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 […]
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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 […]
Freshmen to aid DNA research
In April 2003, researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute made a breakthrough discovery involving the DNA sequence of the entire human genome. The discovery means that scientists can now determine the location of genes on DNA strands, and the function of those genes. Now, UCLA freshmen will also be given the chance to […]