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 […]

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 Experiment, a club started by UCLA undergraduates to help children persue their interests in science. UCLA Lecturer Dr. Heather Tienson agreed to serve as a […]

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 prestigious of all international awards, is bestowed annually in a number of categories by Swedish and Norwegian committees in recognition of academic, cultural and/or scientific […]

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 personal and portable electronics has brought battery technology to the forefront of electronics research. Even as devices have improved by leaps and bounds, the slow […]

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. The lead inventor for the technology is UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry alumnus Dr. Neil King (Ph.D. ’10, Yeates Group) who has led the development of […]