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 […]

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 […]

Chemistry undergraduate researcher Paul Chong (Spokoyny group) has been named a Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar.  The prestigious program matches chemistry and chemical engineering students to internships at Fortune […]

Professor Heather Maynard awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant, allowing her to visit New Zealand to provide her expertise in biohybrid polymeric materials. “I am thrilled to be awarded a Fulbright […]

Graduate student Elaine Qian (Spokoyny lab) is one of ten female students nationally to receive the ACS Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Travel Award. “I’m very grateful to the WCC and […]

Renowned theoretical chemist Professor James Skinner (University of Chicago) gave the 2017 Daniel Kivelson Lecture on February 6th.  Skinner’s lecture titled “Supercooled Water: Three-Body Interactions, IR Spectra in No Man’s […]

Professor Heather Maynard has been elected a 2017 Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE) Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Maynard’s election reflects the recognition of the many impactful […]

Professor Kimberly Prather (UC San Diego/Scripps) gave the Winter 2017 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture on Monday, January 23rd. Prof. Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at Scripps Institution […]