chemistry

Richard F. Heck, a UCLA alumnus who captured the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry, died Friday in Manila after suffering for years from a number of illnesses, including prostate cancer and diabetes. He was 84.

UCLA is the world’s No. 8 overall and the No. 2 U.S. public institution in the 2016 U.S. News and World Report Best Global Universities rankings.

The advance could eventually lead to vastly improved technology for capturing solar energy.

Eric Scerri, a lecturer in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is featured in the PBS documentary 'The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements, which premieres Wednesday, Aug. 19. 

Todd Yeates, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, has been awarded the 2016 American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Delano Award for Computational Biosciences.

Material is easier and less expensive to make than the current standard, but had not previously been shown to emit light.

The chemistry professor engages students in part by showing how the subject is relevant to everyday life, medicine and even pop culture.

A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks — an advance that could redefine the way scientists approach solar cell design.

New research sheds light on the Earth’s climate over geologic time scales.

Eric Betzig, 2014 Nobel Laureate in chemistry, will speak at UCLA on June 1 about new optical imaging technologies for biology.

Findings suggest that similar isotopic signatures could exist for many biological processes, including some that are difficult to observe with current tools.

Biochemistry student Jeffrey Vinokur is the Dancing Scientist, whose zany science experiments have been featured on national TV shows, on YouTube and in school auditoriums.

UCLA researchers found that although Prozac and Lexapro were thought to work the same way, the medications did not produce the same long-term changes in anxiety behavior.

Getting into Neil Garg's course "was like ‘The Hunger Games,'" said one student. "I know people who waited two years to get in. People have celebratory dances when they learn they’re enrolled."

Identifying enzyme catalysts that improve the speed and efficiency of the drug-production process can be a major boon. Figuring out exactly why a particular enzyme works so well, UCLA researchers say, is an altogether different quest.

Arieh Warshel, who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will present a chemistry seminar Monday, April 21.

An award-winning teacher, professor Neil Garg has managed to find new ways to reach the next generation of scientists taking his no-nonsense organic chemistry class.

“I’ve always been interested in carrying out experiments to try to understand how things work,” said professor Richard Kaner, who knew from childhood that he wanted to become a scientist.