Our Undergraduate Summer Research Program offers UCLA undergraduates the opportunity to carry out research with a faculty mentor during the summer. Applications for Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Summer Research […]

UCLA chemist Professor Alexander Spokoyny is among 24 early-career scientists nationwide to be named a 2018 Cottrell Scholar.  Spokoyny will receive a $100,000 award for his project, “Atomically-Precise Nanomaterials Based […]

Professor Stephen Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was honored at the Hawthorne Lecture on January 31, 2018. In his lecture titled “Palladium-Based Methodology in Imaging and Bioconjugation”, Buchwald presented […]

Professor Carla Koehler was one of five researchers to speak at the prestigious “Mitochondria and Medicine: The 2017 Dr Paul Janssen Award Symposium” last year. A video of Koehler’s seminar, […]

Professor Jean-François Joanny (ESPCI Paris and Institut Curie Paris) gave the 4th annual Carolyn & Charles Knobler Lecture on January 22, 2018.   The lecture, entitled “Physics of Tissue Monolayers”, was […]

Professor Ken Houk is one of the featured speakers at a special symposium at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, LA on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. Theoretical & Computational […]

We are sad to report that emeritus Professor Roberts (Bob) Smith passed away peacefully at the age of 89 on January 25, 2018 following a brief illness. Please help us […]

We are sad to report that former long-time UCLA laboratory supervisor Kerstin E Stempel passed away on January 15, 2018. For 34 years Stempel served as a laboratory supervisor for […]