New paper describes race between groups at UCLA and the Fukui Institute to determine the mechanism of a novel rearrangement discovered in Stoltz lab at Caltech. Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), the article describes the race to determine the mechanism of a novel rearrangement discovered in the lab of Professor […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan is co-senior author of a forward looking Perspective article in a recent issue of the prestigious journal Nature.  The article was also selected for Nature‘s 150 Year Anniversary Collection. Titled “Van der Waals Integration Before and Beyond Two-dimensional Materials”, the article was published in the March 20, 2019 issue of the journal.  A UCLA professor […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been selected for one of UCLA’s highest teaching honors, the 2018-2019 Distinguished Teaching Award for Senate Faculty. Department Chair Professor Catherine Clarke said of Alexandrova, “Anastassia is a phenomenal teacher who is deeply passionate about improving education at UCLA. She is an exceptional educator and mentor. She is recognized by UCLA […]

Professor Richard Kaner has been named the recipient of this year’s American Institute of Chemists (AIC) 2019 Chemical Pioneer Award. The award recognizes chemists and chemical engineers who have made outstanding contributions advancing the science of chemistry or impacting the chemical industry or the chemical profession.  Kaner was commended for his “seminal contributions to the […]

Alumnus Georgiy Akopov (PhD ’18 Kaner group) has been named as a recipient of the 2019 ACS-DIC Young Investigator Award. Georgiy was recognized by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Inorganic Chemistry (DIC) for his work on the synthesis and characterization of ultra-incompressible, superhard metals which he conducted with Professor Richard Kaner during his Ph.D. studies […]

Chemistry instructor Hủng Viêt Pham (PhD ’15 Houk group) reflects on his hometown of Little Saigon and his experiences as a Vietnamese American. In the short video, which is part of the Daily Bruin‘s “Faces of UCLA” video series, Pham reflects on growing up in Orange County as a first-generation Vietnamese American, his tight-knit community, and […]

Professor Michael Jung has been selected to receive the 13th AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research. The prestigious award is presented to researchers for outstanding, novel, and significant chemistry research, which has led to important contributions to the fields of basic cancer research, translational cancer research, or the treatment of patients […]

Department Chair Professor Catherine Clarke has been awarded a $100,000 Barth Syndrome Foundation (BSF) research grant to study lipid replacement therapy. Clarke will receive the grant over a two-year period for her the project titled “Deuterated polyunsaturated fatty acids as a protective therapy in the treatment of Barth syndrome.” Barth syndrome (BTHS) is a rare […]