For the first time at UCLA, three members of one department receive Academic Senate Teaching awards. In 2019, teaching awards were garnered by Professor Anastassia Alexandrova, instructor Dr. Jennifer Casey, and graduate student K.C. Winchell, all members of the UCLA Department of Chemistry...
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Mar 30, 2020
PhD student Santiago Vargas (Alexandrova group) is UCLA's first student to receive a prestigious Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Mar 30, 2020
The department’s first Teacher-Scholar, Sharon Neufeldt, now an assistant professor at Montana State University, has won a prestigious 2020 Cottrell Scholar Awa
Mar 26, 2020
Vice Chair of Undergraduate Education Professor Anastassia Alexandrova offers some ideas of how our undergraduate students can stay productive at home.
Mar 26, 2020
Professor Jiaxing Huang (PhD ’04, Kaner group) has received funding to develop a new self-sanitizing medical face mask that deactivates viruses on contact.
Mar 24, 2020
JoAnne Stubbe’s 2020 Priestly Medal address “The road less traveled—for love of detection, discovery, and all things radical in nature” is now online.
Mar 23, 2020
Professor Ken Houk’s group joins with the Scott Denmark group at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to explain the autocatalytic Soai reaction.
Mar 17, 2020
On March 1, 2020, we celebrated the official installation of Professor Michael Jung as the UC Presidential Chair in Medicinal Chemistry.
Mar 16, 2020
We are sad to report that Lyda Boyer, widow of Nobel Laureate Emeritus Professor Paul Boyer, passed away on Monday March 9, just short of her 101st birthday.
Mar 12, 2020
Professor James Bowie receives the 2020 Stein and Moore Award in recognition of his protein science research and service to the scientific community.
Mar 12, 2020
PhD student David Boyer (Eisenberg group) is one of 20 young scientists chosen for inaugural class of the UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows
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The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry seeks applications for temporary lecturer positions to teach lower division Organic Chemistry courses during the Fall 2019 and Winter 2020 Quarters.
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Thanks to generous support from alumni and friends, we are transforming our former library into an innovative space, enhancing the UCLA experience for thousands of Bruins. The Centennial Collaboratory will provide students and faculty with a fully-equipped study lounge,...