Physical Sciences Dean Miguel García-Garibay has been elected a 2019 Fellow of the American Chemical Society. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): Miguel García-Garibay, dean of the UCLA Division of […]

UCLA alum Robert McMahon (PhD ’85), Professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, selected for prestigious ACS 2019 Arthur C Cope Scholar Award.  The American Chemical Society (ACS) chose […]

The summer seminar series, hosted by the Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA), features alumni career talks & research talks by postdocs. Starting July 12, 2019, the seminars will take place […]

Professor Keriann Backus is the recipient of a prestigious 2019 Young Faculty Award from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Backus is an assistant professor of biological chemistry […]

Professors Anastassia Alexandrova, Patrick Harran, and Margot Quinlan have agreed to serve as the Vice Chairs of the department, effective July 1, 2019. Alexandrova will serve as the Vice Chair […]

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposum 14 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF). Professor Ken Houk’s group hosted the live virtual symposium on July 2, 2019, at UCLA […]

Alumna Mercedes Cornelius (BS ’18 Paul Weiss group) appears in episode of web series, Nerd Girl Nation, which features women in STEM fields. In the episode about bio-physics, which aired on […]

Postdoctoral Researcher Dr Yuan Yang, from Professor Juli Feigon’s group, received one of three Boyer/Parvin Postdoctoral Awards at the ceremony on June 25. Yang was recognized for her research on […]