Professor Raphael Levine has been elected to the Honorary Board of the International Society for Theoretical Chemical Physics (ISTCP).  “We congratulate the new members and thank them for their invaluable […]

Fourth-year BMSB PhD student Colleen Hui from Merchant lab has been selected as a Graduate Scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).  Funded by LLNL, the Livermore Graduate Scholar Program […]

On August 27, at the UCLA Research Showcase and Reception in San Diego, we will toast faculty and alumni who are being honored by the ACS.  The 2019 UCLA Chemistry […]

UCLA alum Robert McMahon (PhD ’85), Professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, selected for prestigious ACS 2019 Arthur C Cope Scholar Award.  The American Chemical Society (ACS) chose […]

Graduate student Katharine “KJ” Winchell (Sarah Tolbert group) has been selected for the 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. Winchell is one of five awardees selected from a large […]

Department Chair Professor Catherine Clarke has been awarded a $100,000 Barth Syndrome Foundation (BSF) research grant to study lipid replacement therapy. Clarke will receive the grant over a two-year period […]

We are sad to report that Geraldine Gregory, widow of alum George Gregory (BA ’42), and longtime supporter of the department, passed away on March 7, 2019. Geraldine was the […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) in recognition of his ground-breaking nanoscience research. Weiss holds a UC Presidential Chair and is […]