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 […]

Graduate students have formed an official student chapter of the Electrochemical Society at UCLA (UCLA-ECS). Founded in 1902, the Electrochemical Society is a learned society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of electrochemistry and solid-state science and technology.  Prof. Sarah H. Tolbert is the founding faculty mentor, and the […]

UCLA is ranked #6 in chemistry and #10 in biology/biochemistry in the recently released 2016 US News and World Report Best Global Universities rankings. UCLA is ranked #8 in the world and the #2 public institution in the United States. The survey ranked 750 universities from 57 nations using 12 weighted indicators to measure each […]