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 […]

A paper by Professor Ellen Sletten, her group, and MIT researchers, including Professor Justin Caram’s MIT postdoctoral work, was highlighted in the journal. The researchers originally published “Flavylium Polymethine Fluorophores for Near- and Shortwave Infrared Imaging” in the 9 October 2017 issue of Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. , and it was flagged as a “Hot […]

Professor and dean of the division of physical sciences Miguel Garcia-Garibay featured in Chemical & Engineering (C&EN). The article about underrepresented minority faculty in chemistry was published in the November 6, 2017 issue of C&EN, a weekly magazine published by the American Chemical Society. To learn more about García-Garibay’s research, visit his group’s website. García-Garibay (seated) with […]

Biochemistry, Molecular & Structural Biology (BMSB) graduate students volunteered at the annual Exploring Your Universe event. The annual science festival took place on Sunday, November 5, 2017. The Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) hosted a booth where children and their families could extract DNA from strawberries. BMSB graduate students helped the children to smash the strawberries, […]

The department recently hosted international visitors from China, Sri Lanka, and Uzbekistan for the US Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. Dr. Qian Zhang (Vice Dean, Chemistry Department, Northeast Normal University; China), Dr. Vinitha Thadhani (Sr. Research Scientist, Sri Lankan Institute of Nanotechnology; Visiting Sr. Lecturer, Institute of Chemistry; Sri Lanka), and Dr. Shakhlokhon […]