At a small reception on September 24, 2021, we welcomed Professor Abigail Doyle to UCLA and celebrated her appointment as the 4th holder of the Winstein Chair. Doyle joined the […]

UCLA SMACS receives an outstanding performance rating from the ACS, as well as a 2020-21 Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award. The Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) at […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Eric Scerri was recently interviewed by the founder of ChemTalk, a new non-profit organization that aims to promote chemistry.  In a video interview with ChemTalk […]

BMSB PhD student Carlos Gonzalez-Figueroa (Grace Xiao lab, IBP) is awarded the 2021-22 UCLA Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology Hyde Fellowship. The third-year graduate student received the award to […]

Graduate student Rachel Knapp (Garg group) has been selected as one of the four winners of the 2021 Alfred R Bader Award for Student Innovation.  Knapp was chosen for the […]

We are pleased to honor UCLA biochemist Emeritus Professor Richard Dickerson, a giant in structural biology, who turned 90 on October 8, 2021. To honor Dickerson, UCLA has established a […]

Professor Shimon Weiss wins Biophysical Society’s Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics for trailblazing contributions to the field of single-molecule fluorescence detection biophysics.   Weiss will be honored at the Society’s […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been selected to receive the Qian Baojun Fiber Award (Distinguished Achievement) for his “pioneering work of conducting organic fibers especially conducting polyaniline nanofibers.” Kaner received the […]