On May 27, 2025, 28 undergraduate students presented posters summarizing their research efforts at the second annual SMACS and UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Undergraduate Poster Session, hosted jointly by the […]

Arismel ‘Ari’ Tena Meza, a soon-to-graduate Ph.D. student in organic chemistry from the Garg group, is profiled in the UCLA Newsroom. From UCLA Newsroom (by Ben Paul): Arismel Tena Meza […]

Professor Michael Jung, UCLA’s Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in Medicinal Drug Discovery, has been selected as one of three alumni from Rice University’s Weiss School of Natural Sciences to […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova is co-leader of a research team that has developed a method for creating cement precursors from carbon dioxide.  Alexandrova holds the Charles W. Clifford Jr. Chair in […]

In advance of delivering the Academic Senate’s 130th Faculty Research Lecture on June 6, 2025, Professor Michael Jung, the Walter and Shirley Wang Professor of Medicinal Drug Discovery, is featured […]

This year, 16 chemistry and biochemistry graduate student researchers received the 2025-2026 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). The fellowship is intended to support doctoral students who are within […]

On May 16, 2025, Professors Hung V. Pham and Martin-Louis Riu participated in a lighthearted fundraiser for the Saving Hearts Foundation (SHF), where students could throw whipped cream pies at […]

Alumnus Dr. Tejas Shah (Ph.D. ’16, Garg group), now a Discovery Research Scientist with Corteva Agriscience, is named to the “Talented Twelve” by C&EN in recognition of his work automating chemistry […]