On March 16, 2018, students from Professor Craig Merlic’s Honors Seminar for Chemistry 89 held a poster session focused on new medicines. At the event held in the Young Hall […]

PhD student Kent Kirlikovali (Spokoyny group) has been selected for a 2018 IPMI Student Award. The award recognizes excellence and achievement in the field of precious metals.  Kirlikovali will receive the […]

Postdoctoral associate Julia Stauber (Spokoyny group) has been named as a recipient of the 2018 DIC Young Investigator Award. Stauber was recognized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of […]

Professor Anne Andrews was one of four scientists featured prominently at the ACS national meeting in New Orleans March 18-22, 2018. Andrews’ Mindshift profile and video interview can be accessed […]

Professor Jeffrey Zink has been selected to receive the 2017 SCALACS Tolman Medal.             The medal is awarded each year by the Southern California Section of […]

Professor Richard Kaner and postdoc Maher El-Kady’s articles on graphene supercapacitors are among the top most cited research articles during the past five years.  In order to put this into […]

UCLA chemistry professor Michael Jung helped develop Erleada, which was recently approved by the FDA for treating an especially lethal form of prostate cancer. Jung’s drug research was recently featured […]

The researchers have utilized microscopic splinter-like structures called “nanospears” for the targeted delivery of biomolecules straight to patient cells.  These magnetically guided nanostructures could enable gene therapies that are safer, […]