Professor Miguel García-Garibay, Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences and Senior Dean of the UCLA College, has been awarded the 2025 ACS James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry.
The ACS Northeastern Section established the award, which encourages and rewards outstanding contributions to physical organic chemistry, in 1963 in commemoration of James Flack Norris. It is maintained from the income of the section’s Norris Fund and is distinct from the ACS Northeastern Section’s James Flack Norris Award, a local section award for outstanding achievement in the teaching of chemistry.
A member of UCLA’s faculty for more than three decades, García-Garibay serves as dean of the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences and senior dean of the UCLA College. He served as the chair of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry from 2012 to 2016, as the department’s vice chair from 2005 to 2008, and as diversity advisor for the Division of Physical Sciences from 2009 to 2012. A passionate scholar and scientist, García-Garibay’s research group has earned worldwide recognition in the fields of organic photochemistry, solid-state organic chemistry and physical organic chemistry.
García-Garibay has been elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Mexican Academy of Sciences.
Previous UCLA faculty to receive the award are Professor Saul Winstein (1967) and Professor Ken Houk (1991).
Penny Jennings, UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry, penny@chem.ucla.edu.
