Graduate students Nikki Cheung (Clubb Group), Jonathan Jih (Zhou Group), Eileen Olivares (Loo Group), and Lily Taylor (Rodriguez Group) have been selected as 2025–26 Fowler Fellows and shared their research at a special event on Oct. 15, 2025. About the 2025-26 Audree Fowler Fellows in Protein Science Nikki Cheung is a fifth-year Biochemistry, Biophysics, and […]

Effective November 1, 2025, Professor Paul S. Weiss has been elected to the Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) Board of Trustees for a six-year term. Prior to this appointment, Weiss served on the GRC Conference Evaluation Committee. Gordon Research Conferences are internationally recognized, science-focused meetings that bring together researchers at the forefront of their fields to […]

Professor Osvaldo Gutierrez is featured in a new Research Powers Progress video, which highlights his research and its importance to UCLA’s mission.  His lab is working on new and sustainable methods of making chemical compounds, including medicines, which may help to yield better health outcomes nationally and globally. The Research Powers Progress campaign seeks to […]

In a new short video recorded as part of the UCLA Academic Senate’s recognition, Ph.D. candidate Caitlyn Fick (Srivastava group) explains how small, caring practices—like anonymous surveys—can build trust and help students feel supported in an intimidating subject like chemistry. The 2025 Distinguished Teaching Awards were announced earlier this year and the recipients were recognized […]

Distinguished Professor Neil Garg is featured in a new Chemistry Shorts film on organic chemistry titled “Changing Key and Chemistry”. In the ten-minute film, Garg and lab members show that organic chemistry can be understood much like music — one key, one scale, and one step at a time. From UCLA Newsroom (by Alison Hewitt): […]

Professors Xiangfeng Duan, David Eisenberg, Kendall Houk, Yu Huang, and Richard Kaner have been named to the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2025 list, a recognition of their significant and broad influence in their field.  Since 2002, the international data and analytics company has released an annual list of researchers who have demonstrated compelling and broad influence in their fields of […]

On October 24, 2025, UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry students and faculty gathered in the Mani L. Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory in Young Hall for a student-faculty mixer. This year, UCLA’s Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) hosted the event in collaboration with Alpha Chi Sigma (AXS), the professional co-ed chemistry fraternity at UCLA. Select […]

On October 9, 2025, pioneering structural biologist Distinguished Professor Juli Feigon delivered the Mendel Lecture at the refectory in the Mendel Museum Brno. The lecture took place at the Augustinian Abbey where Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, lived and worked in Brno, Czech Republic.  Feigon’s host was Professor Richard Štefl of Masaryk University (pictured […]