LSAMP and Bridges undergraduate students visit UCLA

11 years ago

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 […]

LSAMP and Bridges undergraduate students visit UCLA
July 30

UCLA iGEM team works to create engineered silk from bacteria

11 years ago

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 […]

UCLA iGEM team works to create engineered silk from bacteria
July 29

Houk and Garg research team develops reaction to break stable amides

11 years ago

Recent Nature publication by Houk and Garg groups featured in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN).                               […]

Houk and Garg research team develops reaction to break stable amides
July 24

UCLA scientist consults with filmmakers to help create movie magic

11 years ago

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 […]

UCLA scientist consults with filmmakers to help create movie magic
July 22

New Class of Materials for Making LEDs

11 years ago

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 […]

New Class of Materials for Making LEDs
July 20

Research addresses global food and bioenergy demands

11 years ago

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 […]

Research addresses global food and bioenergy demands
July 17

BMS Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry

11 years ago

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 […]

BMS Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
July 15

UCLA’s Neil Garg Reveals His Award-winning Teaching Techniques in TEDx Talk

11 years ago

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 […]

UCLA’s Neil Garg Reveals His Award-winning Teaching Techniques in TEDx Talk
July 14