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). […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]