Professor Jennifer Doudna (University of California, Berkeley) gave the 2019 Donald J Cram Distinguished Lecture on November 14.   Enthusiastic students, postdocs, researchers, and faculty members attended the standing-room-only lecture in the CS 50 lecture hall, which was followed by a reception at the Luskin Center. Select photos from the event can be viewed below and […]

Professor Alex Spokoyny and fourth-year PhD student Mary Grumbles discuss undergraduate chemistry projects focused on communicating chemistry and science.  The Alchem.ie podcast interview was conducted by former science teacher Julia Winter, Chief Executive Officer of Alchemie Solutions, Inc., a company which builds interactive digital tools for students. Grumbles (pictured right) is a graduate student in […]

Four UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty are among the most influential scientists in their fields for 2019, as determined by Clarivate Analytics. Those recognized are Professors Xiangfeng Duan, Richard Kaner, Kendall Houk, and Jeffrey Zink.    The purpose of the Clarivate Analytics’ Highly Cited Researchers List is to identify contemporary authors whose research has significantly […]

Third-year graduate student and US Navy veteran Christopher Jones (Nelson group) speaks at ceremony honoring the nation’s veterans. Jones spoke at the November 8, 2019, Veterans Day ceremony held on UCLA’s Wilson Plaza. The annual event was attended by dozens of people paying their respects to veterans for their service.  After graduating from high school in 2003, Jones […]

Professor Edward Dennis (University of California, San Diego) received the MBI Sigman Lectureship Award at a special symposium on November 7, 2019. The Sigman Lectureship Award was established in 2002 to honor the memory of Dr. David Sigman, a professor in the UCLA Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry, who passed away in […]

Supramolecular polymer chemistry pioneer Professor Bert Meijer (Eindhoven University of Technology) presented the 2019 Saul Winstein Lecture on November 7, 2019. In his lecture, titled “The non-covalent synthesis of supramolecular systems and materials”, Meijer presented a tour de force about his groundbreaking studies of supramolecular polymers formed by noncovalent interactions. The emergent properties of these […]

Second-year graduate Zerina Mehmedović (Alexandrova group) has been chosen to participate in the prestigious ACS/AACT Science Coaches program. The Science Coaches program is a joint educational outreach initiative between the American Chemical Society (ACS) and American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT). The program pairs a science coach with an AACT member in an elementary, middle, […]

BMSB graduate students David Boyer, Orlando Martinez, and John Muroski have been selected as 2019-20 Audree Fowler Fellows in Protein Science. In 2008, an endowment from UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry alumna Dr. Audree Fowler (BS ’56, Ph.D. ’63) established the Audree Fowler Fellows in Protein Science. Applications are solicited from graduate students in the Molecular […]