Professor Richard Kaner & postdoc Maher El-Kady are part of the team to design a supercapacitor that could make safer & more durable devices.  The team was led by Kaner and Professor James Rusling from the Departments of Chemistry and Cell Biology at the University of Connecticut. Members of Rusling group were also part of […]

Professor Neil Garg has been named the 2017 winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry Higher Education Teaching Award. The award is given for outstanding teaching skills and the development of innovative materials and methods in higher education, resulting in a strong positive impact on students.   In addition to his award winning innovative teaching, […]

Matthew Fontana (Schwartz group) has been selected for the 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. Fontana is one of five awardees selected from a large field of extraordinary nominees. He will be recognized at the annual “Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching” dinner in the Fall 2017 quarter. Awardees receive a monetary award […]

On Saturday, April 29, the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry hosted the annual ACS Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference.  Over 270 undergraduates, graduates and faculty attended, along with family members of presenters. Tom Cahoon, Director of Outreach and Educational Initiatives, organized the event and Professors Heather Tienson and Alex Spokoyny served as judges, along with […]

Andrea Liu is the fifth female faculty member associated with the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry to be elected to the Academy. The former UCLA physical chemistry professor, now the Hepburn Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) […]

Biochemistry senior Nguyen Pham (Catherine Clarke group) is a winner in ASBMB’s 21st annual Undergraduate Poster Competition.  Nguyen’s poster, titled “A conserved putative kinase is required for coenzyme Q biosynthesis: Functional insights from yeast genetics”, was the winner in the “Metabolism, bioenergetics, lipids and signal transduction” category at the competition held on April 22, 2017 […]

Mary Waddington (Spokoyny group) was selected for the AFRL 2017 Space Scholars Program to work on ionic liquid tailoring for thin conductive film electrolysis.  Such films hold promise in tunable thermal coatings for spacecraft.  The 1st year Ph.D. student in Prof. Alex Spokoyny’s group will spend the summer conducting research with Dr. Lok-kun Tsui as […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been awarded the 2017 Jacques Beaulieu Excellence Research Chair by the National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS), Canada. According to the INRS announcement, the award is named in honor of physician Jacques Beaulieu, a researcher and pioneer of the carbon dioxide (CO2-TEA) laser who indelibly shaped the landscape of Quebec research, […]