Professor Paul Weiss and co-workers were awarded a $1 million W.M. Keck Foundation grant to fund research in uses of “compressive sensing.” Professor Paul Weiss, Andrea Bertozzi, director of computational […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate (BS, PhD)  Prof. Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague has been chosen as the next director of the NSF Chemistry Division. Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague is a professor and chair of the […]

The S.T. Li Foundation has awarded Professor Neil Garg with the 2012-2014 Li Prize for Achievements in Science and Technology. The award is given to a distinguished scholar in a […]

The photos and lecture video recordings are available at www.seaborg.ucla.edu.

A video peek inside Richard Kaner’s laboratory at UCLA. Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of graphitic carbon, is among the strongest materials known to man. Can new graphene-based “supercapacitors” — devices that […]

Professor Raphael Levine has accepted a 3-year term and will continue his service to the PNAS Editorial Board. Professor Raphael Levine was invited by Dr. Inder M. Verma (Editor-in-Chief, PNAS) […]

Professor Miguel Garcia-Garibay has won a 2012 Inter-American Photochemical Society Award in Photochemistry.  This award was established in 1988 to recognize outstanding contributions to the advancement of the photochemical and […]

The department recognized the efforts of our accomplished students and faculty at the annual Departmental Awards Ceremony, held on November 19, 2012. In addition to recognizing the efforts of our […]