Professors Jorge Torres and Jennifer Casey have been named the recipients of the 2020 Hanson-Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching.   The Hanson-Dow Award for Excellence in Teaching was established in […]

We bid farewell to former Teacher-Scholars Agape Awad and Christian Beren and we welcome new Teacher-Scholar Daniel Nasrallah.  Our Boyer/Cram/Libby Teacher-Scholar program allows postdoctoral scholars to experience research and teaching at the […]

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2020 Staff Recognition Awards, which recognize outstanding contributions made to the department by our staff members. Since 2018, the awards have been given to […]

Professor Michael Jung has been selected for UCLA’s 130th Faculty Research Lectureship, placing him among the university’s most distinguished scholars. A tradition established at UCLA in 1925, the purpose of […]

This year’s annual Organic Graduate Symposium on Friday, June 12, 2020, featured online research talks by 13 chemistry graduate students, and two alums.  The annual Organic Graduate Symposium provides a […]

Materials chemistry graduate student Omar Leon (Schwartz group) has been selected to receive a prestigious 2020-21 UCLA Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship. The purpose of the Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship (GCDF) […]

Postdoctoral Researcher Lucía Fernández del Río, from Professor Catherine Clarke’s group, receives one of three 2020 Boyer/Parvin Postdoctoral Awards. At the June 9 online event, Fernández del Río was recognized […]

True Bruin alumna and UC Merced assistant professor Yue “Jessica” Wang (BS ’08, PhD ’14 Kaner group) named winner of 2020 Beckman Young Investigator Award. Wang received her bachelor’s degree […]