Faculty in the News – Heather Maynard

3 years ago

  • Faculty
  • Recent Research
  • Research

Professor Heather Maynard, UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Polymer Science, was interviewed by Drug Discovery News for her pioneering research on poly(trehalose methacrylate) (pTrMA). Her work leverages […]

Faculty in the News – Heather Maynard
September 1

New pieces added to Winstein Commons Art Show

3 years ago

  • Events
  • General

Three new pieces have been added to the ongoing Art Show in the Winstein Commons, which opened in October 2022. In 2004, the Saul and Sylvia Winstein Commons was established […]

New pieces added to Winstein Commons Art Show
August 31

UCLA receives $1 million NSF grant to develop quantum sensors

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professor Prineha Narang leads a UCLA team awarded $1 million by the National Science Foundation’s Quantum Sensing Challenges program. The grant, spanning four years, aims to develop new sensor technologies […]

UCLA receives $1 million NSF grant to develop quantum sensors
August 25

NVIDIA GPU Award for Best GPU Poster

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Undergraduate

Tim Duong, an undergraduate researcher in the Neuhauser group, received the Best GPU Poster Award during the COMP Poster Session at the NVIDIA GPU Award Symposium at the recent American […]

NVIDIA GPU Award for Best GPU Poster
August 25

Organic chem for kids? UCLA program immerses youngsters in notoriously challenging subject

3 years ago

  • Outreach

In partnership with UCLA’s Recreation Summer Camps, Professor Neil Garg and members of his group recently held a week-long summer pilot program called “Chem Kids” to teach children the basics […]

Organic chem for kids? UCLA program immerses youngsters in notoriously challenging subject
August 24

$1M Climate Action Seed Grant

3 years ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
  • Faculty

Professors Richard Kaner and Yuzhang Li from UCLA’s Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering have been awarded a $1M Climate Action Seed grant for their research project, which will create a breakthrough […]

$1M Climate Action Seed Grant
August 23

Undergraduate Student in the News

3 years ago

  • Student
  • Undergraduate

Fourth-year chemistry undergraduate researcher and 2022 Goldwater scholar Laurie Tan (Caram group) is featured in UCLA Magazine. From UCLA Magazine (by Jonathan Riggs): COLLEGE VOICES HER CHEMICAL ROMANCE She loves […]

Undergraduate Student in the News
August 18

Consumers who buy cannabis products containing HHCs could be getting less than they hoped for

3 years ago

  • Recent Research
  • Research

A new study by Professor Neil Garg and former Teacher-Scholar Dr. Daniel Nasrallah, now an assistant professor of chemistry at Roanoke College, is the first to explain how well HHCs, […]

Consumers who buy cannabis products containing HHCs could be getting less than they hoped for
August 15