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 Ruth Warner Van Horn was the first female faculty member in the chemistry department at Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) in Lancaster, PA and was […]

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’ surfaces: En route for adaptive, homeostatic materials” in the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute auditorium.  A photo gallery from the event can be viewed here and […]

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 Fellowships are now being accepted. The chemistry or biochemistry faculty mentor must agree to supervise the student during the summer. For more information and/or to […]

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 first graphene patent and producer of graphene, graphene oxide and graphene super-batteries, is now able to produce graphene with an unsurpassed surface area of over 2,500 […]

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 in physical chemistry from UCLA in 1964, and his Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Chicago in 1967.  After spending one year as […]

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 National Institutes of Health, has awarded Chanfreau $1.97 million over five years to support his research program which is focused on understanding how genes regulated […]

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 UK’s BBC Radio 4 about the 150th anniversary of the periodic table which is celebrated in 2019.  The BBC Inside Science interview can be downloaded […]

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 Student Awards Ceremony in Boyer Hall on Tuesday, December 18, 2018. About Dr. Audree Fowler Dr. Audree Fowler (pictured top left) received her B.S. in […]