The UCLA Student Chapter of ACS participated in E3 (Ecology, Economy, Equity) and UCLA Sustainability’s Annual Earth Day Fair at UCLA’s Intramural Field. On April 22, 2013, students from the UCLA Student Chapter of ACS hosted a table promoting Green Chemistry at the UCLA Earth Day Fair.  The group provided fellow Bruins and community members with […]

The UCLA Student Chapter of ACS hosted a tour of Chemistry & Biochemistry facilities for members of the ACS Student Chapter from Santa Monica College on April 15, 2013. The visiting students from Santa Monica College toured Professor Richard Kaner’s lab facilities in Molecular Sciences Building and the California NanoSystems Institute.  The tours were led […]

Professor James K. Gimzewski was highlighted in Nature Magazine’s feature about scientists who are merging together their love of science and art. Nature.com: Hybrid art–science efforts have gained support in recent years. Some institutions see them as a means of enhancing creativity and innovation, and a growing number are creating cross-disciplinary centres. Examples include the Media […]

Adam Goetz (Graduate Student, Neil Garg lab) has been awarded the 2013-14 Charles E. and Sue K. Young Graduate Student Award. This special tradition, begun in 1981, recognizes graduate students for their distinguished academic performance and service to the University and community. As part of the award, Adam Goetz will receive a prize of $10,000.  Adam […]

An article on Professor Richard B. Kaner’s research was the cover story for Electronic Weekly for the week of April 10-16, 2013. The article for the cover story, UCLA graphene supercapacitors could revolutionise storage, can be read by visiting here.

On April 13th, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry welcomed thousands of future Bruins and their families for UCLA’s Annual ‘Bruin Day’ event.  The event was designed to provide prospective students with an opportunity to visit UCLA and find out more about academics and life on campus.   The Chemistry & Biochemistry booth was hosted by Denise Mantonya, Tim […]

A team led by Professor Carla Koehler have discovered a new agent that may be useful in strategies to remove pluripotent stem cells that fail-to-differentiate from their progeny, tissue-specific cells. From Examiner.com: UCLA scientists continue to make advances in stem cell research. A problem with the use of stem cells is the possibility of malignant […]

A new study by Professor James K. Gimzewski and collaborators suggests that the elasticity of physical matrix used for growing cardiomyocytes outside the body may be critical to the success of cardiac tissue engineering efforts. From ACN Newswire: Adult heart muscle is the least regenerative of human tissues. But embryonic cardiomyocytes (cardiac muscle cells) can […]