The Saturday afternoon event on May 13th was organized by the  UCLA Graduate Biochemistry Student Association .  The students organized the event to promote camaraderie among all the UCLA Biochemistry, Molecular & Structural Biology (BMSB) students. Attendees were invited to “enjoy refreshments and unwind after a long week of experiments”. The group played frisbee and volleyball […]

Professor Alexander Spokoyny was presented with the 2017 UCLA Alpha Chi Sigma (AXΣ) Glenn Seaborg Award at the annual AXΣ Seaborg Banquet on May 6th.                     The event, held at FantaSea Yachts in Marina Del Rey, was attended by both members of Alpha Chi Sigma and […]

An interview with third-year biochemistry undergraduate student Rico Lomarda about his music was recently featured in the student-run daily newspaper. In addition to his studies, Lomarda finds time to write and perform his own songs. In January he released his first EP titled “Love or Something” which he recorded with the student-run record label Landing […]

Alumnus Sep Sarshar ’89 has been selected for the 2017 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award.  Dr. Sarshar will accept the award and present his commencement address at the UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 17, 2017 in the Court of Sciences. “In my sophomore year, a chance meeting with my undergraduate […]

At the end of April, the Molecular Biology Institute (MBI) held its Annual Retreat in Ventura.  The new beach location proved to be popular with the 92 students and 20 faculty who attended, in addition to the invited speakers.   Each year the Molecular Biology Institute retreat provides students, postdocs and faculty with the opportunity […]

Research by Professor Xiangfeng Duan and members of his group was published in the journal Science this week. Titled “Three-dimensional holey-graphene/niobia composite architectures for ultrahigh-rate energy storage,” the paper was published online by the journal Science on Friday, May 12, 2017. Duan group team members behind this research include the two co-first authors, postdoctoral fellows […]

Professor Patrick Harran was awarded the 31st Yoshida Lectureship from the International Organic Chemistry Foundation (IOCF) in Japan.  In recognition of his “outstanding contributions to organic chemistry”, Harran presented two lectures, titled “Tactics and Strategy in Complex Molecule Synthesis”, at Kyoto and Osaka Universities as part of a six-city, eight university Japan Society for the […]

Author and UCLA chemistry lecturer Eric Scerri discussed his new book in an interview on Book Circle Online (BCO). In the interview, which was streamed live on May 2nd, Scerri discusses his book A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science with Book Circle Online (BCO) host James Lott Jr. The interview […]