Susan Baumgarten (BS’ 73, MS’ 76, MBA ’79) was recently appointed to the board of directors for the UCLA Foundation. Susan Baumgarten holds several degrees from UCLA: a bachelor’s in biochemistry and in mathematics, a master’s in electrical engineering, and a master’s in business administration. She is an executive in residence at the UCLA Anderson […]

Professor Sriram Kosuri has received the prestigious National Institute of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award.  He was one of only 50 scientists nationwide selected and was awarded $2.3 million for his project. The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award initiative supports a small number of early stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and […]

Professor Paul Weiss and colleagues have developed a new self-assembly method for fabricating graphene nanoribbons, bringing scientists a step closer to revolutionizing electronics. UCLA Newsroom (by Shaun Mason): First characterized in 2004, graphene is a two-dimensional material with extraordinary properties. The thickness of just one carbon atom, and hundreds of times faster at conducting heat […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate student Jeffrey Vinokur (Bowie Lab) appeared on The Rachael Ray Show and NBC’s Today Show with his performance as the “Dancing Scientist.” Jeffrey Vinokur, also known as the “Dancing Scientist“, recently appeared on The Rachael Ray Show, performing an 8 minute science segment with host Rachael Ray and co-host Nick […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan and colleagues have come up with a new way to grow 2D-layered semiconductor heterostructures whose composition can be controlled by modulating the constituent vapour-phase reactants during growth. Nanotechweb.org (by Belle Dume): Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles in the US and Hunan University in Changsha, China, have come up with […]

The International Conference on Chemical Bonding (ICCB), a conference cofounded by Professor Anastassia Alexandrova, was recently featured by Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) as the cover story for the magazine’s September 22, 2014 issue. The International Conference on Chemical Bonding (ICCB) was started in 2013 by Professor Anastassia Alexandrova (University of California, Los Angeles) and […]

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE WUR) 2014-15 has ranked UCLA number 9 in the world for Physical Sciences. THE WUR Physical Sciences subject rankings consists of a wide range of narrower subject areas, including Chemistry, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Crystallography, Earth Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences, Nanotechnology, Physics, Polymer Science, […]

The UCLA Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) have received the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute’s (ACS CGI) Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award. The ACS CGI Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award promotes student involvement in green chemistry principles and practices, which is essential to the integration of environmentally benign technologies in academia […]