This summer, instructor Dr. Frank Ow taught chemistry to high school students through the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) at UCLA program. Established by the California […]

Distinguished Kenneth N. Trueblood Professor Neil Garg was recently interviewed for the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Heritage Project. According to the Caltech website, the Caltech Heritage Project “captures, conveys, […]

Entropic Biosciences, Inc., a start-up biotech company founded at UCLA in Professor Paul Weiss’ group based on the thesis of alumnus Dr. Amir Nasajpour (Ph.D. ’23), is one of only […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has given $19.8 million in renewal funding for the BioPACIFIC MIP, a UCLA–UC Santa Barbara collaboration advancing biobased materials through synthetic biology, chemistry, automation, and […]

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry welcomes emerging pedagogy scholar Jazmin Aguilar-Romero, who joined the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Teaching Professor on July 1, 2025.  “The division of physical […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry has appointed Professor Sarah Tolbert as the inaugural Charles and Carolyn Knobler Endowed Term Chair, effective retroactively to July 1, 2025. The Charles […]

The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry welcomes forward-thinking chemical educator Dr. Patrick Wilson, who joined the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Teaching Professor on July 1, 2025. “We are pleased […]

This article was originally published by UCLA Samueli Newsroom. Yu Huang, a professor of materials science and engineering, as well as chemistry and biochemistry, and holder of the Traugott and Dorothea […]