Alumna Corrie Kuniyoshi (PhD ‘05, Foote) named Manager of the ACS Student Experiences Team and will oversee the ACS Scholars and ACS Project SEED programs. The ACS Scholars Program awards renewable scholarships to undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups in the chemical sciences, majoring in chemistry-related disciplines, and intending to pursue chemistry-related careers. The ACS […]

Professor Richard Kaner is elected as a 2021 NAI Fellow by the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. According to the NAI announcement, this professional distinction is bestowed upon academic inventors who have “demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made […]

Houk group alums Katherine (Kat) Bay and Hung Pham team up to allow UCLA students to run computations remotely as part of Chem 30A and Chem 30B.  A member of the Education Team at Schrödinger, Dr. Katherine Bay collaborated with Dr. Hung Pham and the undergraduate students in his Chem 30A (Organic Chemistry I: Structure […]

A new approach to general C(sp3)–H functionalization was recently developed in the group of Professor Abigail Doyle at UCLA. The paper detailing this discovery, titled “A general strategy for C(sp3)–H functionalization with nucleophiles using methyl radical as a hydrogen atom abstractor” was published on November 29th in Nature Communications. Doyle is the Saul Winstein Chair of […]

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 & […]