Dec 15, 2021
Professor Heather Maynard has been awarded the Macrogroup UK Medal for Outstanding Achievement in recognition of her accomplishments in the field of polymer science.
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Dec 9, 2021
Exciting collaborative effort from the Duan and Caram labs unlocked the secrets approaching the fundamental performance limit of 2D semiconductor diodes for the first time, providing critical design principles for electronic devices.
Dec 9, 2021
Alumna Corrie Kuniyoshi (PhD ‘05, Foote) named Manager of the ACS Student Experiences Team and will oversee the ACS Scholars and ACS Project SEED programs.
Dec 9, 2021
Professor Richard Kaner is elected as a 2021 NAI Fellow by the National Academy of Inventors, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
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Dec 8, 2021
Houk group alums Katherine (Kat) Bay and Hung Pham team up to allow UCLA students to run computations remotely as part of Chem 30A and Chem 30B.
Dec 7, 2021
A new approach to general C(sp3)–H functionalization was recently developed in the group of Professor Abigail Doyle at UCLA.
Dec 1, 2021
Graduate student Yuto Katsuyama (Kaner group) wins Poster Presentation Award at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s (RSC) 4th Organic Battery Days 2021.
Dec 1, 2021
Nov 24, 2021
Professor Ken Houk is elected a foreign member of the CAS in recognition of his scientific achievements and contributions to promoting the development of science and technology in China.
Nov 24, 2021
A new type of implantable microprobe for in vivo neurotransmitter detection was developed by a team led by Professor Anne Andrews at UCLA.
Nov 23, 2021
Team led by Professor Neil Garg awarded the 2021 Horizon Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry's Education Division.
Nov 22, 2021
Professor Anastassia Alexandrova wins supercomputer access for 2022 from the DOE Office of Science through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program.
Nov 22, 2021
UCLA Newsroom features in-depth article about Derek Urwin, chemistry PhD student (Alexandrova lab) and LA firefighter, and his efforts to improve firefighter health and safety.
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Nov 18, 2021
Class project results in an ACS Virtual Issue and an editorial published in The Journals of Physical Chemistry A/B/C and The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.
Nov 17, 2021
Department Chair Professor Neil Garg wins the 2022 Mukaiyama award in recognition of his contributions to synthetic organic chemistry.
Nov 16, 2021
Four UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2021 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations.
Nov 12, 2021
Dr Carly Daniels (PhD ’14 BMSB, Loo group) discusses her COVID-19 vaccine research at Pfizer in recent UCLA Newsroom Magazine article.
Nov 10, 2021
We are sad to report that alum Willy Dietrich Kollmeyer (PhD ’67 Trueblood group) passed away at the age of 82 on September 9, 2021.
Nov 9, 2021
Biochemistry alumnus Carlos Galván ‘19 is featured in UCLA Newsroom article celebrating first-generation scientists at UCLA.
Nov 2, 2021
UCLA’s free science festival, Exploring Your Universe, returns in a virtual format on Sunday, Nov 7, from noon to 3 pm.
Nov 2, 2021
Led by PhD student Amir Nasajpour in Professor Paul Weiss’s lab, the research engineered spiky rose thorn-like nanomaterial that establishes great antibacterial activity to slow herpes simplex virus 1 and 2 (HSV).
Nov 2, 2021
We are pleased to announce that UCLA’s new Master of Applied Chemical Sciences (MACS) Program is currently enrolling students for the Fall of 2022.
Nov 1, 2021
Professor Carla Koehler's glass artwork, inspired by her mitochondrial research and the natural beauty of California landscapes, is featured in the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation's newsletter.
Oct 26, 2021
Professor Miguel García-Garibay has been selected to join the Mexican Academy of Sciences as a corresponding member.
Oct 22, 2021
UCLA’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Professor Emily Carter has been named the inaugural senior strategic advisor for sustainability science at the DOE Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.