A Tale of Seven Elements by Dr. Eric Scerri has been selected by NewScientist in their list of the best science books of 2013. The full list by NewScientist is available here. First published in 1956, New Scientist is a weekly science and technology magazine read by 778,593 people worldwide each week (NRS Jul 12 – Jun […]

Research by the Zink Group (Tania Guardado-Alvarez, Melissa Russell, and Prof. Jeff Zink) and Schwartz Group (Dr. Lekshmi Sudah Devi and Prof. Ben. Schwartz) was spotlighted by the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). JACS: Light Flips Open a Snap-Top Silica Nanocontainer  (Leigh Krietsch Boerner, Ph.D.) When designing a drug to be used in […]

SMACS represented UCLA at STEAM Nation 2013, one of the largest events in LA County celebrating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math education (STEAM). UCLA Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) was invited to be a part of this event, inspiring nearly 2400 students from the 1st through 8th grades, igniting a passion […]

America Public Media’s “Marketplace Tech” recently interviewed Professor Richard Kaner in a feature story about supercapacitors. Marketplace.org: President Obama made it a priority to invest in advanced battery technology as an investment in the future. But another technology is revolutionizing energy storage today: the supercapacitor. Over at UCLA, Dr. Richard Kaner and Maher El-Kady came up […]

The new Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate Student Association (CBGSA) will be hosting a demonstration booth at this year’s Exploring Your Universe (EYU) event here at UCLA this Sunday, Nov. 17th, 12-5pm! Various campus organizations will be participating (including UCLA Student Members of the American Chemical Society [SMACS] and Alpha Chi Sigma [AXE]) and holding a variety of […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate student Kathy Nguyen (Maynard Group) has been selected for the 2014 Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium. The event is organized by the ACS Polymer Chemistry Division and selection to this symposium is a distinct honor and recognition among the polymer community. The event will be held at the 247th […]

The UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry Department will begin offering some beginning laboratory classes on the weekend next quarter in response to growing student demand. UCLA Daily Bruin (by Kenneth Surajat): The department will offer Saturday classes for the Chemistry 14 lab series – CHEM 14BL and CHEM 14CL – as part of a pilot program […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been appointed to serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. The Journal of Physical Chemistry (Isolated Molecules, Clusters, Radicals, and Ions; Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Astrochemistry; Theory) publishes studies on kinetics and dynamics; spectroscopy, photochemistry, and excited states; environmental and atmospheric chemistry, aerosol processes, geochemistry, and […]