The UCLA Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has selected Professor Neil Garg as one of six campus-wide recipients of the 2014 Distinguished Teaching Award. The goal of the UCLA Academic Senate Teaching Award is to increase awareness of UCLA’s leadership in teaching and public service by honoring individuals who bring respect and admiration to the […]

The Los Angeles Times featured a profile of Professor James Gimzewski, highlighting his research on developing robotic systems that mimic the structure and function of the human brain. The Los Angeles Times feature by Thomas Curwen titled, “Taking a step toward a machine that can think,” is available at latimes.com. Short Biography   James Gimzewski is a […]

Professor Jeffrey Zink and colleagues have developed an innovated technique using light to carry chemotherapy safely to cancer cells. UCLA Newsroom (By Shaun Mason): The research findings by UCLA’s Jeffrey Zink, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Fuyu Tamanoi, a professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, and their colleagues were published online Feb. […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been appointed to the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group). Professor Alexandrova will serve as an editor in the area of Chemical Physics, along side Professor Alexei Kornyshev (Imperial College of London). Anastassia Alexandrova (Credit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA) About Scientific Reports Online and open access, Scientific Reports is a primary […]

Professor Sabeeha Merchant has been selected as editor-in-chief of The Plant Cell, the premier research journal in plant biology. UCLA Today (by Stuart Wolpert) Professor Sabeeha Merchant, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, will serve as editor-in-chief for five years, starting Jan. 1, 2015. Founded by UCLA life scientist Bob Goldberg, The Plant […]

PBS NewsHour is calling for feedback from STEM Undergraduate and Graduate Students and Postdocs on why they chose to focus on basic research. Submissions are due by March 14, 2014. From PBS NewsHour: To All Those Interested in Basic Research, All too often basic research is misunderstood, yet it truly is the foundation for so […]

Dr. Gordon Cragg (former postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Theodore Geissman) was named as the recipient of the Excellence in Botanical Research Award. Dr. Cragg is a former research director of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI), where he was involved in the NCI’s search for new cancer medicines from plants and other […]

A Tale of 7 Elements has been reviewed by Angewandte Chemie, Metall, and Journal of Chemical Education. UPDATE (July 29, 2014) Science magazine has recently reviewed, A Tale of 7 Elements. The review is available here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6194/262.2.full.pdfExcerpt: In A Tale of 7 Elements, philosopher of science Eric Scerri provides an expert perspective on the history of the periodic table, focusing […]