Organic chemistry graduate students Sarah Anthony, Daniel Estabrook, Kersti Caddell Haatveit, and Stasik Popov have been named the 2019 Senior Foote Fellows.   The Christopher S. Foote Fellowship in Organic Chemistry […]

Kendall Houk, UCLA’s Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry, gave the Andrew Steitwieser lecture at UC Berkeley on January 29, 2019.   In Houk’s lecture titled “Mechanisms and Dynamics of Pericyclic Reactions […]

The new lab coats are made of a highly protective light-weight fabric which was developed by a former UCLA organic chemistry graduate student. The department was able to purchase a […]

UCLA alum Ruth Warner Van Horn, the first female chemistry faculty member at Franklin & Marshall College, passed away on January 20, 2019, at the age of 100. Professor Emeritus […]

Professor Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard) visited UCLA on Wednesday, January 23, 2019, to give the Winter 2019 Distinguished Lecture. Over 300 faculty, students, and researchers attended Aizenberg’s lecture titled “Actuated ‘hairy’ […]

Our Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship Program offers UCLA undergraduates the opportunity to conduct research with a faculty mentor during the summer. Applications for Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Summer Research […]

Nanotech Energy, co-founded by Professor Richard Kaner and Maher El-Kady, clears huge hurdle in the production of high-quality graphene-based materials. Through its proprietary technology, Nanotech Energy, holder of the world’s […]

Former UCLA theoretical physical chemistry professor and alum Dr Andrew Hazi (’64) passed away on December 4, 2018 at the age of 77. Dr. Andrew Hazi received his B.S. degree […]