The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has selected Professor Hosea Nelson as one of 18 recipients for the 2017 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering.   In being selected as one of the nation’s most innovative early-career scientists and engineers, each Fellow will receive $875,000 over five years to pursue their research. Nelson joins past departmental […]

Postdoctoral scholar Maher El-Kady was the featured guest on the show which is produced by the largest media company in the Middle East and North Africa. El-Kady was interviewed by Sherif Amer on the TV show “Happening in Egypt”, produced by the MRC Group. The interview aired live on MBC Masr on September 11, 2017. El-Kady […]

UCLA assistant professor of chemistry, Chong Liu, has been named by Science News as one of 10 exceptional young scientists. Prior to joining the UCLA faculty in July 2017, Liu worked with working with Prof. Daniel Nocera at Harvard University as a Lee Kuan Yew postdoctoral fellow. At Harvard he combined the strengths of biology and […]

An extensive article about the research project led by Professor Jim Gimzewski and alum Adam Steig (PhD ’07) was featured in the October 4, 2017 issue.  Stieg, (pictured right) a former graduate student in Gimzewski’s lab, is now a research scientist and associate director of the the California Nanosystems Institute. Their team is using nanowires and artificial […]

Professor Anne Andrews has received a prestigious award from the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.  Andrews received the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award, established in 2009, which promotes cross-cutting, interdisciplinary approaches and is open to individuals and teams of investigators who propose research that could potentially create or challenge existing paradigms. Andrews’ […]

On the day before instruction officially began, the department held its third annual welcome reception for new undergraduate students.   The undergraduate office invited over 300 incoming first-year majors and over 100 incoming transfer students to the Student Collaboratory (Young Hall 4222) for an informal reception where they met faculty, current students, student group leaders, and […]

Garg’s lecture, “How Organic Chemistry Became One of UCLA’s Most Popular Classes”, is open to the public, registration is required. Seating priority will be given to those who registered online.  Attendees are encouraged to arrive before 12:55 p.m., at which time any remaining seats will be given to people who have not registered. Each Cherry […]

Quinlan’s interview was featured in the “People & Ideas” section of the October 2, 2017, issue of the journal.   In the article titled “Quinlan investigates how the cytoskeleton polarizes oocytes”, Quinlan discusses her passion for science, her current research, how she became a scientist, the challenges and rewards of running a laboratory, and achieving a […]