Video and select photos from the 2017 Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Commencement Ceremony are now available for viewing. At the ceremony on Saturday, June 17, 2017, the UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry 2017 Alumni award was presented to commencement speaker Dr. Sep Sarshar ’89, Principal, Peritus Partners. Sarshar was joined at the event by several […]

Professor Xiangfeng Duan has been selected by the International Society of Electrochemistry as the winner of the Zhaowu Tian Prize for Energy Electrochemistry. The Society selected Duan for the award in recognition of his group’s “recent advancement on the design of highly efficient electrocatalysts and electrochemical energy storage devices and for their development of a […]

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposium 07 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF) on July 18, 2017. The CCHF is an NSF-funded Center for Chemical Innovation (CCI) to which the Prof. Ken Houk’s group belongs.  Projected to students and postdocs via U-tube, the symposium featured the following talks: “Bringing Modern […]

Professors Richard Kaner and Sarah Tolbert are the recipients of the rare and coveted 2017 National Science Foundation (NSF) Special Creativity Award. The two-year NSF Creativity Extension will be for their NSF funded project titled “Designing New Superhard Metal Borides”. The collaborative project seeks to understand the structure and bonding in metallic borides, some of […]

Thirty-eight members of the 2017 Chemistry and Biochemistry graduate cohort will be participating in research rotations this summer. The students will be working in twenty-seven different labs in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Twenty-six of these students arrived on Monday, July 10, 2017 for the Summer Research Orientation meeting where they were introduced […]

We are sad to report that Emeritus Professor Verne Norman Schumaker passed away on July 6, 2017 at age 87. Please help us to support The Verne Schumaker Student Support Fund to support undergraduate and graduate student research fellowships. “Verne was a wonderful colleague and friend, a great teacher and mentor to students, and a […]

The first seminar of the 2017 Biochemistry Summer Seminar Series, organized by the Biochemistry Graduate Student Association (gBSA), was held on July 7, 2017. Dr. Xiaoyu Xia, Precision Medicine Project Manager at City of Hope (Duarte, CA), was the first speaker. Dr. Xia, who received her Ph.D. in 2015 at UCLA working with Professor Jorge […]

Brian McVerry (PhD ’16 Kaner group) is featured in recent Los Angeles Times article about UCLA’s contribution to the creation of many businesses.  McVerry is the co-founder of Hydrophilix, Inc., a new company that is seeking ways to improve lithium ion batteries. As a UCLA graduate student he conducted research in Professor Richard Kaner‘s group.   […]