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 […]

In a field of 16,000+ applicants, seven current & former Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate & undergraduate students receive 2015 NSF GRFP Fellowships & two graduate students receive NSF Honorable Mention.  Graduate students Marco Messina (Maynard Group), Kelsey Scharnhorst (Gimzewski Group), Matthew Voss (Schwartz Group), and undergraduate students Avalon Dismukes (Kaner Group) and Christina Jayson (Koehler […]

The UCLA Meteorite Gallery, California’s largest collection of meteorites, has added two large iron meteorites – and both may be touched by the public. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): One of the new meteorites is now the largest in Los Angeles. Weighing 811 pounds, it is more than twice the size of what had […]

Yuxi Zhao (PhD ’15 Chemistry – Weiss group) awarded 2015 Chinese-American Engineers & Scientists Association of Southern California (CESASC) scholarship.  Dr. Zhao will accept the award at the 53rd CESASC annual convention on May 2, 2015, in Cerritos, California.  She will soon join Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, (makers of iPhone, iPad and notebooks) as […]

Professor Shimon Weiss research team awarded $1.35 million grant by Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) to develop nanosensors. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): An international team led by biophysicist Shimon Weiss, who holds UCLA’s Dean M. Willard Chair in Chemistry, has been awarded a prestigious Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) research grant of $1.35 […]