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 […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Eric Scerri gives opening plenary lecture at the 22nd International Conference on the Philosophy of Chemistry in Bristol.  On Monday, July 16, 2018, Scerri gave the morning keynote opening lecture at the conference held at the Pugsley Lecture Theatre at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. The focus […]

Professor Yi Tang is co-leader of the UCLA team of engineers and scientists to discover a new and potentially highly effective type of weed killer. The study titled “Resistance-gene-directed discovery of a natural-product herbicide with a new mode of action” was published in the July 11, 2018, issue of the prestigious journal Nature.  From UCLA Newsroom (by […]

Hosted by the Graduate Biochemistry Student Association (gBSA), series features alumni career talks & research talks by postdocs & PhD students. Starting July 20, 2018, the seminars will take place every Friday afternoon from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Mol Sci 3440. Each seminar will be followed by a social hour with refreshments. (There will […]