Professor Steven Clarke receives Pomona College’s prestigious 2020 Blaisdell Distinguished Alumni Award for carrying “the spirit of the College” into the world.  An authority on the biochemistry of the aging process and how protein modification can regulate biological function, Clarke earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry and zoology from Pomona College in 1970. He went on […]

Undergraduate researchers Sasha Gill-Ljunghammer (Tolbert Group) and Hieu Nguyen (Torres group) have been selected as 2020-2021 Beckman Scholars.   The 2020-2021 Beckman Research Scholarship at UCLA is directed through the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and administered by the Undergraduate Research Center (URC)-Sciences. The scholarship is awarded to outstanding undergraduate researchers who are […]

Professors Kun Zhao (Tianjin U) and Tom Mason (UCLA) discover tetratic order in dense 2D systems of rotationally asymmetric hard kite particles. A former postdoctoral researcher in Professor Tom Mason’s UCLA lab, Professor Kun Zhao (pictured right) of Tianjin University China’s School of Chemical Engineering and Technology has led a collaborative research effort, launched initially with […]

Professor Alexander Spokoyny is among 14 honorees nationwide to receive a 2020 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. The unrestricted $100,000 award will support Spokoyny’s efforts to create hybrid materials and reagents featuring boron-rich clusters. A portion of this award will also support some of educational activities Spokoyny has been spearheading, including the development of a next […]

Team led by Professor Paul Weiss’ group develops a new method to safely, rapidly and economically deliver DNA into stem cells and immune cells.  The new tool will help scientists provide new gene therapies to patients with a wide variety of cancers, genetic disorders and blood diseases. Chemistry graduate student Jason Belling was lead author […]

Chemistry professor Robin Garrell, Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate Division, to serve as new President of the CUNY Graduate Center.  Garrell will be leaving UCLA as of July 31, 2020, to become president of the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. She has served UCLA as vice provost […]

April 24 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kenneth Trueblood, who for nearly 50 years was a distinguished member of our department.  Born in Dobbs Ferry, New York, Ken earned an A.B. from Harvard in 1941 and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1947, both in chemistry. His Ph.D. research, […]

First-year organic chemistry graduate student Maximilian McCallum amuses Chem 243B professor and fellow classmates with his clever Zoom background images. McCallum, currently rotating in Professor Patrick Harran’s group, is taking Professor Heather Maynard’s upper level 243B Organic Chemistry: Mechanism and Structure class this quarter. Due to the Covid19 pandemic, all chemistry and biochemistry courses have […]