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 Cancer Research award to a UCLA pediatric physician-scientist in over 15 years. He will conduct his research along with the Young Investigator recipients from 12 […]

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 his colleagues were recognized for their work with the UCCLS. Professor Nancy Wayne (UCLA Physiology), Chair of the UCCLS advisory board and associate vice chancellor […]

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 […]