Craig Merlic, head of the University of California Center for Laboratory Safety (UCCLS), led the investigation of a lab explosion at the University of Hawai’i.  The March 16, 2016 blast caused a postdoctoral researcher to lose an arm and about $800,000 in damage to the lab in the Hawaiʻi Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) at UH Mānoa. The […]

The significant invention by Yves Rubin & coworkers was recently reported in the first issue of Chem, a new journal published by Cell Press. Prof. Yves Rubin and his coworkers conceived and executed a new synthetic approach to graphene nanoribbons, which are considered the next generation material for semiconductor logic or optoelectronic applications, but still […]

The second in our Faculty Spotlight series of newly tenured faculty (Bouchard, Quinlan & Torres), this week’s feature focuses on Professor Margot Quinlan. Quinlan obtained her B.A. at Reed College in 1991. She then spent two years in Germany doing research at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg. She went to graduate school at the University of […]

In the coming weeks we will be posting a series of articles about the many changes happening at the UCLA Molecular Instrumentation Center (MIC). Housed and managed by the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the MIC is a campus-wide, state-of-the-art core facility that enables the use of modern instrumentation in molecular characterizations. The purpose […]

After decades of heavy use, UCLA’s Court of Sciences lecture halls, otherwise known as CS76, CS50 and CS24, are now undergoing major renovations. As part of the renovation, which is to be completed by the end of the summer, workers will refurbish existing seating, build additional seats, add new audiovisual screens, whiteboards and lecture podiums, […]

Professor James Liao has been appointed the 11th president of Academia Sinica, Taiwan’s collection of national laboratories.  One of the worldwide most appreciated experts in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology, Liao obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the National Taiwan University in 1980. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in […]

Professor Richard Kaner is one of 57 distinguished members of the American Chemical Society (ACS) who have been named as 2016 ACS Fellows.   The prestigious ACS Fellows Program recognizes and honors members of the American Chemical Society for their outstanding achievements in and contributions to the science and the profession as well as exemplary […]

To honor our three newly tenured faculty we will feature a profile of our new associate professors each week, starting with Professor Louis Bouchard.   In the following weeks we will profile Profs. Margot Quinlan and Jorge Torres.  Bouchard obtained a bachelor’s degree in physics and business management from McGill University in Montréal, Canada, a […]