This summer, instructor Dr. Frank Ow taught chemistry to high school students through the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) at UCLA program. Established by the California Legislature in 1998, COSMOS aims to nurture future leaders in science, mathematics, and engineering. UCLA launched its COSMOS campus most recently in 2024, joining UC […]

Distinguished Kenneth N. Trueblood Professor Neil Garg was recently interviewed for the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Heritage Project. According to the Caltech website, the Caltech Heritage Project “captures, conveys, and celebrates Caltech’s impact around the world”. A Caltech alumnus, Garg obtained his Ph.D. in 2005 under the direction of Professor Brian Stoltz. From Caltech […]

The UCLA Molecular Instrumentation Center (MIC) is pleased to announce the opening of its newest lab, the High Throughput Synthesis and Catalysis Facility (HTSC). High throughput experimentation (HTE) has garnered increasing attention within the last few decades as a powerful approach to accelerate reaction discovery and optimization.  HTE allows for the screening of numerous  variables […]

Entropic Biosciences, Inc., a start-up biotech company founded at UCLA in Professor Paul Weiss’ group based on the thesis of alumnus Dr. Amir Nasajpour (Ph.D. ’23), is one of only five companies awarded funds for this year for a project developing a high-throughput 3D skin model for screening of chemicals and radiation insults. According to […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has given $19.8 million in renewal funding for the BioPACIFIC MIP, a UCLA–UC Santa Barbara collaboration advancing biobased materials through synthetic biology, chemistry, automation, and AI, co-directed by Professor Heather Maynard. UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry members Professors Abigail Doyle, Miguel Garcia-Garibay (Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences), and Yi […]

Chemistry Ph.D. candidate, U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Tillman Scholar, and facilitator for Veterans in STEM, Jason Q.L. Williams (P. Weiss group), is featured in a recent UCLA Newsroom article about his work with faculty to support student veterans pursuing research careers and the challenges posed by recent grant funding suspensions. Williams is working hard to […]

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry welcomes emerging pedagogy scholar Jazmin Aguilar-Romero, who joined the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Teaching Professor on July 1, 2025.  “The division of physical sciences enthusiastically welcomes Jazmin Aguilar-Romero to UCLA,” said Dean of Physical Sciences and Chemistry Professor Miguel Garcia-Garibay. “She has shown a tremendous commitment to providing […]

Dr. Gustavo G. Flores-Bernal has been selected for the University of California (UC) Alianza MX Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, beginning in the 2025–26 academic year. He will join Professor Osvaldo Gutierrez‘s group at UCLA to develop new chemical methods that use inexpensive, non-toxic, and widely available iron-based catalysts for sustainable pharmaceutical synthesis. The fellowship, awarded for […]