UCLA organic chemists have launched virtual reality resources that they hope will make learning organic chemistry more engaging for students, allowing them to interact with 3D molecular models. Graduate students Jason Chari, Francesca Ippoliti and Melissa Ramirez with their advisor, Distinguished Professor and Department Chair Neil Garg, created the innovative educational tool to make organic […]

We are sad to report that Caroline Cram, widow of Professor Donald Cram, and longtime supporter of the department, passed away on March 12, 2021.  At the age of 79, Caroline married Professor Donald J. Cram, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist who taught and conducted research at UCLA for more than 50 years. They were together […]

Chemist and physicist Professor Thomas Mason is one of five scientists from around the nation selected as a 2021 Fellow of the Society of Rheology (SOR).   A professor of physical chemistry and of physics at UCLA, Mason was selected for his work in complex fluids including the creation, demonstration, and development of thermal-entropic ‘passive’ microrheology. He is the […]

Each year we recognize our undergraduate students with departmental awards for their accomplishments in academics and in research. The 2021 Chemistry & Biochemistry Undergraduate Departmental Awards have been announced. Congratulations to all the recipients listed below! These awards are normally presented to our students at our annual departmental awards ceremony, which has been postponed due […]

Congratulations to Professor Hosea Nelson on his promotion to associate professor with tenure, effective July 1, 2021. Nelson earned a B.S. in Chemistry from University of California at Berkeley in 2004 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 2012 with Professor Brian Stoltz. After postdoctoral training at University of California at Berkeley […]

A paper written by graduate students as the final project for Professor Anastassia Alexandrova’s 2020 “Computational Methods for Chemists” class (Chem 126/226) was recently published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Their paper titled “Understanding the Hardness of Doped WB4.2”, was published on April 23, 2021, as part of journal’s virtual special issue “Alexander […]

PhD student Samantha Mensah (Andrews/P Weiss labs) has been selected by the UCLA Academic Senate for the 2021 Graduate Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Award.  According to the Academic Senate’s DEI website, the prestigious award is given to just one graduate student each year in order “to honor those who have motivated other members […]

Undergraduate researcher Samantha “Sam” Vi-Tang (Kaner group) is one of two UCLA students selected as 2021-2022 Beckman Scholars.   The 2021-22 Beckman Research Scholarship at UCLA is awarded to outstanding undergraduate researchers committed to completing a thesis project under the supervision of select UCLA Beckman Faculty. The $18,200 award will be distributed over one academic year […]