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. For three years, starting July 2016, we will collaborate with Howard University, Spelman College, and Clark Atlanta University to invite six students each summer (two […]

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 Newsroom (By Shaun Mason): When scientists develop cancer therapies, they target the features that make the disease deadly: tumor growth, metastasis, recurrence and drug resistance. […]

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 (ASN) are biologically inspired, self-organizing devices comprising of massively interconnected networks. MANA Satellite Director at UCLA, Professor James Gimzewski talks about how he discovered synaptic […]

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 Nelson – The Bioactives Builder Organic chemist is finding new synthetic routes to Mother Nature’s molecules Hosea M. Nelson never planned on becoming a scientist. […]

Breakthrough in technique development enables non-invasive depth profiling of emerging materials for spintronics. Update – the news of this research was recently reported in UCLA Newsroom. The seach for novel materials that drive innovation in the semiconductor industry has led to the emergence of new research directions. Topological insulators (TIs) form a class of low […]

This summer, four students from two of the best Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) will contribute to UCLA research projects.  Thomas Iylile, Chelsea Nnebe, and Isaac Wilkins from Howard University (Washington, DC) and Nneze Akwiwu from Spelman College (Atlanta, GA) will spend part of their summer working in Chemistry and Biochemistry labs learning about […]

Professor Thomas Mason & former grad student Michael Fryd (PhD Chemistry ’12), Staff Research Chemist, SC Johnson, are co-inventors on a newly issued patent. The patent is titled “Process and System for Reducing Sizes of Emulsion Droplets and Emulsions Having Reduced Droplet Sizes”, US Patent #9000053.  “This is an exciting technology because it enables the […]

Graduate student Rafal Dziedzic (Spokoyny lab) selected for the AFRL 2015 Space Scholars Program to work on the development of devices for space vehicles.  The 1st year Ph.D. student in Prof. Alex Spokoyny’s group will spend the summer doing research as a paid intern at New Mexico’s Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque.   The […]