On June 9, students from Professor Craig Merlic’s Honors Seminar for Chemistry 89 held a poster session focused on new medicines. At the event held in UCLA’s Court of Sciences patio, 44 students from the Honors Seminar for Chemistry and Biochemistry class presented 22 posters on drugs recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The […]

We welcome MIC’s new mass spectrometry scientist Yu Chen to UCLA.                                 “We are so pleased to recruit Dr. Yu Chen,” Department Chair Prof. Catherine F. Clarke said. “Our students will benefit from his more than ten years of experience […]

We welcome our new 2017-2020 Postdoctoral Teacher-Scholars, who will join the department in July 2017. Dr. Rachel Prado and Dr. Roshini Ramachandran will join our Postdoctoral Teacher-Scholar instructional faculty. They were chosen from a competitive pool of many applicants. Our Postdoctoral Teacher-Scholar program allows postdoctoral scholars to experience research and teaching at the same time […]

Professor Paul S Weiss awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant, allowing him to visit the Czech Republic to provide his expertise in nanoscience and nanotechnology. “I am honored and humbled to be awarded a Fulbright Specialist Grant. We have hosted a number of extraordinary Fulbright Scholars in our laboratory and these awards have led to lasting […]

Professor Paul S Weiss was awarded the American Chemical Society Southern California Section’s highest honor, the Tolman Medal, on May 24, 2017. Select photos from the event can be viewed below and the complete set can be viewed on the photo gallery. Over 130 faculty, students, alumni and staff attended the Richard C. Tolman Award […]

Professor David Eisenberg discussed his protein structure research in a recent interview with science journalist Robyn Williams on the popular radio program. The Australian Broadcasting Corp’s “The Science Show” is considered by many people to be the world’s best science broadcast program. Eisenberg was interviewed for the one-hour radio show when Williams recently visited the […]

The department congratulates Professor Craig Merlic on his promotion to the rank of full professor. The rank of Full Professor is the highest rank that a professor can achieve (other than a named or administrative position) and is conferred upon sustained and distinguished track record of scholarly achievement within one’s university and academic discipline.   […]

Professor Andrews presented her “TED-type talk” on chemical signaling in the brain to the ACS Board of Directors and national meeting attendees. In her talk titled “The Brain is More Than a Computer”, which Andrews presented at the April ACS meeting in San Francisco, she highlighted the important roles of chemistry in the brain and that chemists […]