Professor Ohyun Kwon and her research group have invented a powerful new chemical reaction that potentially could reduce the cost of drug production.  They report this major discovery May 16 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]