From UCLA Newsroom (by Jonathan Riggs): Prineha Narang, UCLA professor of physical sciences and of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded a nearly $2 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for a four-year project to create new probes using entanglement and quantum photonic states. Breakthroughs in science frequently combine new theoretical […]

Invizyne Technologies, a company that began in Professor Emeritus James Bowie’s lab at UCLA, has recently completed a successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) and is now listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange. In 2016, Bowie, along with postdoctoral researchers Dr. Tyler Korman and Dr. Paul Opgenorth (Ph.D. ’15, Biochemistry), developed a promising approach called “synthetic […]

Professors Xiangfeng Duan and David Eisenberg have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2024 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations. Comprising nearly 7,000 researchers from around the world, the list is compiled by the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate based on quantitative and qualitative data collected from scholarly publication of […]

Third-year graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Erika López-Lara (P. Weiss group) has been accepted into the new UCLA Science & Food Future of Food Fellows Program. The inaugural UCLA Future of Food Fellows program supports UCLA graduate students with aspirations to make cellular agriculture a feasible complement for animal protein production through scientific research. As […]

The UCLA Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) receives an outstanding performance rating from the ACS – a rarity among Tier 1 research universities – as well as a 2023-2024 Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award. UCLA SMACS received the award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Green Chemistry Institute (GCI), which is given […]

Ph.D. student Thando Khumalo (NarangLab) is only the second UCLA student in nearly 20 years to receive the prestigious DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. A chemistry Ph.D. student, Khumalo joined Professor Prineha Narang’s group in the Spring of 2024.  She graduated with a B.A. in Computer Science and Italian with a minor in Chemistry from […]

Professor Osvaldo Gutierrez (B.A., M.S. ’09, Houk group), currently a Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University, will be joining the UCLA faculty on January 1, 2025 as a Full Professor of Chemistry and as the inaugural Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) Senior Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Faculty Director […]

Graduate students Andrew Goring (Clubb lab), Eric Pang (S. Clarke and Rodriguez labs), and Miranda Villanueva (Backus lab) have been selected as 2024-2025 Fowler Fellows. About the 2024-25 Audree Fowler Fellows in Protein Science Andrew Goring is a sixth-year graduate student in the Biochemistry, Molecular, and Structural Biology department mentored by Professors Robert Clubb and Joseph […]