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 […]

The department welcomes renowned bioinorganic chemist Professor Hannah Shafaat, who will join the UCLA faculty as a Full Professor on July 1, 2023. Currently a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry […]

UCLA biochemistry instructor and alumnus Dr. Stacie Nakamoto (Ph.D. ’01, Merchant group), aka “The Baking Biochemist”, is a contestant on the latest season of The Great American Baking Show, which […]

The department welcomes talented physical and atmospheric chemist Dr. Victoria “Tori” P. Barber, who will join the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 2023. Drawing on her […]

Professors Neil Garg, Yi Tang and Ken Houk have been awarded a $2M grant over two years from the California Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) to evaluate synthetic and semi-synthetic […]