On April 24, 2024, faculty, students, alumni, and visitors gathered for the inaugural UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry’s “Chemistry for a Healthy World” event, featuring brief research talks by […]

We are sad to report that Professor Emeritus Frank Adrien Louis Anet passed away at the age of 97 on May 18, 2024.   A memorial tribute to Professor Anet was […]

Professor Prineha Narang is part of a team of researchers from UCLA and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory whose research has, for the first time, captured atomic-level images of a chemical […]

On May 21, 2024, we celebrated the many accomplishments of our alumni, faculty, postdocs, students, and staff, at our annual departmental awards ceremony. Each year at this event, we gather […]

On Saturday, June 15, 2024, 37 of our students received Ph.D. degrees, 16 students received Master of Applied Chemical Sciences degrees, five Departmental Scholars received Master of Science degrees, and […]

In early May 2024, Professor Omar Yaghi from the University of California, Berkeley, visited UCLA to deliver the Mautner Perkins Memorial Lectures, including a scientific lecture and a public lecture. […]

Professor Craig Merlic is profiled in an in-depth article in the Hertz Foundation News. Merlic was a Hertz Fellow during his organic chemistry graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin. […]

We are sad to report that former faculty member Dr. Edward William Graham (Northwestern State University of Louisiana) passed away on March 25, 2022. Graham was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana, […]