Nanette Jarenwattananon (Bouchard group) has been named recipient of a 2015 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Graduate Student Research Award. The UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry graduate student is one of four students selected (among many highly qualified nominees) nationwide for the award. Nanette will receive an all-expense paid trip to the EAS, she will be presented […]

OCDS and SMACS students engage budding scientists at the first ever Warner Science Slam.   The Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) and the Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science (OCDS) volunteered at Warner Avenue Elementary school’s first-ever Science Slam on April 18, 2015. The Science Slam, organized by teachers and parents of […]

Chemistry and Biochemistry graduate students participate in UCLA’s first ever campus-wide Grad Slam competition.                  Paul Weiss group members John Abendroth and Nako Nakatsuka particpated in the competition along with 90 other UCLA students representing 50 different academic programs. The competition involved graduate students giving three-minute talks describing […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate student Matthew Fontana (Schwartz Group) has been named a UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellow. The UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) is an innovative program that creates unique learning opportunities for both graduate teaching fellows and undergraduate students on campus. Through the program, some of UCLA’s very best […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan & his team have reported on the preparation of a graphene hydrogel, which can be easily converted into solvated graphene frameworks. This research was recently published in Angewandte Chemie, a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the German Chemical Society, and was featured on Nanowerk News, an on-line nanotechnology and nanosciences portal. From Nanowerk […]

Paper by Professor Louis Bouchard & PhD student Nanette Jarenwattananon selected by the journal Physical Review Letters as PRL Editors’ Suggestion.  Titled “Motional Averaging of Nuclear Resonance in a Field Gradient” the paper was published in May 12, 2015 issue of Physical Review Letters (PRL), one of the most prestigious journals in the field of physics. […]

Dr. Myung Ki Hong has been selected for the 2015 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award. He will accept the award and present the commencement address at the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Graduation Ceremony on June 13, 2015. “As a proud Bruin, I can trace my success back to my chemistry education at UCLA, which […]

A recently published PLOS Computational Biology article by the Torres lab has been the featured method article on the front page of the journal.                                                               […]