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 […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer & philosopher of science Eric Scerri writes about the nature of science for the Los Angeles Times. Dr. Eric Scerri is an author and editor of several books and a full-time lecturer in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the international journal Foundations […]

Graduate students Marco Messina (Maynard Group), Lucas Morrill (Garg Group), and Adam Simon (Houk Group) have been named the 2017 Senior Foote Fellows.   The Christopher S. Foote fellowship in Organic Chemistry recognizes organic students’ accomplishments in graduate studies and research as well as their performance on the Qualifying Examination for the Ph.D. degree. The recipients, […]

An article by Professor Neil Garg and former graduate student Dr Tejas Shah appeared in the “In the Classroom” section of the newest Nature journal.   BACON stands for Biology and Chemistry Online Notes and it is a series of online learning modules that help students learn organic chemistry – a subject which is considered […]

Professor Catherine Murphy (University of Illinois) gave the first Inorganic Nano-Materials Seminar on Friday, February 10th. The seminar, titled “Gold Nanocrystals: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Ecology” was sponsored by MilliporeSigma (formerly Sigma-Aldrich).  It took place in the recently renovated chemistry & biochemistry lecture hall, CS76. After the seminar, an award plaque was presented to Murphy […]