Professor Benjamin Schwartz gave the prestigious Musher Memorial Lecture at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on June 5. Schwartz’s lecture was titled “The Hydrated Electron Dilemma: To be or not to be in a Cavity?”. His host was Professor Shlomo Magdassi of the Casali Center for Applied Chemistry, the Institute of Chemistry and the Center […]

Carter Lantz, an incoming first-year Biochemistry graduate student, recently received a Best Undergraduate Poster Award at the 2017 ASMS Conference. The 65th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics was held in Indianapolis, Indiana, June 4-8, 2017. The American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) sponsors the annual conference that is attended by more than 6,500 scientists.  Carter, […]

Their gift will help to establish the Michael and Alice Jung Endowed Chair in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery. The purpose of the endowed chair is to enable UCLA to hire a faculty member who will conduct drug discovery research with the goal of producing new, life-saving drugs well into the future. Jung was part […]

Thirteen chemistry & biochemistry graduate students receive the 2017-2018 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship. The fellowship is intended to support doctoral students who are within one year of completing and filing their dissertation. It includes a $20,000 stipend plus standard tuition and fees (excluding nonresident tuition). Each year, approximately 200 Disseration Year Fellowships (DYF) […]

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 […]