Professor Neil Garg, an organic chemist, has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) for 2018. The program recognizes outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession, […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Eric Scerri gives opening plenary lecture at the 22nd International Conference on the Philosophy of Chemistry in Bristol.  On Monday, July 16, 2018, Scerri gave […]

Professor Yi Tang is co-leader of the UCLA team of engineers and scientists to discover a new and potentially highly effective type of weed killer. The study titled “Resistance-gene-directed discovery of […]

Hosted by the Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA), series features alumni career talks & research talks by postdocs & PhD students. Starting July 20, 2018, the seminars will take place […]

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposium 10 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF) on July 10, 2018. The CCHF is an NSF-funded Centers for Chemical […]

Professor Sarah Tolbert will serve as Director of the SCALAR center which will seek to increase battery capacity, stability and safety. Tolbert holds faculty appointments in Chemistry & Biochemistry and in the UCLA […]

Photos from the 2018 Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Commencement Ceremony and a video of Dr Harlan Amstutz’s commencement address are now available. At the ceremony on Saturday, June 16, […]

In May and June 2018, symposia in Shenzhen, China, and Vancouver, Canada, honored Ken Houk, the UCLA Saul Winstein Research Professor in Organic Chemistry.  The 2nd International Symposium on Organic […]