Fourteen chemistry & biochemistry graduate student researchers receive the 2018-2019 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). The fellowship is intended to support doctoral students who are within one year […]

Four dynamic speakers are scheduled for our 2018-19 Distinguished Lecture Series: George Whitesides, David Schuster, Joanna Aizenberg, & Zhenan Bao. The UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture Series is a […]

On June 4th, leading nanoscience researcher Professor Mostafa El-Sayed (Georgia Institute of Technology) gave the 2018 Daniel Kivelson Lecture.  A standing-room-only crowd attended El-Sayed’s lecture titled “Nanotechnology Enables Hot Gold Nanorods […]

On Thursday, October 18, 2018, Professors George Whitesides (Harvard) and David Schuster (NYU) will present the 2018 John D Roberts Lecture at UCLA. The event, which will be held at […]

First-year graduate student and US Marine Corps veteran Zeeshan Parvez (Spokoyny group) has been named a Tillman Scholar for the class of 2018. Parvez is among an elite group of […]

The groundbreaking research, led by Professor Juli Feigon, was recently published in the prestigious journal Cell. The paper titled “Structure of Telomerase with Telomeric DNA” was published in the May […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry organic chemists engaged future scientists at the 4th annual Warner Science Slam on May 20, 2018. Several hundred children and their families attended the outreach event […]

The UCLA Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching has selected Professor Zhao Li for a 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty. “Dr. Li is an exceptionally engaging and effective teacher […]