Professor Osvaldo Gutierrez was recently awarded the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), by President Biden. The award is highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government […]

Distinguished Professor Michael E. Jung, the Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in Medicinal Drug Discovery,  has been named the recipient of the prestigious 2025 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Award […]

Professor Richard Kaner, the UCLA Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation, has been named the 2025 ACS Basolo Medalist by the Department of Chemistry faculty at Northwestern […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry has appointed Professor Anastassia Alexandrova as the inaugural Charles W. Clifford Jr. Chair in Chemistry & Biochemistry, effective retroactively to July 1, 2024. […]

Professor Craig Merlic’s latest safety paper, “Challenges of Legacy Chemicals”, was selected as an Editor’s Choice article by the American Chemical Society. Of over 53,000 articles published annually in more […]

Distinguished Professor Michael E. Jung, the Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in Medicinal Drug Discovery, is named the recipient of the 2025 Edward E. Smissman Award, given by the American Chemical […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been honored with the 2024 Quantum Bio-Inorganic Chemistry (QBIC) Prize for her groundbreaking research on the role of electrostatics in enzymatic catalysis. This prestigious award recognizes […]

A new paper titled “Layered hybrid superlattices as designable quantum solids” by Professor Xiangfeng Duan, postdoctoral researcher Dr. Zhong Wan and co-authors, recently published in Nature, introduces an exciting advancement […]