Alumna Janice Lin (PhD ’18 Houk group), now a Business Development Associate at Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, receives the 2019 Norma Stoddart Prize.  Nobel Laureate and UCLA Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Sir Fraser Stoddart presented the award to Lin at her 2019 Norma Stoddart Lecture on November 28, 2019, in Young Hall 2033. Lin was […]

Professor Paul S Weiss has been awarded the AVS Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Division (NSTD) 2019 Nanotechnology Recognition Award. Weiss is a UC Presidential Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Materials Science & Engineering and Editor-in-Chief of ACS Nano. He was selected for the honor in recognition of his “seminal studies which […]

November 23, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of the untimely death of noted scientist UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry professor Saul Winstein at age 57. It is fitting that the 2019 Winstein Lecture will be given by Professor Bert Meijer from the Netherlands on November 7. Professor Saul Winstein (1912-1969) was one of the leading physical […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry students visited the local elementary school to demonstrate experiments with a Halloween theme. At the outreach event at the Warner Avenue Elementary School on October 22, 2019, members of Professor Neil Garg‘s group talked to the second-graders about matter and laboratory safety after which the young scientists suited up in lab […]

Professor Catherine Clarke has been appointed the first Associate Dean for Special Projects in the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences.  “This is a pivotal and important role that will enhance our ability to continue reaching higher levels of excellence by attracting to UCLA the most diverse and talented faculty, students, researchers and contributors,” said Dean […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry researchers are featured in new short video promoting UCLA’s upcoming free annual science festival taking place on November 3, 2019. Exploring Your Universe (EYU) is one of UCLA’s biggest annual events, drawing in thousands of children, parents, and friends from the Los Angeles community to our campus.  Professors Margot Quinlan and Jose […]

Professor Marcos Dantus (Michigan State University) gave the second Richard Bernstein Lecture of the year on October 21, 2019. In his lecture titled “Extreme Chemical Reactivity in Solution and in Gas Phase”, Dantus presented his group’s recent work on highly active photobases and inducing novel chemical reactivity using shaped ultrafast pulses.   Dantus began his talk by […]

The Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) crowned its new champion of the department-wide trivia night on October 20, 2019. The Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA) hosted a trivia night to test the knowledge of Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty, postdocs, and graduate students. Teams consisted of members of biochemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, and inorganic chemistry […]