Professor Paul Weiss and alum Adam Stieg (PhD ’07) made presentations at the Vision 2020 Series “It Came From Nano Space” event on February 1. The event explored the opportunities and challenges presented by nanoscience and featured presentations by UC Presidential Chair Professor Paul Weiss, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and of materials science […]

BMSB graduate student Joseph Ong’s in-depth article about cancer is featured in ASBMB Today magazine on World Cancer Day, February 4. A science writer, Ong’s article on the characteristics, development, treatment, and current research of cancers was written to be easily understood by non-scientists. Read the  ASBMB Today  article here. ASBMB Magazine is a publication for the members […]

UCLA’s Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Professor Emily Carter gave the Winter 2020 Distinguished Lecture on January 22.   Department Chair Professor Neil Garg made the welcoming remarks, followed by introductory remarks by Carter’s former “across-the-hall neighbor” at UCLA, Professor William Gelbart. In his remarks, Gelbart recounted how Carter’s academic career began at UCLA in 1988 […]

Third-year organic chemistry graduate students Jason Chari, Cooper Jamieson, Chris Jones, and Ishika Saha have been named the 2020 Senior Foote Fellows.   The Senior Foote Fellowships support our most outstanding third-year graduate students upon completion of their qualifying examination for their Ph.D. degree and the Junior Foote Fellowships support our most promising applicants to our […]

Professor Sarah Tolbert and several chemistry & biochemistry researchers are featured in a new video about the CNSI Education Program. CNSI creates multidisciplinary education and training opportunities that supplement and enhance traditional degree programs and classroom curricula to prepare a new generation of science leaders who will apply science to emerging global challenges. For over […]

Walter and Shirley Wang have donated $2M to the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry to establish two new endowments. This transformative gift will establish The Walter and Shirley Wang Endowed Chair in Drug Discovery and, in honor of Shirley’s mother, the Evelyn Pan Scholarships and Fellowships (for graduate students).  Thanks to Physical Sciences Matching […]

UCLA and MindshareLA will present a year-long series of events that explore innovations ranging in scale from the tiny to the cosmic. The Vision 2020 Series will consist of four quarterly events held at the Cross Campus office space in downtown Los Angeles beginning with “It Came From Nano Space…“, on Saturday, February 1 at 7:00 […]

The tile art piece, which is part of the UCLA Campus Art Collection, has been updated to assure a more inclusive environment for our Native American students. In the table, the original tile for the element #49 Indium (In) featured a caricature of an “American Indian.” It has now been replaced with a tile featuring […]