Photos from the 2015 Seaborg Symposium & Medal Award Dinner honoring Prof. Stefan W. Hell are now available for viewing. The full photo gallery is available here. On Monday, Oct. 19th, Nobel Laureate Professor Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, was honored by the Department of […]

Professor and Vice Chair for Education Neil Garg has been selected as the 2015 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching California Professor of the Year.  On November 19th, Prof. Garg was honored at the U.S. Professors of the Year awards banquet and congressional reception in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Professors of the Year program […]

Professor David Eisenberg was awarded the Legacy Award at the 2nd Annual UCLA Molecular Biology Institute (MBI) Awards Dinner on November 12th. The Legacy Award honors outstanding MBI faculty mentors who have worked to inspire, encourage and guide the next generation of scientists and thought leaders. Professor Eisenberg is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and […]

The UCLA community joined founders Professor Jim Gimzewski and Professor Victoria Vesna to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Art|Sci.  A new book, “Retrospective: A Decade of Intersections” was launched at the November 5th event at the Fowler Museum. The volume catalogs over 200 collaborative and interdisciplinary exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and curricula that have come out […]

A photo gallery of the 2015 Departmental Awards Ceremony and a list of the award recipients is now available online.                        The annual Departmental Awards Ceremony was held at the CNSI auditorium on Friday, November 6th. In addition to recognizing the efforts of our accomplished […]

Professor Jeffrey Zink and graduate student Zilu Li are part of a team that has developed a method for improving antibiotic’s efficacy while reducing side effects.          Their research was published in the October 5th issue of the journal ACS Nano in a paper titled “Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles with pH-Sensitive Nanovalves for Delivery […]

Professor Alexander Spokoyny is co-author of the paper describing the research recently published in the prestigious journal Nature. The paper describes the research team’s development of a reaction that selectively adds aryl groups to free cysteine residues in proteins. The reaction can be used to make myriad modified proteins, including therapeutic antibody-drug conjugates. Titled “Organometallic […]

Biochemistry graduate student Jeffrey Vinokur explains how he combined his two loves: chemistry and hip-hop, in recent issue of UCLA Magazine. Jeffrey’s “Dancing Scientist”, was a product of his passion for science and his interest in dance. What started out with personal YouTube video postings, led to a nationwide tour of his act. Jeffrey has performed […]