Alumna Dr Tanya Petrossian (BS Biochemistry ’05, PhD Biochemistry & Molecular Biology ’10) appointed Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Entrepreneur in Residence.  The Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIR) program helps successful entrepreneurs in Los Angeles connect with future business leaders and foster growth in their industries. Over the course of her year of service, Petrossian will help to shape […]

Professor Katja Lindenberg (University of California, San Diego) presented the 11th annual Robert Scott lecture on October 16, 2017.   Lindenberg, the Chancellor’s Associates Chair Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the UC San Diego, is widely known for her research on non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. She has addressed problems such as energy and information transport in biopolymers, […]

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 […]