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 […]

On May 8, 2018, Professor Neil Garg and his students hosted a visit to UCLA by 25 science students from Valencia High School.   The students were joined by two of their science teachers, Ray Sanchez, a personal friend of Garg’s, and UCLA alumna Tamara Desso ’11. In addition to touring Garg’s laboratory and seeing demonstrations […]

On May 8, 2018, the Houk group hosted a virtual symposium on synthetic organic chemistry featuring talks by Sarah Reisman (Caltech) and Phil Baran (Scripps).   The first quarterly American Chemical Society (ACS)-DOC virtual symposium, featuring two total-synthesis “stars”, was viewed “live” by students and postdocs in Young Hall 2033 conference room via YouTube. Professor Sarah Reisman, California […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova and alum Dr Mai-Anh Ha’s work on endothermic cooling of hypersonic jets featured in Chemical & Engineering News. The research was the result of collaboration between Alexandrova (pictured above), her former graduate student Dr. Mai-Anh Ha (Ph.D.’17) (pictured right), currently a Directors Postdoctoral Fellow in National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Professor […]