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 […]

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 […]