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 […]

More than thirty Biochemistry students and postdocs enjoyed a night of trivia on Thursday, November 9, 2017 in the Winstein Commons. At the event hosted by gBSA, undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs from all labs banded into six teams to compete in a battle of wits. Second-year student Won Jung served as the MC for the […]

Several undergraduate researchers received presentation awards at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) on Nov 4, 2017. ABRCMS is one of the largest communities of underrepresented minorities in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), with over 4,440 attendees from more than 350 colleges and universities presenting more than 2,200 oral and poster […]

Professor Richard Kaner and postdoc Maher El-Kady created the device that can use solar power to inexpensively and efficiently create and store energy. The technology is described in a paper titled “An integrated electrochemical device based on earth-abundant metals for both energy storage and conversion” in the journal Energy Storage Materials. To learn more about […]

Nako Nakatsuka, a graduate student in the groups of Professors Anne Andrews and Paul Weiss, has illustrated a children’s chemistry book. The book is titled A is for Atom: ABCs for Aspiring Chemists, and was written by Heidi McMahon, a former member of the Weiss group who is now teaching at College of the Canyons, […]