2023 National Academy of Inventors

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professors Xiangfeng Duan and Paul S. Weiss have been elected as fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The academy’s fellowship honors inventors at academic institutions who have “demonstrated […]

2023 National Academy of Inventors
December 12

INCITE 2024 Award

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty
  • Research

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova wins supercomputer access for 2024 from the DOE Office of Science through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.  Only 75 of […]

INCITE 2024 Award
December 8

Fall 2023 Distinguished Lecture by Professor David Christianson

3 years ago

  • Events

Professor David Christianson (University of Pennsylvania), a distinguished figure in the field of biological chemistry, visited UCLA on November 16, 2023, to give the Fall 2023 Distinguished Lecture. Select photos […]

Fall 2023 Distinguished Lecture by Professor David Christianson
December 1

Chemists use oxygen and copper “scissors” to cut carbon bonds and create new, valuable molecules at lower cost

3 years ago

  • Faculty
  • Recent Research
  • Research

Professor Ohyun Kwon and her research group have developed a groundbreaking method which utilizes oxygen and copper to efficiently break carbon-carbon bonds in hydrocarbons and convert them into valuable amine […]

Chemists use oxygen and copper “scissors” to cut carbon bonds and create new, valuable molecules at lower cost
November 28

Highly Cited Researchers 2023 List

3 years ago

  • Faculty
  • Rankings

Professors Xiangfeng Duan, David Eisenberg, and Richard Kaner have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2023 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on […]

Highly Cited Researchers 2023 List
November 15

Experimental brain-like computing system more accurate with custom algorithm

3 years ago

  • Alumni & Friends
  • Faculty
  • Recent Research
  • Research

A team of researchers, led by Professor James Gimzewski and alumnus Dr. Adam Stieg (Ph.D. ’07 Gimzewski), has created an experimental computing system physically modeled after the biological brain, which […]

Experimental brain-like computing system more accurate with custom algorithm
November 14

gBSA Trivia Night and Costume Contest

3 years ago

  • Events
  • Graduate
  • Student

The UCLA graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) held a Trivia Night and Costume Contest on October 27, 2023. The UCLA Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) is a student-run organization whose goal is […]

gBSA Trivia Night and Costume Contest
November 9

2023-2024 Audree V. Fowler Fellows in Protein Science

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Graduate
  • Student

Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology (BMSB) graduate students Alexandra Turmon (Backus lab) and Cindy Wang (S. Clarke and C. Clarke labs) have been selected as 2023-2024 Fowler Fellows. Each Fellow […]

2023-2024 Audree V. Fowler Fellows in Protein Science
November 8