The team, co-led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, reported on the development of two-dimensional ‘superlattices’ which could lead to improvements in electronics. The study titled “Monolayer atomic crystal molecular superlattices” was published in the March 7, 2018, issue of the prestigious journal Nature. The research team was led by Duan, UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Yu […]

Joan Valentine, the first female faculty member in UCLA’s Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, was recently featured in a video by her alma mater, Princeton University. Valentine was the first female Ph.D. recipient from Princeton’s Department of Chemistry. She was interviewed by Princeton’s science reporter Dr. Tien Nguyen when she returned to Princeton on May 17, […]

In the opinion piece, Professor Patrick Harran and his group were recognized for their “highly creative approach to macrocycle synthesis”.   The writer refers to the Harran group’s recent paper “Unconventional Fragment Usage Enables a Concise Total Synthesis of (−)-Callyspongiolide” by postdoctoral fellow Francesco Manoni, visiting scholar Corentin Rumo, graduate student Liubo Li, and Harran which […]

On February 26, 2018, the Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) hosted the second event of their Navigating Graduate School Lunch Hour Series. At the “Networking, the how and why?” event, a panel of UCLA faculty and postdoctoral fellows shared their experiences building professional relationships outside of the lab. The discussion included navigating conference opportunities, maintaining […]

Pratibha Varma-Nelson, Founding Executive Director of the STEM Education, Innovation and Research Institute at IUPUI, gave the February 27th seminar. Varma-Nelson, a professor of chemistry at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), was instrumental in the development of the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) program, which is a method and practice of teaching that encourages students taking […]

Collaboration with researchers from China has led to development of device which could illuminate the mechanism of important chemical and biological processes. The results of the collaboration with scientists from Peking University and the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, were explained in the team’s paper titled “Direct single-molecule dynamic detection of chemical reactions” […]

On the occasion of Professor Raphael “Raphy” Levine’s 80th birthday, a symposium will be held in his honor at the ACS national meeting in Boston this August. Levine will turn 80 on March 29, 2018. The symposium titled “Information Theory and Dynamics: From Elementary Processes to System Chemistry, In Honor of Raphy Levine’s 80th Birthday” […]