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 […]

Professor Ken Houk and postdoc Yun-Fang Yang are part of team to develop method for potentially removing nearly all sulfur compounds from gas and diesel fuel. The results – from an international industry-academic collaboration led by California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and BP Products North America (BP), and in collaboration with researchers at UCLA, ETH […]

Professor Daniel Nocera (Harvard) was honored at the February 22, 2017 event. Prof. Nocera’s seminar, titled “Fuels to Food from Sunlight, Air and Water”, took place at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) auditorium. Inorganic chemistry professor Dr. Alexander Spokoyny gave the introductory remarks, thanked donors Raymond and Dorothy Wilson whose generous endowment made the event […]

Mackenzie Anderson, an undergraduate researcher in the Kaner group, received the Best Student Poster Award at the AWWA/AMTA Membrane Technology Conference. Anderson received an American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) Affordable Desalination Collaboration (ADC) fellowship and as a result had the opportunity to present at the February 2017 Membrane Technology conference in Long Beach at which […]

Professor Alexander Spokoyny is one of four UCLA faculty members to be selected for 2017 Sloan Fellowships. The Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving nominations for most of the very best young scientists from the United States and Canada.   A true Bruin, Spokoyny received his B.S. in chemistry from UCLA in 2006 […]