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 […]

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposium 10 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF) on July 10, 2018. The CCHF is an NSF-funded Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) to which the Prof. Ken Houk’s group belongs.  Projected to students and postdocs via U-tube, the symposium featured the following talks: “Late Stage […]

Professors Hosea Nelson & Jose Rodriguez have been awarded a highly prestigious Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) R35 Grant from the NIH/NIGMS. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded Nelson and Rodriguez each more than $1.8 million over five years to support their research programs. […]

More than 80 scientists from around the world attended the International Congress on Theoretical Aspects of Catalysis (ICTAC) at UCLA June 24-28, 2018.  The conference, held at the UCLA Faculty Center, was organized by UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Professors Philippe Sautet and Anastassia Alexandrova with assistance from Divisional Assistant Stephanie Hotz. ICTAC is a biannual […]

Professor Sarah Tolbert will serve as Director of the SCALAR center which will seek to increase battery capacity, stability and safety. Tolbert holds faculty appointments in Chemistry & Biochemistry and in the UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Her current research interests include self-organized nanoscale materials for electronic, magnetic, optical, and structural applications, with a specific focus […]

Photos from the 2018 Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Commencement Ceremony and a video of Dr Harlan Amstutz’s commencement address are now available. At the ceremony on Saturday, June 16, 2018, the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry 2018 Alumni Award was presented to commencement speaker Dr. Harlan Amstutz (’53, MD ’56), founding director of the Joint […]