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 […]

Led by Professors Gerard Wong and Andrea Kasko, UCLA Scientists have engineered antibiotics that effectively attack persister cells, which are responsible for making bacteria resistant to new drugs. UCLA Newsroom (By Shaun Mason): We face an urgent global health problem because scientists are not developing new antibiotics as fast as bacteria are developing antibiotic resistance. […]

UCLA Newsroom wrote a feature on Chemistry & Biochemistry undergraduate student, Emily Gordon, who is seeking to compete in the 2016 Olympics. UCLA Newsroom (Emilia Barrosse): Less than a year ago, Emily Gordon was a junior biochemistry major at UCLA aiming to become a lab researcher. Now, she’s being scouted to compete in the 2016 […]

Liana Hie (Garg Lab) has been awarded the 2014-15 American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship, sponsored by Amgen. The 2014-15 fellowship recognizes outstanding third and fourth year graduate students in organic chemistry and provides a stipend for $26,000, which includes $750 for travel to the 2015 National Organic Symposium (NOS) where […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry alumnus, Dr. Satya Majeti, has been honored by the American Chemical Society (ACS) with the 2014 Heroes of Chemistry Award. Since 1996, the ACS Heroes of Chemistry program has recognized chemical scientists whose work in various fields of chemistry and chemical engineering has led to the successful innovation and development of […]