Graduate student Devon Widmer (Schwartz group) has been selected for the 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. Widmer is one of five awardees selected from a large field of extraordinary nominees. She will be recognized at the annual “Andrea L. Rich Night to Honor Teaching” dinner in the Fall 2018 quarter. Awardees receive a […]

Houk team joins Nobelist Feringa and Wolf Prize Laureate Fujita to discover a Winstein/Roberts non-classical cation in an unexpected place. The latest issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society features a paper by Professor Kendall Houk’s group (Pier Alexandre Champagne, postdoc now in Ottawa), the Ben Feringa group in Netherlands (Feringa was 2016 […]

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 policy experts have advanced to the finals of the $20 million NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE by successfully creating a near carbon dioxide-neutral version of concrete […]

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 Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS), along with Denise Mantonya, Tim Mahlanza and Corinne Allas.  Admitted students and their families seemed to particularly enjoy […]

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” is considered by many to be the world’s best science broadcast program. Weiss was interviewed for the one-hour radio show when Williams recently visited the […]

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 went to Oberlin College where he began his serious study of chemistry under the tutelage of famed chemical educator Professor J. Arthur Campbell.  After receiving […]

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 Awards were presented to Dr. Audree Fowler (BS ’56, Ph.D. ’63), Dr. Atsuko Fujimoto (Ph.D. ’63), Dr. Margaret Holzer (Ph.D. ’64), and Dr. Kate Murashige […]

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’ method allows biochemists to see proteins in remarkable detail Technique that uses cryo-electron microscopy should help scientists better understand disease-causing proteins Research from UCLA’s Tamir […]