The PBS documentary “The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements” features on-camera interviews with lecturer Eric Scerri who served as historical consultant for the show. Airing on Wednesday, August 19th, the three one-hour episodes tell the story of seven of history’s most important scientists, including UCLA alumnus Glenn T. Seaborg (B.S. Chemistry ’34), as […]

A team of UCLA researchers led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan have recently developed a novel material for use in flexible, printed electronics. High Performance Thin Films from Solution Processible Two-Dimensional Nanoplates The researchers from the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Materials Science started by carefully growing two-dimensional nanoplates and then suspending them in solution […]

The department would like to congratulate Professor Paula Diaconescu on her promotion to the rank of full professor effective July 1, 2015. The rank of (Full) Professor is the highest rank that a professor can achieve (other than a named or administrative position) and is conferred upon sustained and distinguished track record of scholarly achievement […]

The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked UCLA #2 amongst the best public American universities. Published annually, the CWUR is the largest and most comprehensive academic ranking of world universities. Schools are ranked based on a methodology involving eight criteria, including the quality of education, quality of faculty and alumni employment. From Business Insider […]

Graduate Division and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry hosted LSAMP & Bridges students from Cal State Long Beach to promote STEM education. The Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program ’s primary goals are aimed at increasing the quality and quantity of students successfully completing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) baccalaureate degree programs, and […]

Biochemistry undergraduates are in the team which will enter their project in the 2015 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition.  Daniel Cancilla, Jessica Huang, Vinson Lam, Julian Lutze, and Phillip Nguyen are part of the 18 member UCLA iGEM team made up of undergraduate students with majors across the physical, life, and engineering sciences who […]

Recent Nature publication by Houk and Garg groups featured in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN).                                            The research team of Liana Hie, CalTech postdoc Dr. Noah Fine Nathel (former Garg Group student), Tejas Shah, Emma […]

Professor Paul Weiss was interviewed by digital news magazine Mashable about his early contributions to the newly released movie Terminator Genisys. The film is the fifth installment in the Terminator franchise. It follows a soldier in the war against an artificial general intelligence seeking to destroy the human race. The collaboration with Paramount Pictures was […]