On May 31, 2023, we celebrated the many accomplishments of our alumni, faculty, postdocs, students, and staff at our annual departmental awards ceremony. A photo gallery from the event can […]

Congratulations to Professor Chong Liu on his promotion to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2023. Professor Chong Liu joined the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty in 2017 as […]

Professor Justin Caram was presented with the 2023 UCLA Alpha Chi Sigma (AXΣ) Glenn T Seaborg Award at the annual AXΣ Seaborg Banquet on May 6. The event, held at […]

The seven-year research collaboration with researchers at Columbia University marks an important step in a long-awaited aptamer revolution. UCLA Division of Physical Sciences (by Ben Paul): The Seven-Year Collaboration That […]

Professor Alexander Spokoyny has been named the next Chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry.  “I am delighted to announce that Professor Alexander Spokoyny has agreed to serve […]

Professor Keriann Backus receives a 2023 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Award, which honors the considerable dedication of faculty mentors who have served as effective research mentors to undergraduate students.  […]

The department welcomes talented mineral chemist Professor Abby Kavner, who will join the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty as a Full Professor on July 1, 2023. Prof. Kavner […]

Professor Louis Bouchard’s group and UCLA collaborators have developed a new approach for predicting landslides that decouples the analytic power of DNNs from their complex adaptive nature in order to […]