Professor Kevan Shokat (University of California, San Francisco/HHMI) gave the 2017 Donald Cram Lecture on April 27th.  Prof. Kevan M. Shokat’s lecture, titled “Chemical Strategies for Drugging Undruggable Targets in […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry welcomes Justin Caram, who will join our department as an assistant professor of physical chemistry this July. Professor Caram will take up residency […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry welcomes Chong Liu, who will join our department as an assistant professor of inorganic chemistry this July. Professor Liu will take up residency […]

Professor Michael Hagan (Brandeis University) gave the 3rd annual Carolyn & Charles Knobler Lecture on April 24th.  The lecture, titled “Dynamical Assembly Pathways of Viruses and Bacterial Microcompartments“, was well-attended […]

Professor Jacqueline Barton (Caltech) gave the Spring 2017 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, April 19th. Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor […]

Biochemistry professor Juli Feigon will receive the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award at the Protein Society’s annual symposium. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Feigon is being honored with […]

Lavelle recently co-authored two solutions manuals, one for students and one for faculty, to accompany the “Chemical Principles” textbook. The books contain over 1000 pages of detailed solutions to over […]

Many scientists from around the world attended the April 4th UCLA Research Showcase at the American Chemistry Society (ACS) National Meeting in San Francisco.             […]