Adjunct professor of chemistry, longtime fire fighter, and UCLA alumnus Derek Urwin (B.S. ’03 Math, M.S. ’17, Ph.D. ’22 Chemistry, Alexandrova group) is featured in UC Newsroom article about UC-backed […]

Professor Sarah Tolbert is the Center Director of the new Center for Strain Optimization for Renewable Energy (STORE) at UCLA, which aims to make sodium ion batteries a marketable commodity.  […]

UCLA’s newest innovative organic chemist Professor Soumitra Athavale presented the 2023 John D. and Edith M. Roberts Lecture at UCLA on October 10.   Prior to joining the UCLA faculty as […]

Professor Danielle Schmitt receives prestigious $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.  The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, disbursed over a […]

An in-depth article about the department’s Teacher-Scholar program was recently featured in UCLA’s student-run paper, the Daily Bruin. From the Daily Bruin by Kai Nikchevich: UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry […]

Several UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty members have most cited publications in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) for 2020-2021. A highly cited JACS publication has garnered a […]

Professor Prineha Narang, a pioneer in quantum matter research at UCLA, has been elected as a Young Alumni Trustee of her alma mater, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Narang […]

Professor Joseph Loo is the recipient of the ACS 2024 Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry. This national American Chemical Society (ACS) […]