In Chemical & Engineering News article, Professor Neil Garg discusses mentoring with columnist and Emory chemistry professor Jen Heemstra. Garg is the inaugural holder of the Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair in Chemistry & Biochemistry and currently serves as Department Chair.  From Chemical & Engineering News (by Jen Heemstra and Neil Garg): Putting mentoring first […]

We are sad to report that UCLA cosmochemist Emeritus Professor John Wasson passed away peacefully at the age of 86 on September 7. Wasson was a professor of geochemistry and chemistry in the UCLA College. From UCLA Newsroom (by John Harlow): In memoriam: John Wasson, 86, cosmochemist and co-creator the UCLA Meteorite Collection John Wasson, a […]

Professor Chong Liu receives a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA or R35) award from the NIH/NIGMS. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded Liu, an assistant professor of chemistry, $1.9 million over five years to work on electrochemically controlled microbial communities.  Inorganic nanomaterials […]

In the journal Nature, the Garg and Houk groups report the use of unusual strained intermediates in asymmetric catalysis, work highlighted in C&EN.  “Intercepting fleeting cyclic allenes with asymmetric nickel catalysis”, was published in the August 26, 2020 issue of Nature. The discoveries were made by experimentalists in Professor Neil Garg’s lab, former and current graduate students […]

Stony Brook professor Nancy Goroff (PhD ’94), the Democratic nominee for Congress in New York’s First Congressional District, is profiled in C&EN.  Professor Nancy Goroff received a Ph.D. in chemistry at UCLA in 1994 under the direction of Professor François Diederich. If she wins in November, she will be the first woman with a natural sciences […]

Northwestern Professor Jiaxing Huang (PhD ’04, Kaner group) named inaugural Editor-in-Chief of new ACS journal Accounts of Materials Research.  The new journal, which launched in partnership between ACS Publications and ShanghaiTech University, will publish short reviews on basic research and applications in all areas of materials science and engineering. A professor of materials science in […]

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 […]