As a featured speaker at the 2017 SACNAS Diversity in STEM Conference, Dean Miguel García-Garibay spoke about his work with molecular machinery.  García-Garibay gave the lecture to thousands of students, faculty, and researchers at the 2017 SACNAS: The National Diversity in STEM Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 19-21, 2017. He spoke about how, with careful orchestration […]

Professor Paul Weiss group’s cover article in ACS Nano on etching silicon nanotubes is featured as “editor’s choice” in Science Magazine. In the original work, they report a robust and general strategy called multiple-patterning nanosphere lithography for the scalable and tunable fabrication of periodic 3D hierarchical nanostructures. The technique exploits the selected and repeated etching of […]

Three UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty are among the most influential scientists in their fields for 2017, as determined by Thomson Reuters. Those recognized were Prof. David Eisenberg for biochemistry and Prof. Xiangfeng Duan and Prof. Jeffrey Zink for chemistry.    The purpose of the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers List is to identify contemporary […]

Professor Neil Garg and members of his lab visited a local elementary school to teach children about forces using helium-filled balloons. At the outreach event at the Warner Avenue Elementary School on Monday, December 4th, the group demonstrated how helium-filled balloons can lift objects off the ground to counter gravity. The kindergartners at the event […]

Research of Professor Richard Kaner and postdoc Maher El-Kady featured in “The Cutting Edge” section of the U Magazine.  U Magazine is a publication of the UCLA Health and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. The article entitled “Implantable medical device draws energy directly from human body” appeared in the fall issue of the magazine, also […]

Team led by physical chemist Professor Gerard Wong discovers a new perspective on how cells regulate the sizes of mitochondria by cutting them into smaller units. Wong holds faculty positions in the UCLA Department of Bioengineering and the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and he is a member of the California NanoSystems Institute. To […]

Graduate student Eun Bin Go (Tang group) has been awarded a Pauley Fellowship by the UCLA College of Letters and Sciences, Division of Physical Sciences.  The Edwin W. Pauley Fellowship is a two-year fellowship program designed to provide fellowship support to beginning graduate students with outstanding records and promise of scholarly achievement. Recipients recieve a […]

Division of Physical Sciences Dean Professor Miguel García-Garibay has been appointed to the National Science Foundation’s Directorate for MPSAC.   The Mathematical & Physical Sciences Advisory Committee (MPSAC), which consists of twelve members who serve a three-year terms, “provides advice and recommendations to the National Science Foundation’s programs within the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)”. A […]