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 who truly cares about her students’ learning success and truly deserves the honor of the Distinguished Teaching Award” said Department Chair Catherine Clarke. “She is […]

In July 2018 we will welcome two alumni as our new 2018-2021 Postdoctoral Teacher-Scholars and we will bid farewell to one of our 2016-2019 Postdoctoral Teacher-Scholars.  Paul D. Boyer Teacher-Scholar Dr. Agape Awad (B.S. ’13, M.S. ’14, Ph.D. ’18) and William F. Libby Teacher-Scholar Dr. Christian Beren (Ph.D. ’17) will join our Postdoctoral Teacher-Scholar instructional faculty. They were chosen […]

We are sad to report that UCLA Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry Paul Boyer, who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in chemistry, passed away on June 2, 2018 at age 99. In collaboration with the Boyer family, the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the UCLA College, Division of Physical Sciences, held a memorial service to […]

Biochemistry senior Chloe Cheng is among three undergraduates recognized nationally by the Alpha Chi Sigma Scholar Award honorable mention. The award committee chose Cheng for the honor because her nomination “deemed deserving of special recognition”.   Cheng is currently a fourth-year UCLA undergraduate Biochemistry major and works as an undergraduate research associate in Professor Caius Radu’s […]

Professors Anastassia Alexandrova and Margot Quinlan receive inaugural Undergraduate Research Week Faculty Mentor Awards. As part of the UCLA Undergraduate Research Week held May 21-25, 2018, undergraduate student researchers who presented posters at the Research Poster Day were invited to nominate their mentor for a Faculty Mentor award to recognize the meaningful role their mentor has […]

Professors Xiangfeng Duan and Neil Garg have been named two of 31 National Finalists for the 2018 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists. Chosen from a pool of 286 nominated promising scientific researchers aged 42 years and younger from America’s top academic and research institutions, Duan is one of 11 Physical Sciences & Engineering finalists and […]

Over 40 undergraduate researchers from the department presented posters at the UCLA Research Poster Day, six were awarded the prestigious Science Dean’s Prize.  Photos of the Science Dean’s Prize winners can be viewed below and more photos from the event can be viewed on the on-line photo gallery. At the event, which is part of […]

The Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) funding enables Professor Michael Jung’s group to successfully adopt the use of waterless condensers in their organic synthesis work. A grant from the TGIF UCLA sustainability initiative enabled the Jung lab to purchase six special high efficiency air-cooled waterless condensers (FindenserTM) for use in their research labs which resulted in […]