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 […]

Research on graphene supercapacitors conducted by Professor Richard Kaner’s group was recently highlighted in a widely used chemistry textbook.   Editors Raymond Chang and Kenneth Goldsby recognized the Kaner lab’s work on carbon-based supercapacitors in the latest edition of “Chemistry” 12e, published by McGraw Hill this year.   Excerpt from page three of the textbook: “Before […]

UCLA lecturer and author Eric Scerri quoted in British newspaper about the possibility that elements may need to be reordered. Dr. Scerri is the author of the book 30-Second Elements: The 50 Most Significant Elements, Each Explained in Half a Minute, which has been translated and released in France, Canada, Russia, Netherlands, Australia, Taiwan, and China. […]

Professor Sriram “Sri” Kosuri has been named 2015 Searle Scholar.                                                 One of 15 young scientists in the chemical and biological sciences to be named 2015 Searle Scholars, and the only from […]

Professor Paula Diaconescu has been awarded the 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.              Prof. Diaconescu, whose research involves the design and synthesis of complexes with specific geometric and electronic properties, was the only chemist among the group of 175 scholars, artists, and scientists from the United States and Canada to receive the […]