Four chemistry & biochemistry graduate students have received highly competitive 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards. In addition, two current graduate students and three alumni received NSF Honorable Mentions. Graduate students David Boyer (Eisenberg group), Emily Cosco (Sletten Group), Jacob Dander (Garg Group), and Ethan Rosser (Jung/Radu Groups) were awarded a 2017 NSF Graduate Research […]

On March 4th, the Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science (OCDS) hosted students from Moorpark College for lab tours and a graduate student panel. The event is a part of the ongoing program by OCDS to encourage and help community college students pursue a career in the sciences. The day started off with lab tours […]

UCLA ranked 9th in the subject of chemistry in the recently released QS World University Rankings.  QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) a British company specializing in education and study abroad. The primary aim of the QS World University Rankings is to help students make informed […]

Alumnus Professor Thomas Poon (PhD ’95 Foote group) has been named Loyola Marymount University’s next executive vice president and provost. Poon received his B.S. in chemistry from Fairfield University and his Ph.D. in chemistry at UCLA under the direction of Christopher S. Foote. He was a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Postdoctoral Fellow at Colby College before […]

Professor Richard Kaner and postdoc Dr Maher El-Kady are featured in a recent episode of PBS’s science show “NOVA”. Kaner, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry and materials science and engineering at UCLA, is leading the research that could revolutionize the way we depend on batteries. The interview was part of an episode titled […]

UC Santa Barbara chemistry and biochemistry lecturer Dr Kalju Kahn gave the Winter Quarter Instructional Division seminar on March 7, 2017. In his seminar titled “Motivating and Engaging Students in Online Chemistry Courses”, Kahn spoke about the approaches he uses to create an “innovative and engaging learning environment” when teaching on-line courses and the resources […]

Alumnus California State University, Fullerton, Professor Emeritus Robert Spenger (PhD ’61) died on January 20, 2017, at the age of 93. Spenger enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley in 1942 and, after one semester, went into the service where he repaired airplanes at the World War II Army Air Force base at Brownsville, Texas. […]

Alumna CSULA biochemistry professor Cecilia Zurita-Lopez (PhD ’11 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, S Clarke lab) named 2017 Emerging Scholar.  Zurita-Lopez, an assistant professor of biochemistry at the California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), was given the honor by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine which recognizes 12 minority scholars throughout the nation whose research and […]