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 […]

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 […]

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 […]