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.  […]

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): […]

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 […]

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 […]

Underserved school children with a passion for science and technology will compete in science fair at UCLA Ackerman Union this weekend. The science fair is being organized by The Bruin […]

UCLA Chem & Biochem is proud to sponsor lectures by each of the three 2014 Chemistry Nobel Laureates: Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell & William Moerner.  The Nobel Prize, the most […]

Professor Richard Kaner’s group creates new energy storage medium by combining two nanomaterials. Excerpt from UCLA Newsroom (by Shaun Mason) : The dramatic rise of smartphones, tablets, laptops and other […]

Professor Todd Yeates and former graduate student Neil King are co-inventors on newly issued patent. The patent is titled “General Method for Designing Self-Assembling Protein Nanomaterials”, US Patent # 8969521. […]