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 […]

Professor Michael Jung has been selected to receive the 2015 SCALACS Tolman Medal.             The medal is awarded each year by the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society (SCALACS) in recognition of the medalist’s outstanding contributions to chemistry. Prof. Jung will be presented with the medal at an […]

Roy Tasker, Professor of Chemistry Education at Purdue University, gave the Winter Quarter Instructional Division seminar on February 9, 2016 in Young Hall. In his seminar titled “Research into Practice: Evidence-Informed, Best Practice Visualization for a Deeper Understanding of Chemistry”, Prof. Tasker spoke about his collaborative VisChem project in which he produced a suite of […]

Professor Eisenberg discusses his research on amyloid diseases in a recent article about traumatic brain injury & sports concussions. From UCLA Magazine (by Sandy Siegel ’72) David Eisenberg: Head and Heart Athletes in contact sports, such as football and boxing, where brain injuries are common, are particularly susceptible to such neurodegenerative disorders akin to Alzheimer’s […]

The UCLA Core Technology Gateway website offers scientists an on-line directory of all the cores on campus providing advanced research technology.   The increasingly multi-disciplinary nature of research often leads to the need for core facilities that are not well known to individual researchers. The cores website provides a portal to aid UCLA researchers in […]