Professor Shimon Weiss leads team to develop nanosensors that can be directly inserted into a cell’s lipid membrane and be used to measure membrane potential.  The devices, which are based […]

Photos from the 2018 Christopher S Foote Lecture events are now available for viewing. On Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018, Professor Eric Block from the Department of Chemistry and the University […]

The researchers have determined the atomic structure of a protein fragment called a prion that is associated with infectious neurodegenerative diseases. Professor Jose Rodriguez holds the Howard Reiss Development Chair […]

Professor Neil Garg has been awarded Baylor University’s prestigious Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching.  The award is given once every two years after a rigorous selection process involving […]

1st year PhD student Mackenzie Anderson (Kaner Group) awarded a 2018 American Membrane Technology Association-US Bureau of Reclamation Graduate Fellowship. Mackenzie was one of four graduate students nationally to receive […]

UCLA researchers have found that modification of actin leads to dramatic changes in actin filament stability. In a study published in December in Nature Communications, researchers led by Professors Emil […]

Photos from the 2017 Seaborg Symposium & Medal Award Dinner honoring Professor William Gelbart are now available for viewing. The full photo gallery is available here. On Saturday, Nov. 18, […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Dr Eric Scerri was invited by C&EN to write a guest editorial in celebration of the Year of the Periodic Table. The United Nations Educational, […]