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, […]

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 […]

Professor Richard Kaner and researcher Maher El-Kady have created a self-extinguishing device that uses body movement to determine when workers are in danger. The team’s study titled “Fire-retardant, Self-extinguishing Triboelectric […]

Undergraduate student Michelle Nguyen is the winner of the 2017-2018 Chem14A/B Excellence in Chemistry Book Award. A junior Physiological Science major, Michelle was presented the award by Dr. Laurence Lavelle at the […]

We are sad to report that Geraldine Gregory, widow of alum George Gregory (BA ’42), and longtime supporter of the department, passed away on March 7, 2019. Geraldine was the […]

Biochemistry graduate student Xiaofei “Fay” Lin (Hoffmann group) wins Audience Choice Award at the 5th Annual Grad Slam Final Competition. Lin gave her prize-winning three-minute talk titled “Decrypting the Immune […]

On March 11, 2019, Professor Daan Frenkel (University of Cambridge) gave the 5th annual Carolyn & Charles Knobler Lecture. The well-attended lecture, titled “Counting the Uncountable:Entropy Beyond Boltzmann”, was followed […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS) in recognition of his ground-breaking nanoscience research. Weiss holds a UC Presidential Chair and is […]