Distinguished Professor Neil Garg is featured in a new Chemistry Shorts film on organic chemistry titled “Changing Key and Chemistry”. In the ten-minute film, Garg and lab members show that […]

Professors Xiangfeng Duan, David Eisenberg, Kendall Houk, Yu Huang, and Richard Kaner have been named to the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2025 list, a recognition of their significant and broad influence in their field.  Since […]

On October 24, 2025, UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry students and faculty gathered in the Mani L. Bhaumik Centennial Collaboratory in Young Hall for a student-faculty mixer. This year, UCLA’s Student […]

On October 9, 2025, pioneering structural biologist Distinguished Professor Juli Feigon delivered the Mendel Lecture at the refectory in the Mendel Museum Brno. The lecture took place at the Augustinian […]

UCLA researchers led by Professor Soumitra Athavale have taught enzymes an entirely new reaction mechanism—a radical hydrogenation process that nature itself never discovered. Hydrogenation — the process of adding hydrogen […]

Victoria Barber receives American Lung Association Indoor Air Award Grant Professor Victoria “Tori” Barber has been awarded an Indoor Air Research Award Grant from the American Lung Association. Barber received […]

In a recent collaborative study published in PNAS, Distinguished Research Professor Raphael Levine helped uncover how sunlight photodissociates  nitrogen molecules, offering new insights into the evolution of planetary atmospheres. Working […]

Professor Elizabeth Villa (University of California, San Diego), known for her pioneering research in cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), visited UCLA on October 20 to give the Fall 2025 Chemistry & […]