Tag Archive for: chemistry

Image of Samantha Mensah, UCLA doctoral candidate in chemistryReed Hutchinson/UCLA

She’s a catalyst: UCLA doctoral candidate Samantha Mensah, co-founder of BlackInChem

Samantha Mensah co-founded BlackInChem to help…
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Professor’s invention is a kid-friendly introduction to the chemistry of light

Ellen Sletten’s Photonbooth gives L.A. students a picture-perfect…
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How a COVID-19 vaccine arrived quickly and without compromise

Bruin Carly Daniels, who leads the Pfizer scientists…
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Chemist Anastassia Alexandrova receives Max Planck-Humboldt Medal

Anastassia Alexandrova, UCLA professor and vice chair of…
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Richard Kaner wins award from American Chemical Society

  Richard Kaner, the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Professor…
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UCLA’s 2020-2021 Beckman Scholars Announced

Undergraduate researchers Sasha Gill-Ljunghammer (Tolbert…
Photos of UCLA College professors Jose Rodriguez and Erik Petigura.

Two UCLA College faculty members awarded 2020 Sloan Research Fellowships

Two young UCLA College professors, and two others, are among…

Biochemists discover new insights into what may go awry in brains of people with Alzheimer’s

More than three decades of research on Alzheimer’s disease…
New simulations suggest that carbon (C) routinely bonded with iron (Fe), silicon (Si) and oxygen (O) deep within the magma ocean that covered Earth when it was young.

New insights about carbon and ice could clarify inner workings of Earth, other planets

  Most people behave differently when under extreme…

Best in snow: New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall

UCLA researchers and colleagues have designed a new device…