Professor Tim Deming and Professor Sebastien Leccomandoux, from the University of Bordeaux, have organized the inaugural UBordeaux-UCLA Workshop on Polymers, to be held January 31-February 1 at the Getty Villa, Malibu and UCLA. The workshop is meant to highlight similar interests between the scientific departments of UCLA and University of Bordeaux, to introduce opportunities for […]

Richard (Dick) Gillespie, an alumnus and long-time staff member in the department, passed away in his sleep on Friday, January 25 at the age of 90. Dick was an extremely important member of our department for 31 years. He started working in our solutions preparation lab in 1951, while also finishing up his BS, which […]

Professor Raphael Levine will be awarded the 2012 Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Gold Medal for his outstanding contributions to the field of chemistry. Professor Levine will be honored for his fundamental contributions for understanding chemical reactivity on the molecular-scale with special reference to the role of energy and for discovering that the methods of thermodynamics […]

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 and applied mathematics at UCLA and a professor of mathematics, Mark Cohen, director of the National Institutes of Health–funded UCLA Semel NeuroImaging Training Program and […]

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 department of chemistry at the University of California, Davis.  Gervay-Hague’s career in science started with her attendances at “California community colleges and state universities before landing in […]

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 scientific or technological field at a public university and is delivered as an unrestricted research grant. The award honors Professor Shu-tian Li (1900 – 1988), […]

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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 can be charged and discharged a hundred to a thousand times faster than batteries — revolutionize electronics and other fields? In the future, will you […]