Professor Anastassia Alexandrova is co-PI of team to receive $1.5M Sloan Foundation grant for research on electrochemical CO2 removal from air. The interdisciplinary research team includes Professor Jenny Yang at the University of California, Irvine, and Professor Fik Brushett at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The three principal investigators (PIs) will contribute with theoretical modeling and design […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova wins the 2020 Early-Career Award in Theoretical Chemistry by the Physical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society.  A professor of chemistry and biochemistry and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education, Alexandrova received the prestigious award for her “development of theory of catalysis on dynamic heterogeneous interfaces based on statistical ensembles of metastable […]

Alum Professor James Halpert (University of Connecticut) shares his memories of UCLA chemistry classes in recent issue of Journal of Biological Chemistry. A Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology at the University of Connecticut, Dr. James R. Halpert earned his B.A. in Scandinavian Languages at UCLA but his chemistry classes had a huge impact on him and […]

The UCLA Joint Research Safety Initiative (JRSI) is hosting a sustainability open house for Chemistry & Biochemistry researchers on Tuesday, January 21.   Everyone is invited to attend this fun, interactive and educational event which will take place from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Young Hall 2033. Free cookies and swag will be provided. JRSI […]

The late Lorraine and Masuo Toji have left $1 million to our department to support undergraduate education and research. Dr. Masuo Toji, known as Mas, received his bachelor’s degree in science from UCLA in 1957 and his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in 1963. After graduation, he began his long career as a chemist […]

Professor Justin Caram has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. “I am deeply honored that I have been selected for a Career award by NSF and am really excited to work on spectroscopy of next generation nanocrystals, and further UCLA’s unique educational mission,” Caram said.  The CAREER Awards […]

Alumnus Dr Kevin Cheung (PhD ’19, Andrews/P Weiss groups) is lead author of ACS Sensors cover article and profiled by the journal.  Cheung is lead author on a paper titled “Phenylalanine Monitoring via Aptamer-Field-Effect Transistor Sensors” which was the featured cover article of the December 27, 2019 issue of ACS Sensors. He was profiled in […]

Professor James Gimzewski & alum Adam Stieg (PhD ’07) are part of team that has taken a significant stride toward goal of creating thinking machines.  A distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry, Gimzewski is a pioneer in the research of nanowire networks as a brain-inspired system. Stieg, a research scientist and an associate director of […]