Professor Anastassia Alexandrova will give the keynote address at the Sunday, March 20th ACS Spring 2022 Keynote Opening Session, which she also organized. The Opening Session, titled “Bonding Through Chemistry,” […]

Team led by Professor Phillipe Sautet discovers how rhodium undergoes structural changes during chemical reactions for production of chemicals and fuels. The study was published in Nature Catalysis and was […]

Professor Luisa de Cola, University of Milano, Italy, was honored at the Hawthorne Lecture on March 2, 2022.  In her lecture titled “Releasing, or capturing, that is the question. Porous […]

We are sad to report alumnus Thomas Douglas Hoffman (PhD ’68, Cram group) passed away on February 23, 2022 at the age of 80. Dr. Hoffman received his Ph.D. at […]

UCLA Newsroom interviews Professor Hung Pham about his recent experience competing on the popular quiz television show Jeopardy!. Dr. Hung V. Pham, an Assistant Adjunct Professor of organic chemistry in the […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group and collaborators have developed an ultrathin electronic membrane that is mechanically robust, highly flexible and stretchable, permeable and breathable, while retaining excellent electronic properties. A UCLA […]

In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth, UCLA Newsroom features in-depth spotlight on materials chemistry PhD student Samantha Mensah, co-founder of the #BlackInChem movement.  Fifth-year graduate student Samantha T. Mensah is working in the […]

Our latest Alumni Spotlight features HN Cheng ‘69, 2021 President of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Dr. H.N. Cheng graduated summa cum laude and with departmental highest honors from the […]