The research, which holds promise for the production of biofuels & new pharmaceuticals, was described in paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The paper titled “A synthetic biochemistry module for production of bio-based chemicals from glucose” was published in the April 11, 2016 issue of the journal. Co-authors postdoctoral fellow Dr. Paul H Opgenorth (Ph.D. ’15, […]

OCDS and SMACS students engaged future scientists at the 2nd annual Warner Science Slam on April 18, 2016.   The Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) and the Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science (OCDS) volunteered at Warner Avenue Elementary school’s 2nd Annual Science Slam. Everyone who attended the event received a souvenir UCLA […]

Graduate student Xing Jiang (Garcia-Garibay group) (pictured) is the lead author of the paper featured in Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN). The paper titled “Crystal Fluidity Reflected by Fast Rotational Motion at the Core, Branches, and Peripheral Aromatic Groups of a Dendrimeric Molecular Rotor” was published in the March 14, 2016 issue of the Journal […]

Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Education Neil Garg is one of three UCLA faculty members to be awarded the 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship.              Prof. Garg, whose research involves new reactions catalyzed by non-precious metals, was the one of only two chemists among the group of 178 scholars, artists, and […]

Three chemistry & biochemistry graduate students have received highly competitive 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards.    In addition, four graduate students & two former undergraduate students received NSF Honorable Mentions. Graduate students Priera Panescu (Maynard Group), Bryan Simmons (Garg Group) and Michael Yamano (Garg Group) were awarded a 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP).  […]

3rd year graduate student Mai-Anh Ha (Alexandrova lab) has been selected for a prestigious SCGSR award to work at the NREL this summer & fall quarters.  Mai-Anh’s project is titled “Modelling of High-Performing Pt-Based ORR Catalysts to Facilitate Future Design and Development of New Materials”. Her research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will focus on […]

The team reported on their research, which could ultimately lead to new approaches to repair catastrophic spinal cord injury, in recent issue of Nature. The research is a collaboration between Prof. Deming’s lab and Prof. Michael Sofroniew’s in the UCLA Department of Neurobiology. The paper, titled “Astrocyte scar formation aids central nervous system axon regeneration” was […]

UCSB chemistry professor Thuc-Quyen Nguyen (BS ’97, MS ’98, PhD, ’01 Chemistry, Schwartz group) has received the Humboldt Research Award. The award is presented by Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of her groundbreaking achievements in science research. Prof. Nguyen is internationally known for developing a solution-processable small molecule used in organic solar cells […]