Undergraduate student researcher Alejandra “Ali” Gonzalez (Spokoyny group) has been accepted into the prestigious UC LEADS program.  The University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced DegreeS (UC LEADS) program is one of the most prestigious fellowships awarded by the University of California system. Each year this honor is awarded to up to nine UCLA upper-division […]

Michael Jung led the UCLA research team whose discoveries resulted in the development of a leading prostate cancer drug. Prof. Jung worked with Drs. Charles Sawyers and Howard Scher of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to develop the anti-androgen drug enzalutamide (Xtandi), which has been found effective in slowing or stopping the progression of […]

Artwork by Physical and Life Science undergraduate majors enhances the new Young Hall Student Center and Lounge. By Julie Heinrich (UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry Student Affairs Officer) Thanks to a suggestion by Dr. Maria Dzialo (Ph.D. ’15 biochemistry and molecular biology, Steven Clarke group), the undergraduate office invited undergraduate students to submit original science-inspired artwork […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer & historian Eric Scerri leads a plea from several distinguished chemists for one of the new elements to be named after Henry Moseley. Henry Moseley was the English physicist who established that atomic number provided an improved way in which to order the elements than the use of atomic weight. Dr. Scerri […]

Professor Neil Garg has been selected to receive the 2016 Thieme–IUPAC Prize.                           The Thieme–IUPAC Prize is presented every two years on the occasion of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry – International Conference on Organic Synthesis (IUPAC–ICOS).  The prize is […]

Assistant Professor Alexander Spokoyny has been awarded a 2016 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. The award recognizes outstanding new faculty who excel in research, experience, & academic leadership. Prof. Spokoyny was recognized for his work on developing new materials and synthetic methods using boron cluster compounds.  For over 25 years, the award has been given to help […]

Tolbert Group collaboration with Dunn Group from UCLA Engineering named one of the top five most downloaded papers for the journal in February 2016.  The work of researchers from Prof. Sarah Tolbert’s group and Prof. Bruce Dunn’s group in the UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering has been given the distinction of “Best of Advanced Energy […]

Professor Richard Kaner is part of a research team to be awarded a competitive research grant as part of UCLA’s Sustainable LA Grand Challenge. Using membranes to pull nutrients out of wastewater in treatment plants could be the wave of the future, but the membranes can get clogged. The research team has developed a new […]