Professor Ellen Sletten receives prestigious $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.   The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, established in 2007, supports unusually […]

Team from UCLA, USC, Caltech and Harvard, led by UCLA physicist Wesley Campbell, awarded 2.7 million 3-year DOE Quantum Information Science Research Award.  With this funding, faculty across chemistry and […]

Undergraduate student researcher Ila Castro (Spokoyny group) has been accepted into the prestigious UC LEADS program.  The University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced DegreeS (UC LEADS) program is one […]

The new website pays tribute to former long-time Chemistry & Biochemistry non-ladder faculty and staff who have been key contributors to the department. Click here to view the website. “Our staff plays an […]

Professor Thomas Mason and alumnus Dr Po-Yuan Wang have created lithographically pre-assembled monolayers of mobile Brownian shape-designed colloidal tiles. Their Letter, entitled “A Brownian quasi-crystal of pre-assembled colloidal Penrose tiles”, […]

Alumnus Robert (BS ’42) and Mae Carter have donated $100,000 to support the Women in Chemistry Initiative in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. The initiative is meant to […]

Professors Hosea Nelson & Jose Rodriguez have been awarded a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35 Grant from the NIH/NIGMS. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), […]

More than 80 scientists from around the world attended the International Congress on Theoretical Aspects of Catalysis (ICTAC) at UCLA June 24-28, 2018.  The conference, held at the UCLA Faculty Center, was […]