On November 7, 2014, the Graduate Student Affairs Office held its first annual Outreach and Diversity Day, co-sponsored by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The event was created as a recruiting mechanism to invite prospective students from diversity-sponsored programs to visit the UCLA campus and learn more about graduate life in our department. Students from […]

Professor Todd Yeates and colleagues have designed a hollow cube out of naturally occurring proteins, something that was previously only possible with DNA. The custom-built protein structures might be used for drug delivery, or as reaction or crystallisation vessels. RSC Chemistry World (By Katrina Kramer): Researchers have been engineering DNA into custom nanostructures (DNA origami) […]

Professor Paul Weiss was featured on the cover story of Japan’s Advanced Institute for Materials Research Magazine and discussed the potential in fusing mathematics and materials science. In the article, Professor Weiss was interviewed with UCLA Professor Stan Osher, and the two discussed about the collaboration between their research groups. Excerpt from the interview AIMR: […]

UCLA is the number 5 university in the subject of chemistry and number 8 overall in the inaugural U.S. News and World Report Rankings – Best Global Universities. The inaugural U.S. News Best Global Universities rankings were produced to provide insight into how universities compare globally. As an increasing number of students are planning to […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate students represented UCLA at STEAM Nation 2014, one of the largest events in LA County celebrating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math education (STEAM). STEAM Nation is an organization aiming to promote science, technology, engineering, arts, and math subjects to elementary and middle school students in the Los Angeles area. STEAM […]

Research by Professor Xiangfeng Duan and colleagues have led to the fabrication of field effect transistors made from molybdenum sulfide, which could lead to more powerful wearable electronics and other devices in the near future. UCLA Newsroom (by Shaun Mason): With their special electronic and optical properties, nanomaterials such as graphene and molybdenum sulfide have […]

Professor John D. Simon, a former postdoctoral scholar in Professor Mostafa El-Sayed’s Group (1983-1985) has been named as the 14th president of Lehigh University. John D. Simon, executive vice president and provost at the University of Virginia, will become Lehigh University’s 14th president on July 1, 2015, the school announced in a news release. Simon […]

The Graduate Division and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry recently hosted a UCLA Field Trip for undergraduate students attending the 2014 Society for Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Conference. Undergraduate students from across the nation visited our department and learned more about our graduate programs. SACNAS’s primary goals are to motivate […]