Professor Norman “Lou” Allinger (University of Georgia), pioneer of molecular mechanics, PhD with Donald Cram at UCLA, dies at age 92. Norman L. Allinger was born in 1928 in Alameda, […]

A generous donation to create a term chair in UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry has been pledged by Professors Randy Schekman and Sabeeha Merchant. We are extremely pleased to […]

Organic chemistry professor Ken Houk is co-author of a newly released textbook titled “Organic Chemistry: Theory, Reactivity and Mechanisms in Modern Synthesis”. Houk’s co-author is Professor Pierre Vogel of the […]

This year we welcome two new Teacher-Scholars and bid farewell to four former Teacher-Scholars.  In July 2019, Dr. Marlius Castillo (Cram Teacher-Scholar) and Dr. Anish Nag (M.S. ’15, Ph.D. ’19) […]

Alumnus Dr Dimitri Bikos (PhD ’18) and Professor Thomas Mason have created a new technique that uses gel electrophoresis to collide bands of reacting species. Their paper, entitled “Band-collision Gel […]

Professor Keriann Backus is the recipient of a prestigious 2019 Young Faculty Award from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Backus is an assistant professor of biological chemistry […]

Undergraduate researcher Paige Curson (Kaner group) has been accepted to the Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholars Program.   A chemistry junior, Curson conducts research in the lab of UCLA inorganic […]