PhD students Tim Boit, Jason Chari, and Rachel Knapp receive the 2020 Education Innovation Award for creating and teaching a successful online summer course.  The team created and taught the online summer course Chemistry 101 “Catalysis in Modern Drug Discovery” and will split the $3,000 prize, which is made possible by the generous donations provided […]

In the inaugural podcast of UCLA’s Bruin Family Insights, Professor Alex Spokoyny discusses the challenges of teaching and mentoring remotely during a pandemic.  Bruin Family Insights is a new podcast meant to equip families with knowledge to help them get to know UCLA better, and encourage their student to thrive during their time at UCLA […]

Four UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020 list from Clarivate, placing them among world’s most influential scholars, based on citations. Those recognized are Professors Xiangfeng Duan, David Eisenberg, Richard Kaner, and Jeffrey Zink.    The Clarivate 2020 Highly Cited Researchers List identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence […]

UCLA graduate students launch crowdfunding campaign to raise $100K to endow an annual UCLA lectureship series to celebrate Black chemists and biochemists. The goal of the annual lectureship is to invite one of the world’s top Black scientists to UCLA each year to give a special lecture. The lecture series would be open to the […]

KCET’s online magazine “Southland Sessions” and UCLA Arts “Works in Progress” podcast feature Professor Neil Garg and his passion for education.   The online article, by journalist and podcast host Avishay Artsy, is titled “Making Organic Chemistry and Scientific Literacy Approachable with UCLA Professor Neil Garg”.  Artsy currently works at the UCLA School of the Arts and […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan’s group and UCLA collaborators devise an approach that could enable the development of programmable devices made of 2-D semiconductors.  A UCLA professor of chemistry since 2008, Duan has pioneered unconventional material integration approaches to functional heterostructures for electronic and energy devices. To learn more about Duan’s research, visit his group’s website.  From Tech […]

Professor Ellen Sletten is one of four young investigators selected for the 2020 International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS) Young Chemical Biologist Award.  Since 2013, this international award has been given annually to young scientists who have made significant research and service contributions to chemical biology.  Sletten, the first UCLA faculty member to receive the award, […]

Article by Anastassia Alexandrova and Borna Zandkarimi (PhD ’20) is one of five top cited Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters catalysis papers. Their highly cited paper titled “Dynamics of Subnanometer Pt Clusters Can Break the Scaling Relationships in Catalysis” was published in the January 19, 2020 issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters .   […]