Graduate student Devon Widmer (Schwartz group) has been selected for the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. Widmer is one of five awardees selected from a large field of extraordinary nominees. She will be recognized at the annual “Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching”...
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May 25, 2018
On Tuesday, May 15, 2018, over 170 people gathered at the Luskin Center to celebrate the installation of six new endowed Chairs for the Department of Chemistry
May 25, 2018
In Chemistry World, Laurence Lavelle is interviewed about placement of the Group 3 elements in the periodic table, and the d-block and f-block elements
May 23, 2018
The Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science (OCDS) held its second annual Spring Science and Engineering Showcase for local community college students
May 23, 2018
Professor Benjamin Schwartz and graduate student Devon Widmer co-authored the paper featured in a recent issue of the prestigious journal Nature Chemistry
May 18, 2018
Alumnus Harlan Amstutz (’53, MD ’56) has been selected for the 2018 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award.
May 18, 2018
New Endowed Professors in General Chemistry, Albert Courey & Yung-Ya Lin, will work together to enhance the learning experience for life science undergrads.
May 10, 2018
Chemistry & Biochemistry Graduate Student Association (CBGSA) members inspire young chemists at local elementary school science fair.
May 10, 2018
Professor Ellen Sletten was presented with the 2018 UCLA Alpha Chi Sigma (AXΣ) Glenn Seaborg Award at the annual AXΣ Seaborg Banquet on May 5th.
May 9, 2018
On May 8, 2018, Professor Neil Garg and his students hosted a visit to UCLA by 25 science students from Valencia High School.
May 8, 2018
On May 8, 2018, the Houk group hosted a virtual symposium on synthetic organic chemistry featuring talks by Sarah Reisman (Caltech) and Phil Baran (Scripps).
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The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is pleased to announce that on Saturday, November 10, 2018, the 2018 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal will be awarded to Professor Robert Glaeser (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and Nobel Laureate Professor Richard Henderson (MRC Laboratory of...
A photo gallery of the 2018 Chemistry & Biochemistry Departmental Awards Ceremony and a list of the award recipients are now available online.
The annual Departmental Awards Ceremony was held at the...
This new class is open to all Chemistry, Biochemistry, or Chemistry Materials Science Majors
Chem 147 - Careers in Chemistry and Biochemistry Seminar course is a weekly 90 min seminar course that has two key objectives. The first one is to share with Chemistry and...