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 […]

Alumnus Harlan Amstutz (’53, MD ’56) has been selected for the 2018 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award.  Amstutz will accept the award and present his commencement address at the UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry Dr.graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 16, 2018 in the Court of Sciences. “UCLA has provided me with a long term stimulus […]

New Endowed Professors in General Chemistry, Albert Courey & Yung-Ya Lin, will work together to enhance the learning experience for life science undergrads.  Courey and Lin will bring together a collaborative team of instructors, including several of the department’s teacher-scholars and lecturers, and pedagogy experts from the UCLA Center for Education Innovation and Learning in […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry Graduate Student Association (CBGSA) members inspire young chemists at local elementary school science fair. At El Marino Elementary School’s annual science fair in Culver City on April 27, 2018, the volunteers demonstrated numerous scientific properties such as magnetism, hydrophobicity, and light diffraction. The children at the event learned about these properties through […]

Professor Ellen Sletten was presented with the 2018 UCLA Alpha Chi Sigma (AXΣ) Glenn Seaborg Award at the annual AXΣ Seaborg Banquet on May 5th.                     The event, held at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles, was attended by both members of Alpha Chi Sigma, UCLA […]