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 […]

Several chemistry and biochemistry undergraduate researchers presented posters at the event – three were awarded the prestigious Science Dean’s Prize. As part of the UCLA Research Poster Day, faculty judges award the Science Dean’s Prize to senior poster presenters for “excellence in presentation of their faculty-mentored research”. This year our undergraduate researchers Mai Abdusamad (Torres […]

The Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science (OCDS) hosted students from El Camino College, Los Angeles City College, and Pasadena City College. The Spring Science and Engineering Showcase event is a part of the ongoing program by OCDS to encourage and help community college students pursue a career in the sciences. The visiting students were greeted with […]

Professor Jose Rodriguez has been selected as a Beckman Young Investigator by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. He will use his Beckman funding to improve our understanding and application of advanced electron microscopy methods including electron diffraction for the purposes of revealing new and important macromolecular structures and informing of their function. Rodriguez joined […]

Professor Sabeeha Merchant and researcher Sean Gallaher are part of the team whose research could lead to advances in biofuels and medicine. Plant biologists and biochemists from UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco have produced a gold mine of data by sequencing the genome of a green alga called Chromochloris zofingiensis. A distinguished professor […]