In Chemical & Engineering News article, Professor Neil Garg discusses mentoring with columnist and Emory chemistry professor Jen Heemstra. Garg is the inaugural holder of the Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed […]

We are sad to report that UCLA cosmochemist Emeritus Professor John Wasson passed away peacefully at the age of 86 on September 7. Wasson was a professor of geochemistry and chemistry […]

Professor Chong Liu receives a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA or R35) award from the NIH/NIGMS. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National […]

Stony Brook professor Nancy Goroff (PhD ’94), the Democratic nominee for Congress in New York’s First Congressional District, is profiled in C&EN.  Professor Nancy Goroff received a Ph.D. in chemistry […]

Former Houk group undergraduate researcher Professor Osvaldo Gutierrez, University of Maryland, named one of Chemical and Engineering News’ Talented 12. The Talented Twelve list, created by the American Chemical Society’s […]

Professor Jose Rodriguez was recently interviewed by science journalist Robyn Williams about his infectious rope-like prion proteins research. The Australian Broadcasting Corp’s popular “The Science Show” is considered by many […]

Professors Paula Diaconescu and Chong Liu are part of the Center for Integrated Catalysis with the goal to mimic biological systems in the development of synthetic chemical catalytic processes. The […]

Several members of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry are featured in a special centennial issue of the UCLA College Magazine.   The issue “celebrates the College’s defining moments over […]