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 […]

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 […]

The RSC recognizes Professor Richard Kaner for his “outstanding contributions to solid-state synthesis, energy storage materials & super hard materials.” Established in 1947, the Centenary Prize commemorates the centenary of […]

Professor Jeffrey Zink was awarded the American Chemical Society Southern California Section’s highest honor, the Tolman Medal, on May 1, 2018. A photo gallery from the event can be viewed […]

Professor Heather Maynard has been selected for the award which honors her contribution to a diverse campus. Each year, the UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (CODEI) […]

Professor Dean Tantillo (PhD ’00, Houk) edits new book, Applied Theoretical Organic Chemistry, which features several UCLA connected chemists.  Now a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, […]

Professor Victoria Orphan (California Institute of Technology) gave the Spring 2018 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture on Friday, April 20.  Over 250 faculty, students, and researchers attended Orphan’s lecture […]

A paper by Professor Thomas Mason and PhD student Ha Seong Kim has been selected for the 2018 Rheologica Acta Publication Award. This paper, entitled “Entropic, electrostatic, and interfacial regimes […]