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 the society’s founding in 1841, and recognizes outstanding international chemists who are also exceptional communicators. Update: An article about Kaner’s award was published in the […]

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 here and select photos can be viewed below.  Over 65 faculty, students, alumni and staff attended the Richard C. Tolman Award dinner at the UCLA […]

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) committee honors one undergraduate student, graduate student, staff and up to four faculty members for their contributions to furthering a diverse, impartial and inclusive environment […]

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, Davis, Dr. DeanTantillo received his Ph.D. in chemistry at UCLA in 2000 under the direction of Professor Kendall Houk and Professor Craig Merlic. Tantillo was awarded […]

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 titled “Syntrophy, Interspecies Electron Transfer, and Sulfate-Coupled Methane Oxidation: Fueling Chemosynthetic Life in the Deep Sea” in the Kenneth Trueblood Lecture Hall CS50. A photo […]

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 in concentrated disordered ionic emulsions,” was published in the June 9, 2016 issue of Rheologica Acta. Mason was the senior corresponding author and Kim was […]

Professor Ken Houk and Dr Jacob Sanders in his group have provided computational evidence to support a new mechanism of action for FAD. Flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) is a well-known enzymatic cofactor that catalyzes a variety of oxidative transformations in biochemical pathways.   The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Dr Eric Scerri is co-editor of a recently released new book on the periodic table. Published by Oxford University Press (OUP), the book titled “Mendeleev to Oganesson – A Multidisciplinary Perspective on the Periodic Table” was released in March 2018. “Since 1969, the international chemistry community has only held conferences […]