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 Maimonides Medical Center in New York City and a pediatrics professor at Yeshiva University, Prof. Laraque-Arena will begin her role as president of the State […]

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 world’s most influential contemporary researchers across 21 scientific fields. Over three thousand researchers earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated […]

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 researcher in Prof. Mason’s group who is now an assistant professor at Tianjin University in China, have created the first experimental realization of a colloidal glass […]

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) and Dr. Crystal E. Valdez (Ph.D. Chemistry ’15, Alexandrova Group) will accept the award on behalf of OCDS at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Western […]

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 Chair consists of bringing and soliciting suggestions for new theory symposia at the American Chemical Society (ACS) meetings, thus directing the general trends in the […]

The Materials Research Society (MRS) has named Professor Ric Kaner as the 2015 MRS Medalist. Professor Kaner is being honored for his “discovery of efficient methods to synthesize water dispersible conducting polymer nanofibers and their applications in sensors, actuators, molecular memory devices, catalysis, and the novel process of flash welding”. The MRS Medal is awarded […]

The department hosted a reception for 35 visiting undergraduate scholars from several summer research programs who have conducted research in faculty labs.  On August 13, 2015, the visiting scholars gathered with their mentors (faculty and lab members) at the reception in the future Young Hall Student Center. Prior to the reception, several of the scholars […]