Alumnus Marco Messina (PhD ’19 Maynard/Spokoyny groups), now a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, is selected for the department’s Norma Stoddart Prize for Exemplary Citizenship and Excellence in Graduate Research. Dr. Marco Messina (pictured above) will give the Norma Stoddart Lecture at UCLA in the Spring of 2022 and will receive a $5,000 […]

Popular chemistry professor and alum Hung V Pham (PhD ’15 Houk group) appears on the TV quiz show Jeopardy, wins second place!. Dr. Hung V. Pham, an Assistant Adjunct Professor of organic chemistry in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, won second place in the episode that aired on February 14, 2022. The episode was filmed during […]

A team of UCLA scientists and engineers, co-led by Professor Anne Andrews, has developed a smartwatch for noninvasive stress biomarker monitoring with real-time feedback. The collaborative effort was led by Professor Anne Andrews (pictured above) in the Departments of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova receives Utah State University’s 2021 Alumni Achievement Award in recognition of her pioneering endeavors. A professor of chemistry and biochemistry and vice chair for undergraduate education, Alexandrova’s laboratory focuses on computational and theoretical design and multi-scale description of new materials.  Excerpted from Utah State TODAY (by Mary-Ann Muffoletto: USU Department of Chemistry […]

Nanotech Energy, the company co-founded by Professor Richard Kaner, is named CES 2022 Innovation Award Winner as the only producer of non-flammable, graphene-based batteries.   The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the world’s largest technology tradeshow. Nanotech Energy’s award-winning batteries utilize the non-flammable electrolyte technology that Professor Richard Kaner and his former graduate students Dr. Brian McVerry […]

Professor Joseph Loo has been named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Loo is among 564 scholars selected as fellows this year. The 2021 fellows will be honored this month in the journal Science and in person later this year, when it is safer to do so. AAAS Fellows in the […]

Exciting collaborative effort from the Duan and Caram labs unlocked the secrets approaching the fundamental performance limit of 2D semiconductor diodes for the first time, providing critical design principles for electronic devices.   Diodes conduct electricity, and electricity is everywhere. Whether it is the solar panels that run our houses, or a camera and TV that […]

Their study showed that bacterium communicate using chemical signals analagous to radio signals in order to help cells join together and form communities. Professor Gerard Wong, a member of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and the UCLA Department of Bioengineering, is the study’s senior author, and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Calvin Lee (Ph.D. ’20, […]