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 […]

On Tuesday, May 15, 2018, over 170 people gathered at the Luskin Center to celebrate the installation of six new endowed Chairs for the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. Select photos from the event can be viewed below and the complete set can be viewed on the photo gallery. The six new endowed Chairs celebrated […]

In Chemistry World, Laurence Lavelle is interviewed about placement of the Group 3 elements in the periodic table, and the d-block and f-block elements. In the article titled “New rationale for 15-element wide f block”, which was published in the May 21, 2018 issue of the Royal Society’s Chemistry World on-line magazine, Lavelle discussed the […]

The Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science (OCDS) held its second annual Spring Science and Engineering Showcase for local community college students.    On Saturday, May 19, 2018, OCDS volunteers hosted several local community college students at UCLA for a day-long symposium featuring a poster session by current UCLA undergraduate/graduate student researchers, lectures by diverse […]

Professor Benjamin Schwartz and graduate student Devon Widmer co-authored the paper featured in a recent issue of the prestigious journal Nature Chemistry. Widmer (pictured right), a sixth year graduate student, science writer, and recipient of the UCLA 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants, was first author of the paper titled “Solvents Can Control Solute Molecular […]