Chancellor chooses chemist to be CNSI director

A UCLA professor of chemistry will bring in a new wave of leadership at the California NanoSystems Institute. Last week, Chancellor Albert Carnesale appointed Fraser Stoddart the new director for CNSI. Stoddart is currently the Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry at UCLA. Roberto Peccei, UCLA vice chancellor of research, said he is pleased with […]

UCLA researcher finds asteroid Hermes to be binary

A UCLA researcher working with a team of astronomers has determined that the asteroid Hermes, recently spotted for the first time since 1937, is in fact two separate rocks travelling on an orbit around the sun. Jean-Luc Margot, a researcher for the department of earth and space sciences, used radar equipment rather than optical observations […]