UCLA alum Ruth Warner Van Horn, the first female chemistry faculty member at Franklin & Marshall College, passed away on January 20, 2019, at the age of 100. Professor Emeritus […]

Professor Joanna Aizenberg (Harvard) visited UCLA on Wednesday, January 23, 2019, to give the Winter 2019 Distinguished Lecture. Over 300 faculty, students, and researchers attended Aizenberg’s lecture titled “Actuated ‘hairy’ […]

Our Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship Program offers UCLA undergraduates the opportunity to conduct research with a faculty mentor during the summer. Applications for Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Summer Research […]

Nanotech Energy, co-founded by Professor Richard Kaner and Maher El-Kady, clears huge hurdle in the production of high-quality graphene-based materials. Through its proprietary technology, Nanotech Energy, holder of the world’s […]

Former UCLA theoretical physical chemistry professor and alum Dr Andrew Hazi (’64) passed away on December 4, 2018 at the age of 77. Dr. Andrew Hazi received his B.S. degree […]

Professor Guillaume Chanfreau has been awarded a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35 Grant from the NIH/NIGMS. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Eric Scerri, world expert on the periodic table, discusses the 150th anniversary of the periodic table. On January 3, 2019, Scerri was interviewed on the […]

Graduate students Kevin Murray, Scott McConnell, and Rebeccah Warmack have been selected as 2018-19 Audree Fowler Fellows in Protein Science. The awards were announced at the Molecular Biology Institute’s 2018 […]