Professor Jiaxing Huang (PhD ’04, Kaner group) has received funding to develop a new self-sanitizing medical face mask that deactivates viruses on contact. A professor of materials science in Northwestern’s McCormick School […]

JoAnne Stubbe’s 2020 Priestly Medal address “The road less traveled—for love of detection, discovery, and all things radical in nature” is now online. Read Stubbe’s address on the Chemical & […]

Professor Ken Houk’s group joins with the Scott Denmark group at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to explain the autocatalytic Soai reaction. The Soai reaction shown below was discovered in the […]

On March 1, 2020, we celebrated the official installation of Professor Michael Jung as the UC Presidential Chair in Medicinal Chemistry. An intimate gathering of close supporters, donors, faculty, alumni, […]

We are sad to report that Lyda Boyer, widow of Nobel Laureate Emeritus Professor Paul Boyer, passed away on Monday March 9, just short of her 101st birthday. When UCLA […]

Professor James Bowie receives the 2020 Stein and Moore Award in recognition of his protein science research and service to the scientific community. The award is given annually by the […]

PhD student David Boyer (Eisenberg group) is one of 20 young scientists chosen for inaugural class of the UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows. Boyer is a fifth-year Biochemistry, […]

Undergraduate student Rachana Jayaraman is the winner of the 2018-19 Chem14A/B Excellence in Chemistry Book Award. A Computational and Systems Biology major, Rachana was presented the award by Dr. Laurence […]