On Friday, Sept. 18, 2026, faculty, students, researchers, and staff gathered in lecture hall CS50 for the department’s State of the Department address, delivered by Professor Alexander Spokoyny. The address […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is pleased to announce that Distinguished Professor Miguel García-Garibay, Senior Dean of the UCLA College and Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences, […]

Distinguished Professor Michael Jung, UCLA’s Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in Medicinal Drug Discovery, has received the University of California Regents Innovation Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing his decades of […]

Academic excellence, student opportunity and research with real-world impact propel UCLA to the top spot in U.S. News’ rankings From UCLA Newsroom: Key takeaways Just three months ago, more than […]

Professor James Gimzewski and alumnus Dr. Adam Stieg (Ph.D. ’07) helped pioneer a new approach to artificial intelligence in which hardware itself can learn and process information. Their work is […]

Professor Prineha Narang, the UCLA Howard Reiss Chair, is leading a team of researchers developing new artificial intelligence approaches for controlling complex quantum systems. The research, a collaboration with Caltech […]

Long before the modern asthma inhaler became a household essential, the technology behind it was developed with the help of a UCLA chemistry alumnus. In May 2026, the National Inventors […]

Distinguished Professor Paul S. Weiss discusses the evolution of nanoscience and the founding of ACS Nano in an article published in the journal. The article, “A Conversation with Prof. Paul […]