First-year chemistry graduate student Daniel Robertson (Tolbert group) has been awarded a prestigious UCLA Alumni Association Fellowship. The award, which is funded by a grant from the UCLA Foundation, was given to Daniel by the UCLA College of Letters and Sciences in recognition of his achievements.  Daniel “Danny” Robertson is a first-year materials chemistry graduate student […]

Organic chemistry graduate students Sarah Anthony, Daniel Estabrook, Kersti Caddell Haatveit, and Stasik Popov have been named the 2019 Senior Foote Fellows.   The Christopher S. Foote Fellowship in Organic Chemistry recognizes organic students’ accomplishments in graduate studies and research as well as their performance on the qualifying examination for the Ph.D. degree. The recipients, who […]

Kendall Houk, UCLA’s Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry, gave the Andrew Steitwieser lecture at UC Berkeley on January 29, 2019.   In Houk’s lecture titled “Mechanisms and Dynamics of Pericyclic Reactions – Homage to Andy Streitwieser”, he described his ongoing research to explore and visualize how reactions occur and what features of molecular control their reactivity […]

The new lab coats are made of a highly protective light-weight fabric which was developed by a former UCLA organic chemistry graduate student. The department was able to purchase a large supply of the new innovative lab coats through a financial collaboration with the UCLA Office of Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S).   UCLA is one […]

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 […]