The late Lorraine and Masuo Toji have left $1 million to our department to support undergraduate education and research. Dr. Masuo Toji, known as Mas, received his bachelor’s degree in […]

Professor Justin Caram has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. “I am deeply honored that I have been selected for a Career award […]

Alumnus Dr Kevin Cheung (PhD ’19, Andrews/P Weiss groups) is lead author of ACS Sensors cover article and profiled by the journal.  Cheung is lead author on a paper titled […]

Professor James Gimzewski & alum Adam Stieg (PhD ’07) are part of team that has taken a significant stride toward goal of creating thinking machines.  A distinguished professor of chemistry […]

To mark the 150th anniversary of the discovery of the periodic table, Eric Scerri’s book about the periodic table was featured in the New Yorker.   Chemistry lecturer and author Dr. […]

UCLA researchers and Ilhan Yavuz from Turkey, unraveled the surface defect-deactivation mechanism in perovskite solar cells using molecules found in tea, coffee and chocolate. The team’s investigation was reported in […]

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposum 16 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF). Professor Ken Houk’s group hosted the live virtual symposium on December 10, 2019, at UCLA […]

Professor Hosea Nelson has been awarded the 2020 Bristol-Myers Squibb Unrestricted Grant in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. The award for synthetic organic chemistry is bestowed annually by researchers at BMS, in […]