Houk and Garg research team develops reaction to break stable amides

11 years ago

Recent Nature publication by Houk and Garg groups featured in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN).                               […]

Houk and Garg research team develops reaction to break stable amides
July 24

UCLA scientist consults with filmmakers to help create movie magic

11 years ago

Professor Paul Weiss was interviewed by digital news magazine Mashable about his early contributions to the newly released movie Terminator Genisys. The film is the fifth installment in the Terminator […]

UCLA scientist consults with filmmakers to help create movie magic
July 22

New Class of Materials for Making LEDs

11 years ago

Discovery by UCLA research team, led by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, could lead to a new class of materials for making LEDs. The study titled “Electric-field-induced strong enhancement of electroluminescence in […]

New Class of Materials for Making LEDs
July 20

Research addresses global food and bioenergy demands

11 years ago

Brainstorming by some of the world’s top plant scientists, including two from UCLA, results in the ideas described in paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of […]

Research addresses global food and bioenergy demands
July 17

BMS Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry

11 years ago

Liana Hie, who will soon begin her fifth year of graduate studies, has been chosen to receive a 2015-2016 Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Graduate Fellowship. Fellowship awardees, who receive a $35,000 […]

BMS Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
July 15

UCLA’s Neil Garg Reveals His Award-winning Teaching Techniques in TEDx Talk

11 years ago

Organic chemistry professor turns a ‘feared’ subject into one that inspires students. UCLA Newsroom (Stuart Wolpert): Neil Garg admits that the mere mention of organic chemistry tends to strike fear […]

UCLA’s Neil Garg Reveals His Award-winning Teaching Techniques in TEDx Talk
July 14

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry awarded UC-HBCU Grant

11 years ago

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. […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry awarded UC-HBCU Grant
July 13

UCLA and City of Hope Scientists Use Nanoparticles to Shut Down Mechanism That Drives Cancer Growth

11 years ago

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 […]

UCLA and City of Hope Scientists Use Nanoparticles to Shut Down Mechanism That Drives Cancer Growth
July 7