Graduate student Yuto Katsuyama (Kaner group) wins Poster Presentation Award at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s (RSC) 4th Organic Battery Days 2021. At the RSC international conference on organic batteries in Tokyo, Japan, the second-year chemistry graduate student in Professor Richard Kaner’s group, received the award for his poster titled “Prospects of Croconic Acid as […]

World-renowned physical organic chemist and neuroscientist Dennis Dougherty (Caltech) presented the 2021 John D and Edith M Roberts Lecture at UCLA on November 18.   Dougherty is the George Grant Hoag Professor of Chemistry and the Norman Davidson Leadership Chair in the Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology and co-author […]

Professor Ken Houk is elected a foreign member of the CAS in recognition of his scientific achievements and contributions to promoting the development of science and technology in China.  Election to the CAS is one of the highest honors that China bestows on a citizen of a foreign country. This year Houk is among 25 […]

A new type of implantable microprobe for in vivo neurotransmitter detection was developed by a team led by Professor Anne Andrews at UCLA.  The paper titled “Implantable aptamer-field-effect transistor neuroprobes for in vivo neurotransmitter monitoring” was published in the November 24 issue of the journal Science Advances. Andrews is on the faculty of Psychiatry & […]

Team led by Professor Neil Garg awarded the 2021 Horizon Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Education Division.  The Horizon Prize highlights the most exciting, contemporary chemical science at the cutting edge of research and innovation. These prizes are for teams or collaborations who are opening up new directions and possibilities in their field, […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova wins supercomputer access for 2022 from the DOE Office of Science through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.  Through the very competitive award, Alexandrova and her co-investigator Professor Philippe Sautet will receive 2,000,000 Theta node-hours access to the leadership-class supercomputers at DOE’s Argonne and Oak Ridge […]

UCLA Newsroom features in-depth article about Derek Urwin, chemistry PhD student (Alexandrova lab) and LA firefighter, and his efforts to improve firefighter health and safety. Urwin (B.S. ’03 Math, M.S. chemistry ’17)  is a chemistry graduate student in Professor Anastassia Alexandrova‘s group, a longtime Los Angeles firefighter, and director of science and research for the International Association […]

Class project results in an ACS Virtual Issue and an editorial published in The Journals of Physical Chemistry A/B/C and The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.   The ACS Virtual Issue publication, titled “Recent Innovations in Solid-State and Molecular Qubits for Quantum Information Applications”, began as a project for Professor Anastassia Alexandrova’s (pictured above) Winter 2020 Methods of […]