Professor Anastassia Alexandrova discusses her passion for teaching in a short video made as part of the UCLA Academic Senate’s recognition. The 2019 Distinguished Teaching Awards were announced earlier this year and […]

Graduate student Katherine “KJ” Winchell (Tolbert group) discusses the importance of making chemistry accessible in a short video recorded as part the UCLA Academic Senate’s recognition. The 2019 Distinguished Teaching […]

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has selected Professor Jose Rodriquez as one of 22 recipients for the 2019 Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering.   In being selected as one […]

On the day before instruction officially began, the department held its fifth annual welcome reception for new undergraduate students.   The undergraduate office invited over 400 incoming first-year majors and over […]

To honor Nobel Laureate and UCLA professor Paul Boyer we are establishing an endowment to permanently fund summer undergraduate research fellowships. The department has over 1,000 undergraduate biochemistry majors, and […]

Professor Jorge Torres has been named the 2019 recipient of the ASCB Prize for Excellence in Inclusivity by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). Torres will receive $5,000, will […]

On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, students, postdocs, and faculty gathered for a UCLA Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) “Meet and Greet”.  Laboratory safety is at its best when EH&S professionals […]

Alumnus HN Cheng ’69, USDA Research Chemist, is one of two candidates for the 2020 American Chemical Society (ACS) President-Elect.  Cheng graduated summa cum laude and with departmental highest honors […]