Undergraduate researcher Danielle Cadena (Caram group) has been accepted to the Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholars Program.   “I am thrilled to be a part of the Clare Boothe Luce Undergraduate […]

Paul Weiss and the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital have been awarded a $100,000 St Baldrick’s Foundation grant. Weiss, UC presidential chair and distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, materials science and engineering, […]

The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Professor Juli Feigon its 2019 Founders Award winner. Feigon will be honored at the Society’s 63rd Annual Meeting at the Baltimore Convention Center on […]

Professor Ohyun Kwon, an organic chemist, has been awarded the Boehringer Ingelheim Green Chemistry Award for 2018. Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. As […]

Joyann Barber, a PhD student in Professor Neil Garg’s group, has been awarded a 2018-2019 Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.  The Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) fellowship awardees are […]

The team has discovered a chemical reaction that might someday be used to process petroleum waste into useful compounds. Their paper titled “Teaching an old carbocation new tricks: Intermolecular C–H […]

On July 24, 2018, the department hosted a reception for all undergraduate and high school students who conduct research in faculty labs.  Select photos from the event can be viewed […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova cohosted the 6th International Conference on Chemical Bonding (ICCB) in Hawaii this July. This year’s conference, which was sponsored in part by the UCLA Department of Chemistry […]