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, […]

Professor Margot Quinlan and graduate student Aanand Patel lead UCLA research team to discover new role for the protein involved in muscle function. They reported on their research in a paper titled “Drosophila and human FHOD family formins nucleate actin filaments”, published in the November 10, 2017 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Co-authors […]

Professor Ric Kaner and his research collaborators in Australia have recently published a paper in the journal Science on the synthesis of 2D materials. “A liquid metal reaction environment for the room-temperature synthesis of atomically thin metal oxides” appeared in the 20 October 2017 issue of Science. Professor Kaner’s collaborators were Ali Zavabeti, Jian Zhen […]

Professor Thomas Mason and his research group have just published a joint paper on the glass and jamming transitions of concentrated nanoemulsions with their Swiss collaborators in Scientific Reports. Professor Mason and his graduate students Ha Seong Kim and Matthew Pagenkopp worked with Professor Frank Scheffold and his postdoctoral researchers Marco Braibanti and Nesrin Şenbil […]

The retired astronaut received the award at the Exploring Your Universe festival on the UCLA campus on Sunday, November 5, 2017. Dr. Anna Fisher, who flew a successful mission for NASA in 1984 and became the first mother in space, received three degrees from UCLA between 1976 and 1987. The Division of Physical Sciences gives […]