Professor Neil Garg has been named the Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry. Established in August 2017, the chair was funded by a gift from the estate […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry postdoctoral fellows and faculty were honored at the 2018 UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Scholars Award Ceremony on September 25th. At the ceremony, which honors UCLA’s postdoctoral scholars and […]

The team reported on the development of a scalable and low-cost solution-based approach to making high-performance flexible TFTs and electronic circuits. The study titled “Solution-processable 2D semiconductors for high-performance large-area […]

Professor Ellen Sletten receives prestigious $1.5 million New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.   The NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, established in 2007, supports unusually […]

Team from UCLA, USC, Caltech and Harvard, led by UCLA physicist Wesley Campbell, awarded 2.7 million 3-year DOE Quantum Information Science Research Award.  With this funding, faculty across chemistry and […]

Biochemistry undergraduate student Rishi Makkar was part of the UCLA team whose poster placed 3rd in the 2018 APRU Undergraduate Student Poster Contest. Rishi was one of five UCLA undergraduates […]

On the day before instruction officially began, the department held its fourth annual welcome reception for new undergraduate students.   The undergraduate office invited over 400 incoming first-year majors and over […]

A welcome party for first-year Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate students was held in the Court of Sciences patio on Friday, September 21, 2018. This year, we welcome 59 new graduate students; […]