UCLA Division of Physical Sciences

	Dr. Nicolas Christou, Lecturer in Statistics, awarded a 2008 Copenhaver Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology.
UCLA Professors Joan Valentine (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Ned Wright (Physics and Astronomy) elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More >>
American Mathematical Society Honors UCLA Math Department The American Mathematical Society (AMS) has presented its second annual Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department to the UCLA Department of Mathematics (more...)
	UCLA Mathematics Professor Terence Tao awarded the prestigious Fields Medal.
UCLA Physicists elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society: John Cornwall, for pioneering work in understanding non-perturbative aspects of gauge theories. Eric D’Hoker, for contributions to Quantum Field Theory and String Theory, including string perturbation theory, supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and AdS-CFT correspondence.
Astronomers report an unprecedented elongated double helix nebula near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
	Chemists Report Progress in Quest to use Hydrogen as Fuel for Cars and Electronic Devices
UCLA Scientists See and Analyze 650-Million-Year-Old Fossils Inside Rocks in Three Dimensions – a First, With Implications for Finding Life on Mars.
	Fraser Stoddart's new research -- the design and construction of a molecular nano motor, powered only by sunlight -- to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
UCLA Astronomers and Colleagues led by Professor Andrea Ghez Use Laser to Take Clearest Images of the Center of the Milky Way.
	UCLA Researchers Angela Kopp and Sudip Chakravarty publish "Criticality in Correlated Quantum Matter" in the inaugural issue of Nature Physics.
	UCLA Biochemists Provide First Structural Details of Mysterious Bacterial Microcompartments

	Untying a Math Mystery — YOU HAVE to hand it to mathematicians, they can turn anything into a formal problem...
	Math Will Rock Your World — A generation ago, quants turned finance upside down. Now they're mapping out ad campaigns and building new businesses from mountains of personal data...
	National Academy of Science publishes new book on competing in the global marketplace, "Rising above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future".
	Is the US losing its competitive advantage and innovative edge? Lewis M. Branscomb, visiting faculty member of UC San Diego, discusses this possibility in a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece, "Innovate or Perish".
	A precarious position at the top for US higher education, per op-ed piece in the Boston Globe by Charles M. Vest.
	Business Leaders Seek to Double College Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
	What Can America Do About Mathematics? by Tony Chan Former UCLA Dean of Physical Sciences outlines the challenges of increasing math literacy in the United States.
	With its California Teach program, the University of California will put a thousand new science and math teachers annually into California classrooms by the year 2010. See HERE for details of California Teach at UCLA.