In honor of International Women’s Day 2021, BMSB graduate student Xiaofei ‘Fay’ Lin is profiled by the UCLA International Institute and UCLA Newsroom.  Lin is a 5th year Biochemistry, Molecular and Structural Biology (BMSB) Ph.D. student conducting research in Professor Alexander Hoffmann’s group as a Cellular and Molecular Biology Trainee. In March 2019, Fay created her Twitter platform (@xiaofei_lin) focusing […]

On Monday evening, March 8, Professor Heather Maynard will be featured speaker at Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society special event. A worldwide leader in the area of protein-polymer conjugates, which are important therapeutics for a variety of diseases, Maynard holds UCLA’s Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Polymer Science. At the […]

Professor Michael Jung, the UC Presidential Chair in Medicinal Chemistry, is co-leader of UCLA team working to develop a new drug to treat multiple sclerosis.   A distinguished professor of chemistry and Associate Dean for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Division of Physical Sciences at UCLA, Jung is a worldwide leader in the field of synthetic […]

Professor Joseph Loo has been chosen for the 2021 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Mass Spectrometry. The EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Mass Spectrometry session, honoring Loo, will be held this November at the Crowne Plaza Princeton Conference Center in Plainsboro, New Jersey, Nov 15-17, 2021.    An expert in the mass spectrometry […]

In new article, Professor Alex Spokoyny and former and current members of his group write about undergraduate teaching and mentorship at UCLA. Specifically, the authors discuss how individual undergraduate researchers contributed and jump-started multiple research themes since the conception of the Spokoyny research laboratory. The paper also describes several recent innovations in the inorganic and […]

We are celebrating Dr James Ellis “Jimmy” LuValle who graduated from UCLA’s Chemistry & Biochemistry Department 85 years ago and led an extraordinary life. From being an Olympic medalist, to establishing the UCLA Graduate Student Association, to achieving greatness in the chemistry field for decades, Jimmy was the embodiment of the True Bruin spirit. LuValle […]

PhD student Omar Leon (Schwartz lab) receives 2021 ACS CHAS Graduate Student Safety Leadership Award in recognition of his safety work on campus and nationally.  Omar was part of a team of four graduate students from around the nation recognized for their work on graduate student safety at their home institutions and for their work […]

Materials chemistry PhD student Samantha Theresa Mensah’s interview with Professor Davita Watkins of the University of Mississippi is featured in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN). Mensah’s article titled “ONE ON ONE WITH DAVITA L. WATKINS – Grad student Samantha Theresa Mensah talks with this supramolecular chemist about the collaborations central to her chemistry” was published […]