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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

The task group will review all available evidence on the long-standing debate concerning which elements should be placed in group 3 of the periodic table.   It will then make […]

The research could eventually help diagnose health problems, including traumatic brain injuries, which Professor Loo currently studies.        Prof. Loo, a biochemist, and others collected saliva samples from […]

The UCLA researchers are working to create a process of capturing carbon from power plant smokestacks to turn it into new building materials. Professor Kaner holds a joint appointment in […]

Alumnus Michael Thompson (PhD ’14, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Yeates Group) has been awarded a 2016 Protein Science Best Paper award. The Best Paper awards are given annually to the first authors […]