UCLA researcher Steven J. Jonas M.D./Ph.D. (Paul Weiss group) was selected for a 2017 Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) Young Investigator Grant. Jonas’ grant is the first ALSF for Childhood […]

The UCLA Center for Laboratory Safety, directed by Professor Craig Merlic, has received a 2017 CSHEMA Innovation Award. UCCLS executive director Merlic, a UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]