In a field of 14,000+ applicants, four Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate students were awarded and five received honorable mention for the 2014 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Emma Baker (Garg Group), Alexandra Mendoza (P. Weiss and Zink Groups), Emma Pelegri-O’Day (Maynard Group), and Jeffrey Vinokur (Bowie Group) were awarded with the 2014 National Science Foundation […]

Rees Garmann (Graduate student in the Gelbart/Knobler Group) has been selected for the 2014 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. UCLA Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching announced the winners on March 31, 2014. Only five such awards are made each year and each award will carry an honorarium of $2,500. A $20,000 Dissertation Year Fellowship […]

Select photos from the 2014 Norma Stoddart Prize Lecture, presented by Dr. Jessica R. Kramer are now available for viewing. Dr. Jessica R. Kramer (NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the UC Berkeley Department of Chemistry and former graduate student in the Deming Lab) was selected by a committee of her peers as the recipient of the […]

Megan Cory, a third-year biochemistry student, launched UCLA’s first Diabetes Day, inspired by her own experiences with the disease.  Daily Bruin (By Angela Cosme): At 14 years old, Megan Cory was eating much more than her age would suggest, but losing an alarming amount of weight. She remembers always being thirsty and being fatigued. After […]

Water Planet Engineering, co-founded by Prof. Ric Kaner, has entered into a joint development agreement with 3M to explore commercial production of a new polymer material with widespread industrial application. D&WR: Water Planet Engineering (WPE) is developing a new class of “polymeric­ceramic” membrane materials, originally developed at UCLA, under the trade name PolyCeraTM. As part […]

Select photos from the 2014 Daniel Kivelson Lecture are now available for viewing. Professor H. Daniel Ou-Yang (Department of Physics, Lehigh University) was the speaker for the 2014 Daniel Kivelson Lecture held on February 24, 2014. Professor Ou-Yang presented a talk titled, “Generalized Sedimentation Equilibrium of Colloidal Suspensions: Einstein’s 1905 Paper on Brownian Motion Revisited.” […]

Dr. Eric Scerri’s A Tale of 7 Elements, received an Honorable Mention in the General Non-Fiction category at the 2014 Los Angeles Book Festival Awards. The private ceremony was held on March 22, 2014 at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood.  A Tale of 7 Elements was among 18 books to receive an honorable mention in the General […]

U.S. News rankings show UCLA’s graduate programs are among best in the country. UCLA Newsroom (By Rebecca Kendall): More than two dozen UCLA professional schools and graduate programs have been ranked among the best in the nation in U.S. News and World Report’s annual survey. UCLA’s impressive showing in the rankings, released online March 11, […]