Professor Richard Kaner and PhD student Cheng-Wei Lin are part of the UCLA Carbon Upcycling team which has developed an eco-friendly substitute for concrete. The team of engineers, scientists and […]

Saturday, April 14th was the annual Freshman Bruin Day for 2018 for newly admitted undergraduate students. The Chemistry & Biochemistry booth had student volunteers from Alpha Chi Sigma {AXE} and Student […]

Professor Paul Weiss discussed the future of nanoscience and nanotechnology in an interview with science journalist Robyn Williams on the popular radio program. The Australian Broadcasting Corp’s “The Science Show” […]

University of Kentucky Professor Emeritus Robert Guthrie, former Cram postdoc and UCLA chemistry lecturer, died on February 13, 2018 at the age of 81. After graduating from high school, Guthrie […]

The first four women to receive PhDs from the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry were honored at the 2018 Departmental Awards Ceremony on April 9th. The Inaugural Alumni Legacy […]

BMSB PhD student Yuxi Liu and her mentor Professor Todd Yeates have reported an important new advance in the field of cryo-electron microscopy. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): ‘Scaffolding’ […]

A photo gallery of the 2018 Departmental Awards Ceremony and a list of the award recipients are now available online.    The annual Departmental Awards Ceremony was held at the […]

The mechanisms by which muscone and analogs produce the aroma known as musk, a common component of perfumes, were reported by the research team. UCLA Visiting Scholar Professor Eric Block (University […]