Origin of Life Favors One ‘Hand’ of Chemical Building Blocks?

A recent paper in Nature Communications, co-authored by UCLA researchers including CBE Faculty Irene Chen, in collaboration with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, offers new insights into the mystery of life.

Carlos Morales-Guio receives NSF CAREER Award

Carlos Morales-Guio receives NSF CAREER Award

Carlos Morales-Guio, an assistant professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, has received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the agency’s highest honor for faculty members in the early stages of their teaching and research careers.

Smart Manufacturing Symposium

Smart Manufacturing Symposium

CESMII’s Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center (SMIC) at UCLA will host a Smart Manufacturing Symposium at Mong Auditorium on Friday September 29.  The UCLA SMIC is focused on development of predictive technologies for application in SM, and pressure testing CESMII’s...

Jane Chang Selected as Harvard Radcliffe Institute 2023-2024 Fellow

Jane Chang Selected as Harvard Radcliffe Institute 2023-2024 Fellow

Jane P. Chang, Professor of UCLA, was named a member of Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s 2023–2024 class of fellows, a cohort whose projects contend with the urgent, the beautiful, and the vast: from reckoning with the challenges of climate change to creating digital...