Professor Willard Libby, the first UCLA faculty to be recognized with a Nobel Prize, was recently featured in a historical piece in the New York Times. In 1959 Prof. Libby joined the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and in 1960 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his method to use carbon 14 […]

Photos from the 2015 Christopher S. Foote Symposium events are now available for viewing. The March 12th symposium was organized by former colleagues and members of Prof. Chris Foote’s research group to mark the 50th anniversary of the Foote/Wexler discovery. This anniversary and celebration marks the groundbreaking discovery of the role of singlet oxygen as […]

Garg and Houk research team findings featured in C&EN and JACS Spotlights. The research team of Dr. Travis McMahon, Jose Medina (Garg Group), Dr. Yun-Fang Yang (Houk Group), Bryan Simmons (Garg Group) and Prof. Ken Houk, reported on the generation of the first 3,4-piperidyne and its use as a building block for the synthesis of […]

Graduate student Crystal Valdez, a member of the Alexandrova group, met with lawmakers to explain the value graduate research brings to California. Excerpt from UCLA Newsroom: On April 28, 22 UC graduate students, including four from UCLA who are doing cutting-edge work in fields ranging from engineering to nutrition, [joined] UC President Janet Napolitano at the […]

Professor James Liao has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Prof. Liao has received the honor in recognition of his work on the design of fundamental metabolic pathways to understand how cells manage carbon and energy transduction with application to production of fuels and chemicals using microorganisms and plants. “The news about the honor […]

Lecturers Laurence Lavelle, Sharon Neufeldt, and Eric Scerri are the recipients of the UCLA Unit 18 professional development awards for 2014-2015. UCLA Newsroom (by UCLA Academic Personnel Office): The UCLA Academic Personnel Office recently announced the recipients of the Unit 18 professional development awards for 2014-15. The awards support the professional growth and pedagogical initiatives of […]

Zhao Li (graduate student in the Yung-Ya Lin group) has been selected for the 2015 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. UCLA Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching announced the winners on April 15, 2015. Only five such awards are made each year and each award will carry an honorarium of $2,500. A $20,000 Dissertation Year […]

UCLA researchers develop novel image filtering algorithm.  The algorithm, developed by Professor Louis Bouchard and UCLA Biomedical Engineering graduate student and Bouchard lab member Khalid Youssef, removes image noise while preserving image features with unprecedented fidelity. Invention: Image Filtering Algorithm for Enhanced Noise Removal and Feature Preservation Background Traditional image processing techniques use filtering algorithms based either on […]