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 […]

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 […]