Professor Richard Kaner wins the ACS Award in Applied Polymer Science in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the science or technology of plastics, coatings, polymer composites, adhesives, and related fields.   Kaner is the first UCLA faculty member to receive the prestigious award. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert) – September 27, 2021: Richard Kaner […]

Professor Justin Caram will play a key role in the development of the new CNSI Quantum Biology Center at UCLA, where students and early-career researchers will be trained, and interdisciplinary research collaborations will be fostered.  The new center at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA is dedicated to interdisciplinary research on the possible quantum […]

A UCLA-led team of engineers and chemists take a major step forward in the development of microbial fuel cells – a technology that utilizes natural bacteria to extract electrons from organic matter in wastewater to generate electrical currents.  A study detailing the breakthrough was recently published in the prestigious journal Science.  Chemistry graduate student Bocheng Cao (Duan/Huang groups) is the first author […]

Hawthorne’s work was groundbreaking in the sciences. A true chemistry pioneer, his work can be seen in every inorganic chemistry textbook today. UCLA Professor Alexander Spokoyny worked in Hawthorne’s lab when he was an undergraduate student at UCLA. Spokoyny, Professor William B. Tolman, Washington University in St. Louis (current editor-in-chief of Inorganic Chemistry) and Professor […]

Professor Thomas Mason and graduate student Tianren Yu have designed and lithographically created novel lock-and-key colloidal polymers. Their paper, entitled “Brownian lithographic polymers of steric lock-and-key colloidal linkages”, has been published in Science Advances on September 3, 2021. Yu is the first-author and Mason is the senior and corresponding author. A dendritic polylithomer of lock-and-key […]

We are sad to report that long-time supporter and alumnus Dr. Myung Ki “Mike” Hong ‘59 passed away on August 18, 2021 at the age of 87. Born in Seoul on June 20, 1934, Dr. Hong came to the United States from South Korea in 1954 as an exchange student and became the first Korean […]

Ph.D. alums Dr. Elias Picazo and Dr. Marco Messina are chosen for the ASBMB’s inaugural 2021 cohort for the MOSAIC program. In August 2020, The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) received a cooperative agreement with the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences to develop and execute a program […]

Distinguished Research Professor Kendall Houk receives the 2021 Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry, one of the most important awards given by the ACS. The Roger Adams (RA) Award Ceremony video can be viewed here. The biannual award recognizes outstanding contributions to research in organic chemistry. Houk was honored at the American Chemical Society (ACS) […]