Professor Ellen Sletten has been selected for one of UCLA’s highest teaching honors, the 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award for Senate Faculty. Sletten is one of six campus-wide recipients chosen by […]

UCLA Professor William Gelbart explains his transition from theoretical physical chemistry to experimental molecular biology, and discusses his life, research and career, in an extensive 2021 interview with science historian […]

Graduate student Yuto Katsuyama (Kaner group) has been named one of MIT Technology Review’s list of Innovators Under 35 (IU35) Japan for his development of a “next-generation battery” that does […]

Third-year organic chemistry graduate students Jacob Kim (Kwon lab), Andrew Palmer (Backus lab), and Arismel Tena-Meza (Garg lab) have been named the 2023 Senior Foote Fellows. The Senior Foote Fellowships […]

Professor Vinothan Manoharan (Department of Physics, Harvard University) gave the 7th annual Carolyn & Charles Knobler Lecture on February 27, 2023. The well-attended lecture, entitled “The Self-Assembly of Simple RNA […]

Professor Neil Garg is the 2023 recipient of the Mani L. Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science, an annual award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science […]

Professor Ellen Sletten has been selected for a 2023 Rising Star Award by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Women Chemists Committee (WCC) for her work on new approaches to imaging […]

We are sad to report that Adela Roberts, widow of UCLA biochemistry professor emeritus Roberts Smith, passed away on December 31, 2021. In May, 2022 Adela’s family had a small […]