Professor Michael Jung has been named the UC Presidential Chair in Medicinal Chemistry, retroactive to July 1, 2018. Presidential chairs are created by the Chancellor’s office and approved by the Office of the President to honor UCLA’s most accomplished faculty.  “Over the course of his long career Mike has made exceptional contributions to UCLA in […]

Collaboration by Liu, Sletten teams leads to incorporation of perfluorocarbon emulsions into an electrochemical system for a microbial solution to CO2 fixation. By Roselyn Rodrigues Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a gas that is produced by cars, boats, planes, concrete production and numerous other sources. For years, scientists have discussed the effect that carbon dioxide has […]

Undergraduate researcher senior Matthew Ye (Paul Weiss group) has been selected to receive the ACS Division of Physical Chemistry 2019 Undergraduate Award. The American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Physical Chemistry sponsors the award to recognize outstanding achievement by undergraduate students in physical chemistry, and to encourage further pursuits in the field. “It is curious, […]

Alumnus Michael Varney ’80 has been selected for the 2019 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award.  Dr. Varney will accept the award and present his commencement address at the UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 15, 2019 in the Court of Sciences. As a UCLA chemistry undergraduate, Dr. Varney conducted research in […]

Graduate student Katharine “KJ” Winchell (Sarah Tolbert group) has been selected for the 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. Winchell is one of five awardees selected from a large field of extraordinary nominees. She will be recognized at the annual “Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching” dinner in the Fall 2019 quarter. Awardees […]

UCLA postdoc alum and former faculty member Professor François Diederich (ETH Zurich) returned to UCLA on April 18 to give the 2019 Orville L Chapman Lecture. Diederich was a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA with Professor Orville Chapman, for whom the lecture is named, from 1979 to 1981. After conducting research at the Max-Planck-Institute in Germany, […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Eric Scerri discusses his passion for the periodic table in new UCLA College video. A world authority on the history and philosophy of the periodic table, Scerri has a busy year ahead of him during this the 150th anniversary of the periodic table. So far he has been invited to give […]

Former chemistry & biochemistry faculty member Emily Carter has been named UCLA’s new executive vice chancellor & provost, effective September 1.  From UCLA Newsroom: UCLA names Emily A. Carter new executive vice chancellor and provost Emily A. Carter, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, has been named UCLA’s new […]