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 […]

Discovery by UCLA research team, led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, could lead to a new class of materials for making LEDs. The study titled “Electric-field-induced strong enhancement of electroluminescence in multilayer molybdenum disulfide” was published in a recent issue of the journal Nature Communications. The research team includes current and former members of Prof. Duan’s […]

Brainstorming by some of the world’s top plant scientists, including two from UCLA, results in the ideas described in paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The paper titled “Redesigning Photosynthesis to Sustainably Meet Global Food and Bioenergy Demand” was published in the July 14th issue of PNAS. The […]

Liana Hie, who will soon begin her fifth year of graduate studies, has been chosen to receive a 2015-2016 Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Graduate Fellowship. Fellowship awardees, who receive a $35,000 award, are chosen not only based on their academic performance and research achievements, but also for their demonstrated potential for significant future accomplishments. The fellowship […]

Organic chemistry professor turns a ‘feared’ subject into one that inspires students. UCLA Newsroom (Stuart Wolpert): Neil Garg admits that the mere mention of organic chemistry tends to strike fear in the hearts of undergraduates — and even medical doctors he meets often say it was their least favorite college class. So how has the […]