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 Inorganic Chemistry (DIC) for her work with Professor Kit Cummins at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during her Ph.D. studies. She will participate in […]

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 on the ACS Axial website. The sign (below) was prominently displayed at the ACS meeting conference hall so that people could see Andrew’s story and […]

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 the American Chemical Society (SCALACS) in recognition of the medalist’s outstanding contributions to chemistry.  Zink will be presented with the medal at the Richard C. […]

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 perspective, a recent article in Nature says “Citations, in which one paper refers to earlier works, are the standard means by which authors acknowledge the […]

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 in UCLA Newsroom.  To learn more about Jung’s research, visit his group’s website. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): How Michael Jung’s team created a […]

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, faster and more cost-effective. Professor Paul S. Weiss, UC Presidential Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Materials Science & Engineering, and researcher […]

PhD student Dahee Jung leads team to develop a method to create linked networks of metal oxides that could have interesting catalytic or electronic properties. Jung, a 4th year chemistry graduate student, was first author and Professor Alexander Spokoyny was senior author on the team’s paper titled “A molecular cross-linking approach for hybrid metal oxides” […]

The Houk group has elucidated how a novel enzyme catalyzes a reaction that was heretofore known only in the lab and not known to happen in nature. They used computations to figure out the mechanism and basis for chemoselectivity of an unusual enzyme known as a Stig cyclase. Working in collaboration with the experimental group […]