Graduate student Devon Widmer (Schwartz group) has been selected for the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. Widmer is one of five awardees selected from a large field of […]

Houk team joins Nobelist Feringa and Wolf Prize Laureate Fujita to discover a Winstein/Roberts non-classical cation in an unexpected place. The latest issue of the Journal of the American Chemical […]

Professor Richard Kaner and PhD student Cheng-Wei Lin are part of the UCLA Carbon Upcycling team which has developed an eco-friendly substitute for concrete. The team of engineers, scientists and […]

Saturday, April 14th was the annual Freshman Bruin Day for 2018 for newly admitted undergraduate students. The Chemistry & Biochemistry booth had student volunteers from Alpha Chi Sigma {AXE} and Student […]

Professor Paul Weiss discussed the future of nanoscience and nanotechnology in an interview with science journalist Robyn Williams on the popular radio program. The Australian Broadcasting Corp’s “The Science Show” […]

University of Kentucky Professor Emeritus Robert Guthrie, former Cram postdoc and UCLA chemistry lecturer, died on February 13, 2018 at the age of 81. After graduating from high school, Guthrie […]

A photo gallery of the 2018 Departmental Awards Ceremony and a list of the award recipients are now available online.    The annual Departmental Awards Ceremony was held at the […]

The mechanisms by which muscone and analogs produce the aroma known as musk, a common component of perfumes, were reported by the research team. UCLA Visiting Scholar Professor Eric Block (University […]