The Biophysical Society (BPS) has named Professor Juli Feigon its 2019 Founders Award winner. Feigon will be honored at the Society’s 63rd Annual Meeting at the Baltimore Convention Center on March 5, 2019, during the annual Awards Symposium. Feigon will be recognized for her courageous and creative work in the structural biology of DNA and […]

Professor Ohyun Kwon, an organic chemist, has been awarded the Boehringer Ingelheim Green Chemistry Award for 2018. Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. As part of their effort “to enhance basic research” in Green Chemistry, Boehringer Ingelheim’s Chemical Development Department will support research conducted in Professor Ohyun Kwon’s research […]

Joyann Barber, a PhD student in Professor Neil Garg’s group, has been awarded a 2018-2019 Bristol-Myers Squibb Graduate Fellowship in Synthetic Organic Chemistry.  The Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) fellowship awardees are chosen based on the graduate’s demonstrated academic and research achievements as well as the potential for significant future accomplishments. In addition to a monetary reward, […]

The team has discovered a chemical reaction that might someday be used to process petroleum waste into useful compounds. Their paper titled “Teaching an old carbocation new tricks: Intermolecular C–H insertion reactions of vinyl cations” was published in the July 27, 2018 issue of the prestigious journal Science. UCLA chemistry & Biochemistry graduate student Stasik […]

On July 24, 2018, the department hosted a reception for all undergraduate and high school students who conduct research in faculty labs.  Select photos from the event can be viewed below and a photo gallery from the event can be viewed here. The student researchers gathered with their faculty mentors, graduate student and postdoc mentors, […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova cohosted the 6th International Conference on Chemical Bonding (ICCB) in Hawaii this July. This year’s conference, which was sponsored in part by the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, was held in Kauai, Hawaii on July 13-17, 2018. UCLA chemistry & biochemistry Professors Ben Schwartz, Sarah Tolbert, Paul Weiss, and Philippe Sautet […]

Alumnus Robert (BS ’42) and Mae Carter have donated $100,000 to support the Women in Chemistry Initiative in the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. The initiative is meant to retain and/or recruit under represented faculty and/or postdoctoral scholars in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry with preference given to female faculty and/or postdoctoral scholars. […]

Professor Neil Garg, an organic chemist, has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) for 2018. The program recognizes outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession, and the ACS.  Garg joins other UCLA faculty members Kendall Houk, Richard Kaner, Charles Knobler, Arlene Russell, Joan Valentine, Paul Weiss, and Herbert Kaesz in […]