Volleyball legend alumnus Karch Kiraly (’83) is the head coach of the United States women’s indoor volleyball team competing in the 2016 Olympics. Charles Frederick “Karch” Kiraly was an assistant […]

UCLA alumnus & accomplished scientist James Ellis LuValle (BA chemistry ’36, MA chemistry & physics ’37) won a bronze medal in the 1936 Olympic Games. A Phi Beta Kappa in […]

The student researchers who participated in the SPUR eight week programs presented their research at the poster session. The Summer Programs for Undergraduate and Graduate Research Program (SPUR/GR) poster session took […]

The five-day October 2016 workshop in Mexico will honor of Professor William Gelbart’s 70th birthday. The “Self-assembly from atoms to life” workshop will bring together both young and senior scientists […]

Graduate students Michael Corsello (Garg) & Jessica Grandner (Houk) presented their graduate research at the ACS DOC’s annual Graduate Research Symposium.
  The 7th annual American Chemistry Society (ACS) Division of […]

Professor and Vice Chair James Bowie has been named the recipient of the 2017 Anatrace Membrane Protein Award by the Biophysical Society (BPS).  The award recognizes outstanding investigators who make […]

Professor Yi Tang has been selected as the recipient of the Mr and Mrs Sun Chan Memorial Award in Organic Chemistry.  Established in 1998 by Sunney Chan, then director of […]

The discovery by Elena Grintsevich, Emil Reisler, and their collaborators from the University of Texas, was recently featured in Nature Cell Biology.  Numerous cellular functions depend on actin filament (F-actin) […]