Students are following a new curriculum which allows them to pursue independent group research projects rather than simply following established lab procedures.  The curriculum for the upper division “Inorganic and […]

In the prestigious journal, Kosuri’s team of scientists report on the innovative low-cost method of building gene sequences which they developed. The new technique could enable scientists in any typical […]

Professors Ellen Sletten and Hosea Nelson are two of five UCLA assistant professors selected to receive prestigious 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships.   Profiles of the UCLA 2018 Sloan Research Fellows, in […]

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 […]