In a new video, Professors Hosea Nelson and Jose Rodriguez speak about their research and the importance of diversity and inclusion in the sciences. The two assistant professors in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry are part of a UCLA team that developed a way to look at small molecules with electron microscopes which allows […]

Professor Steven Clarke was recently interviewed by science journalist Robyn Williams about his Alzheimer’s disease research. The Australian Broadcasting Corp’s Science Show is considered by many people to be the world’s best science broadcast program. Clarke’s eight-minute interview was a segment of Williams’ one-hour radio show titled “The seaweed revolution and keeping brains fit” which […]

Professor Jose Rodriguez was recently interviewed by science journalist Robyn Williams about his infectious rope-like prion proteins research. The Australian Broadcasting Corp’s popular “The Science Show” is considered by many people to be the world’s best science broadcast program. Rodriguez’s six-minute interview was a segment on Williams’ one-hour radio show titled “The seaweed revolution and […]

Professors Paula Diaconescu and Chong Liu are part of the Center for Integrated Catalysis with the goal to mimic biological systems in the development of synthetic chemical catalytic processes. The Center for Integrated Catalysis (CIC) will be led by Diaconescu (pictured left) and Liu (pictured below) will be one of the center’s UCLA faculty members.   […]

Professor Heather Maynard will serve as Co-director of BioPACIFIC MIP, which will seek to advance fundamental science toward sustainable material development. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named UCLA and the University of California, Santa Barbara partners in a collaboration called BioPACIFIC MIP — for BioPolymers, Automated Cellular Infrastructure, Flow, and Integrated Chemistry: Materials Innovation […]

Several members of the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry are featured in a special centennial issue of the UCLA College Magazine.   The issue “celebrates the College’s defining moments over the past 100 years”. An online version of the 48-page magazine can be viewed here. Printed copies will be available in the future.   Two articles […]

An article by instructors Roshini Ramachandran and Marlius Castillo provides student perspectives and insight on remote learning in a large chemistry class.  Their article titled “Student Perspectives on Remote Learning in a Large Organic Chemistry Lecture Course” was published in the July 22, 2020 issue of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Journal of Chemical Education. “The […]

Postdoctoral alum Professor William Dichtel (Northwestern)  receives the prestigious 2020 Blavatnik National Award in Chemistry . An expert in organic and polymer chemistry, Dichtel is the Robert L. Letsinger Professor of Chemistry in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. He also was a finalist for the Blavatnik National Award in 2017 and 2019.  He […]