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 […]

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 recommendations to the Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) so that they might make an official recommendation as to whether group 3 should consist […]

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 healthy patients. From the data collected, the researchers, including those at the UCLA School of Dentistry, were able to identify one thousand proteins present in […]

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 the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry as well as in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering. In 2015 he received the Materials Research Society […]

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 of the top two papers published during the preceding year in the Protein Society’s prestigious academic journal Protein Science. Usually the winners are the authors […]