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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]