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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Postdoctoral Scholars Lucía Fernandez-del-Rio (Catherine Clarke group) and Zipeng Zhao (Yu Huang and Xiaofeng Duan groups) receive the 2021 UCLA Chancellor’s $7,500 Awards for Postdoctoral Research.   The award honors UCLA’s […]

The American Chemical Society (ACS) paid tribute to the accomplishments of UCLA’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Professor Emily Carter in a special issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry. […]

In her new paper, Dr Roshini Ramachandran discusses the teaching practices and pedagogical strategies that she used in her Fall 2020 CHEM 3: Material World general education course. In the […]