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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The department has been awarded a substantial grant to fund a UCOP-HBCU initiative that will bring talented students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to the department over the summer. […]

Professor Jeff Zink and colleagues’ publication of “Mesoporous silica nanoparticle delivery of chemically modified siRNA against TWIST1 leads to reduced tumor burden”, was recently featured by the UCLA Newsroom.  UCLA […]

Professor James Gimzewski was recently featued on the cover of the latest issue of Convergence, a magazine published by the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), Japan. Atomic Switch Networks […]

Professor Hosea Nelson has been named to the inaugural class of “C&EN’s Talented 12”, which highlights path-paving young researchers and entrepreneurs who are using chemistry to solve global problems. Hosea […]