Each year we recognize our graduate students for their accomplishments in research and teaching, two of the primary missions of our university. The 2020 Chemistry & Biochemistry Graduate Awards have been announced. Congratulations to all the recipients listed below! These awards are normally presented to students at the department’s annual awards ceremony and at Commencement, […]

Professor Ken Houk receives 2019-20 Edward A Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions and service since retirement. “Professor Houk’s activity since retirement has been at least equal to that of most of his senior colleagues,” said Vice Chancellor Michael S. Levine in the award announcement below.  “[He] is an internationally famous scholar and […]

Professors William Gelbart and Alexander Spokoyny receive 2020 Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Awards. As part of the UCLA Undergraduate Research Week held May 18 – 22, 2019, undergraduate student researchers who presented their work during the Undergraduate Research Showcase were invited to nominate their mentor for a Faculty Mentor award to recognize the meaningful […]

Juli Feigon, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and National Academy of Sciences member, receives the 2020 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Research Award.  Feigon was the first female assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry when she joined the UCLA faculty in 1985. Even in her field, she was one of very few women academics […]

This June we will honor our graduating students through virtual celebrations and then hold an in-person ceremony later during the 2020-21 academic year.   After surveying our majors and graduate students, it is clear that having an in-person commencement ceremony is important to our students. As a result, the department plans to hold an in-person graduation […]

36 Chemistry & Biochemistry undergraduate students presented their research at the UCLA Undergraduate Research Showcase, five were awarded the prestigious Science Dean’s Prize.  At the event, which is part of the annual UCLA Undergraduate Research Week (URW), faculty judges award the Science Dean’s Prize to senior presenters for “excellence in presentation of their faculty-mentored research”. […]

In honor of National Women’s Health Week, BMSB PhD student Nicole Lynn (Torres lab) writes article about women’s health for ASBMB Today magazine.   Lynn’s article was featured in the May 10, 2020, issue of ASBMB Today, the member magazine of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). A second-year graduate student in the Biochemistry, Molecular […]

We are sad to report that alumnus Professor Hans J Reich (PhD ’68 Cram) died on May 1 at the age of 76 from an injury sustained in a bicycle accident. A Professor Emeritus of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Reich led an internationally recognized research program in physical-organic chemistry for over 50 years.   […]