June 5, 2023 | Professor Anne Andrews and graduate student Noelle Mitchell co-author an impactful new paper published in Science
The seven-year research collaboration with researchers at Columbia University marks an important step in a long-awaited aptamer revolution. One cold day in October 2016, Anne Andrews, UCLA professor of chemistry & biochemistry and psychiatry, found herself in Jyväskylä, Finland…
June 2, 2023 | Alexander Spokoyny named next Chemistry & Biochemistry Chair
Professor Alexander Spokoyny has been named the next Chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. “I am delighted to announce that Professor Alexander Spokoyny has agreed to serve as chair of the department from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2026,” said...
June 1, 2023 | Professor Keriann Backus Receives 2023 UCLA Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award
Professor Keriann Backus receives a 2023 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award, which honors the considerable dedication of faculty mentors who have served as effective research mentors to undergraduate students. As part of the UCLA Undergraduate Research...
May 31, 2023 | Bioengineers Develop Spider Web-Inspired Method to Fabricate Conductive Fibers
Using a new process that mimics how spiders spin silk, a UCLA-led team of multi-institutional bioengineers has developed a simple process to make soft, electrically conductive fibers at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. In a study published as a cover story...
May 19, 2023 | UCLA team uses artificial intelligence to predict landslides
Professor Louis Bouchard’s group and UCLA collaborators have developed a new approach for predicting landslides that decouples the analytic power of DNNs from their complex adaptive nature in order to deliver more useful results. A professor of chemistry and...
May 17, 2023 | UCLA Engineering Professor Named Editor-in-Chief of Major Scientific Journal
Timothy Fisher, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has been named editor-in-chief of the ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The influential...
May 15, 2023 | Quantum physics proposes a new way to study biology – and the results could revolutionize our understanding of how life works
Over the past few decades, scientists have made incredible progress in understanding and manipulating biological systems at increasingly small scales, from protein folding to genetic engineering. And yet, the extent to which quantum effects influence living systems...
May 15, 2023 | CNSI member Jason Cong receives the “Global Industry Leader” award from ChipEx’2023
Jason Cong, UCLA Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and member of the California NanoSystems Institute, has received the "Global Industry Leader" Award from ChipEx'2023. The award is given for "groundbreaking research and development which revolutionized...
May 11, 2023 | Harran group awarded NSF grant to study small molecule protein mimics
Professor Patrick Harran, UCLA’s Donald J. and Jane M. Cram Professor of Organic Chemistry, and his group have been awarded a grant by National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry to study fluorinated peptidomimetics. Research groups around the world are...