The list of winners and photos from the 2014 Departmental Awards Ceremony are now available for viewing online. On Friday, November 21, we held our annual Departmental Awards Ceremony. In addition to recognizing the efforts of our accomplished students and faculty, we had an opportunity to celebrate our Department’s excellence in teaching and research.  Ceremony […]

Professor Thomas Mason’s LithoPartical Dispersions: Colloidal Alphabet Soup is currently being featured at the Boston Society of Architects’ StereoType art exhibition. StereoType is a groundbreaking exhibition that presents works by an array of 14 established and up-and-coming designers from the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, France, the United States, Israel, The Netherlands, Germany, and Australia. By exploring the […]

Professor Rachelle Crosbie-Watson (Ph.D. 1994, Reisler Group) received the 2014 Lotus Award from Coalition Duchenne for her outstanding contributions to Duchenne muscular dystrophy education, research, and awareness. The award included a $10,000 grant payable to the Center for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at UCLA for Prof. Crosbie-Watson’s education initiatives. The award ceremony was part of the […]

Professor Sri Kosuri’s work with alternative rock band OK Go to help release their newest album, encoded into DNA, has been highlighted by the New Yorker and Popular Science. Popular Science (By Francie Diep): OK Go, the band behind viral music videos like that one with the treadmills, plans to release its newest album encoded […]

Megan Cory, an undergraduate student in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry was featured by KPCC in a radio clip discussing her campaign to fight diabetes. KPCC (By Elizabeth Aguilera): A young woman is diagnosed with diabetes. Her response: conduct a frontal assault against it in society. Megan Cory learned she had the disease around the […]

Professors Ken Houk, Yi Tang, and colleagues have won HPCwire’s 2014 Reader’s Choice Award for the “Best Use of HPC (High-performance computing) Application in Life Sciences”. HPCwire.com: Every year, HPCwire conducts their annual Readers’ Choice Awards to recognize the best and the brightest developments that happened in HPC over the last 12 months. These awards, which […]

New nanoscale protein container developed by Professor Todd Yeates and colleagues could lead to synthetic vaccines and offer a way to deliver medicine inside of human cells. UCLA Newsroom (By Stuart Wolpert): UCLA biochemists have created the largest-ever protein that self-assembles into a molecular “cage.” The research could lead to synthetic vaccines that protect people […]

The new process developed by Professor James Liao and colleagues could reduce carbon dioxide emissions and lower production costs. UCLA Newsroom (By Matthew Chin): Researchers at UCLA have developed a more efficient way to turn methanol into useful chemicals, such as liquid fuels, and that would also reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Methanol, which is a […]