Paul Weiss and colleagues have significantly improved organic electronic devices by employing mixed SAMs of the symmetric cage molecules carboranethiols to tune work function of gold and silver contacts with little alteration in surface energy.
Dr. Annette Salmeen has been selected for the 2014 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award. She will accept the award and present the commencement address at the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Graduation Ceremony on June 14, 2014.
Assistant Professor Jorge Torres was interviewed by NBC News affiliate in Bakersfield, where he gave a talk about ongoing research and the importance of private funding for research at the American Cancer Society Relay For Life Survivor Kickoff.
Assistant Professors Louis Bouchard and Margot Quinlan have been selected to receive the 2014-2015 UCLA Faculty Career Development Award.
UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate student, Jeffrey Vinokur (The Dancing Scientist), recently appeared on the Queen Latifah Show and Home & Family to perform experiments and share his passion for science.
UCLA Alumnus and former faculty member, Professor Fred Wudl, is the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry's 2014 Spiers Memorial Award.
DTRA's JSTO in the News highlighted Professor Ken Houk and colleagues' work on the publication, "Acceleration of an Aromatic Claisen Rearrangement via a Designed Spiroligozyme Catalyst that Mimics the Ketosteroid Isomerase Catalytic Dyad."
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate student Steven Lopez (Houk Group) is the student recipient of the UCLA Academic Senate's 2014 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award.
Prof. Anastassia Alexandrova and colleagues have created a unique transition metal hydride in which the hydrogens form a five-membered aromatic ring – something that had been theorized but until now never seen.
Professor Sabeeha Merchant and Professor Paul Weiss have been elected as Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumnus, Prof. Jiaxing Huang (Ph.D., 2004; Adviser: Ric Kaner), has been named a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow.
Professor Richard Kaner's presentation at the 115th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture (held on February 5, 2014) is now available for viewing.
Professor Thomas Mason led the development of a novel method of making multicomponent nanoemulsions to create a deformable liquid delivery vehicle for multiple drugs or other insoluble molecules.
Photos from the Christopher S. Foote Term Chair and The Linda and Fred Wudl Term Chair installation ceremony are available for viewing.
Liz Noey (Graduate Student, Houk Group) has won the 2014 USA Triathlon Collegiate National Championship.
In a field of 14,000+ applicants, four Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate students were awarded and five received honorable mention for the 2014 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Rees Garmann (Graduate student in the Gelbart/Knobler Group) has been selected for the 2014 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants.
Select photos from the 2014 Norma Stoddart Prize Lecture, presented by Dr. Jessica R. Kramer are now available for viewing.
Megan Cory, a third-year biochemistry student, launched UCLA's first Diabetes Day, inspired by her own experiences with the disease.