Day for 2018 for newly admitted undergraduate students. The Chemistry & Biochemistry booth had student volunteers from Alpha Chi Sigma {AXE} and Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS), along with Denise Mantonya, Tim Mahlanza and Corinne Allas.  Admitted students and their families seemed to particularly enjoy […]