In Nature researchers led by UCLA Professor David Eisenberg and Tamir Gonen (HHMI Janelia) offer closest look yet at core of α-synuclein aggregates.   The paper titled “Structure of the toxic […]

Faculty, lab instructors, consultants, staff, and graduate students came together this week for the first Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry lab summit. The goal of the September 14th meeting was […]

UCLA alumna Professor Danielle Laraque-Arena (BS Chemistry ’76, MD ’81) has been appointed the first woman president of the SUNY Upstate Medical University. Currently the chair of the pediatrics at […]

Professors David Eisenberg, Ken Houk, Ric Kaner, and Jeff Zink have been selected for the prestigious Thomson Reuters 2015 list of Highly Cited Researchers. Highly Cited Researchers 2015 identifies the […]

Experiments by UCLA Professor Thomas Mason and former UCLA postdoctoral researcher Kun Zhao, PhD, have revealed a new mechanism for glass formation. Prof. Mason and Dr. Kun Zhao, a former postdoctoral […]

The UCLA Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science (OCDS) has been awarded the 2015 Western Region ACS Stanley Israel Award. Alumni Dr. Steven A. Lopez (Ph.D. Chemistry ’15, Houk Group) […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been elected to be the Chair of the Theory subdivision of the PHYS Division of the American Chemical Society.  The main responsibility of the theory subdivision […]