Each year we recognize our undergraduate students with departmental awards for their accomplishments in academics and in research. The 2020 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 until […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova’s 2017 Viewpoint article is selected for ACS Catalysis Virtual Issue: “Blurring the Lines Between Catalysis Subdisciplines”.  The ACS Catalysis special Virtual Issue features selected examples of papers that cut across boundaries between traditional catalysis subdisciplines as part of the journal’s celebration of its 10th anniversary in 2020 and its 10th volume of […]

A new American Chemical Society (ACS) national award honors boron research pioneer UCLA Professor Emeritus M Frederick Hawthorne.  The inaugural M. Frederick Hawthorne Award in Main Group Inorganic Chemistry has been awarded to Professor Karl Christe (USC) (pictured right) who will present the Hawthorne Award address at the 2021 Spring ACS meeting and participate in […]

BMSB PhD student Nicole Lynn (Torres lab) writes second article for ASBMB Today magazine as part of their contributor program.   Lynn’s article titled “Decoding a protein’s role in connective tissue disorders” was featured in the August 18, 2020 issue of ASBMB Today, the member magazine of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). […]

Honoring Professor Emeritus Richard Dickerson, a giant in structural biology, a new fund is being established to provide resources for an enriched biochemistry seminar series at UCLA.   Update! Thanks to all our generous donors we have reached our goal of $100,000 and the fund is now endowed. Join us in supporting the biochemistry seminar series! Contributions can be […]

We are sad to report that long-time supporter and alumnus Raymond Wilson ’43 passed away at the age of 98 on August 2, 2020. “Ray Wilson was a great supporter of our department and he will always be remembered for his unwavering support of undergraduate research and bringing top scholars to our department,” said Professor […]

Former Houk group undergraduate researcher Professor Osvaldo Gutierrez, University of Maryland, named one of Chemical and Engineering News’ Talented 12. The Talented Twelve list, created by the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) weekly magazine Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), highlights young investigators who are “enterprising chemists (who) are solving some of science’s toughest problems.” As a […]

Professor Kendall Houk receives the 2021 Roger Adams Award in Organic Chemistry, one of the most important awards given by the ACS.  The biannual award recognizes outstanding contributions to research in organic chemistry. Houk was honored at the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting and Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia on August 22, 2021, and he will deliver the […]