Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been selected to receive the prestigious Max Planck-Humboldt Medal, which honors extraordinary scientists outside Germany with outstanding future potential. The medal is awarded jointly by Germany’s Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): Chemist Anastassia Alexandrova receives Max Planck-Humboldt Medal Anastassia Alexandrova (Reed Hutchinson/UCLA) Anastassia […]

Professor Abigail Doyle wins the ACS EJ Corey award for her outstanding original and insightful contributions to organic synthesis. Since 2004, the American Chemical Society (ACS) has honored young investigators with the award, which is sponsored by the Pfizer Endowment Fund. Doyle will be honored at the Elias J. Corey Award for Outstanding Original Contribution in […]

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 […]