J. Fraser Stoddart, a former professor of chemistry and biochemistry, received the Nobel Prize on Oct. 5 for building the world’s smallest machines, including molecular elevators, artificial muscles and molecule-sized computer chips. [Related: UCLA professor emeritus wins Nobel Prize in chemistry] Stoddart powered the machines with a chemical structure he built called rotaxane, which contains a […]
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UCLA professor emeritus wins Nobel Prize in chemistry
James Stoddart, professor emeritus of chemistry and biochemistry, received the 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry, the Nobel Prize Committee announced Wednesday Stoddart, who is currently a chemistry professor at Northwestern University received the prize in conjunction with Jean-Pierre Sauvage, a professor at the University of Strasbourg, France and Bernard L. Fearing at the University of […]
UCLA skilled workers union calls for higher wages in protest
About 40 union members protested Thursday outside the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center to advocate for higher wages. Teamsters Local 2010, the union representing UCLA administrative, clerical and skilled trade workers, argued their wages are below market value and lower than those received by workers at other California institutions. Rick Ramsun, a protester […]
Breast cancer drug found at UCLA leads shift toward personalized care
October is the only month devoted to breast cancer awareness, but researchers at UCLA have breast cancer on their mind year-round. Increasingly, researchers and clinicians at UCLA are shifting towards personalized medicine to improve patient prognoses. Sara Hurvitz, an oncologist at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, said the drug palbociclib, which was clinically tested […]
Bruins discuss methods, plan events to increase student voter turnout
Students campaigning for voter registration held a meeting Saturday to discuss how they will reach their goal of registering 15,000 students on campus to vote before the Oct. 24 deadline. About 15 students met with Rafi Sands, the undergraduate student government external vice president, to brainstorm campaigning strategies for increasing student registration rates in upcoming […]
Diversity requirement continues to receive mixed responses
The diversity requirement has met both student praise and criticism since it was instituted a year ago in fall 2015. To satisfy the diversity requirement, current first-year, second-year and transfer students need to take one course from a list of courses from various diversity-related topics. There are 184 approved courses that fulfill the diversity requirement […]
Donation to help further interfaith discussion on campus
A Los Angeles interfaith organization donated $8,000 to student groups pursuing interfaith work after a meeting Tuesday with seven undergraduates. The students discussed UCLA’s need to generate more rapport between students of different religious faiths. The student representatives attended the Interfaith Leadership Institute conference in August, a two-day conference organized by the Interfaith Youth Core […]