Neil Garg and alumni Luis Campos and Will Dichtel named National Finalists for the 2020 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. The thirty-one finalists, chosen from a pool of 305 nominated researchers aged 42 years or younger, are considered to be some of America’s most important young scientists driving the next generation of innovation by […]

Ohyun Kwon wins the prestigious 2019-2020 McCoy Award, which recognizes the greatest contribution of the year to the science of chemistry and biochemistry.   Professor Ohyun Kwon has discovered a new very general reaction, the hydrodealkenylation, a reaction that clips a propenyl group or other alkenyl group off and replaces it with an H. (A propenyl […]

Professor Hosea Nelson and PhD students Sophia King and Ani Mustafa quoted in article discussing how chemists are acting against racism and inequality in STEM.  Nelson is an assistant professor of organic chemistry, King is a fourth-year chemistry graduate student in Professor Sarah Tolbert’s group and Mustafa is a second-year chemistry graduate student in Professor Patrick Harran’s […]

Each year at commencement we recognize our undergraduate students for their accomplishments in academics and in research. The 2020 Chemistry & Biochemistry Undergraduate Commencement Awards have been announced. Congratulations to all the recipients listed below! These awards are normally presented to our students at the department’s annual commencement ceremony which has been postponed until later […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry stands with the Black Lives Matter movement.  The past and present murders of African Americans, and the skewed way the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted our black students and their families is posing unprecedented challenges to education. This is a tumultuous time. But it is also a time to […]

On Saturday, June 13, 2020, we will honor the department’s graduating students through virtual celebrations.  The Departmental 2020 Virtual Graduation Celebration for our 30 graduating Ph.D. degree candidates and two master of science candidates can be viewed here no later than Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Because the virtual celebration has been […]

Professor William Gelbart was one of three UCLA Physical Sciences faculty members who spoke about their research pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic. Physical Sciences Dean Miguel García-Garibay moderated the panel at the May 29th event and viewers were given the opportunity to submit questions for the experts to address. A recording of the one-hour webinar […]

19 chemistry & biochemistry graduate student researchers receive the 2020-2021 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF).  The fellowship is intended to support doctoral students who are within one year of completing and filing their dissertation. It includes a $20,000 stipend plus standard tuition and fees (excluding nonresident tuition). Each year, approximately 200 Dissertation Year […]