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 of the late Ken and Jeanie Trueblood and with matching funds from the department and Dean’s Office. “Neil’s enthusiastic commitment to the highest quality in […]

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 their mentors for their important contributions to the university’s interrelated missions of research, teaching, and service, Dr. Duyoung Min (Bowie group) and Dr. Calin Plesa […]

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 electronics” was published online in the prestigious journal Nature on October 3, 2018.  The research team was led by Duan, UCLA professor of chemistry and […]

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 innovative research from early career investigators. Sletten received the award for her proposal on new methods to image and treat diseases that have distinct metabolic […]

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 physics will develop and study molecules functionalized with optical cycling centers (MFOCCs), accelerating research into next generation chemical systems for quantum information storage and processing.  […]

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 whose poster, “A Holistic Approach to Healthcare in Maclovio Rojas, Mexico”, placed 3rd in the 2018 Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Undergraduate Student Poster […]

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 90 incoming transfer students to Young Hall 2033 for an informal reception where they met faculty, current students, student group leaders, and undergraduate advisors.  At […]

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; seven joining our Biochemistry, Molecular Biology (BMSB) graduate program, and 52 joining our chemistry graduate program. Students, faculty, and staff enjoyed pizza and beer at […]