To honor Nobel Laureate and UCLA professor Paul Boyer we are establishing an endowment to permanently fund summer undergraduate research fellowships. The department has over 1,000 undergraduate biochemistry majors, and […]

Professor Jorge Torres has been named the 2019 recipient of the ASCB Prize for Excellence in Inclusivity by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). Torres will receive $5,000, will […]

On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, students, postdocs, and faculty gathered for a UCLA Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) “Meet and Greet”.  Laboratory safety is at its best when EH&S professionals […]

Alumnus HN Cheng ’69, USDA Research Chemist, is one of two candidates for the 2020 American Chemical Society (ACS) President-Elect.  Cheng graduated summa cum laude and with departmental highest honors […]

Professor Richard Kaner recently presented the 2019-20 Suslick-Sessler Lecture in Materials Chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After Kaner’s lecture on September 17, 2019, titled “Exploring the Synthesis and […]

A welcome party for first-year Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate students was held in the Court of Sciences patio on Friday, September 20, 2019. This year, we welcome 65 new graduate […]

Collaboration by Professor Ken Houk’s group and Chinese researchers leads to breakthrough in the field of metal difluorocarbene chemistry.  In their paper, published in the September 23, 2019 issue of […]

Professor Ken Houk recently visited Tianjin, China to give a special lecture to commemorate Nankai University’s 100th birthday. In honor of Nankai University’s birthday, Houk gave a special lecture titled […]