Underserved middle school children with a passion for science and technology will compete in science fair at UCLA Ackerman Union this weekend. More than 80 students from three local middle schools will present their experiments at the event from 10 am to 2 pm on Saturday, April 22, 2017, in the UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom […]

Professor Jacqueline Barton (Caltech) gave the Spring 2017 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, April 19th. Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton is the Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry and Norman Davidson Leadership Chair of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. She presented her lecture, […]

Biochemistry professor Juli Feigon will receive the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award at the Protein Society’s annual symposium. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Feigon is being honored with the award in recognition of her exceptional contributions in protein science which profoundly influence our understand of biology. From UCLA Newsroom (by Joy McCreary): Society […]

Lavelle recently co-authored two solutions manuals, one for students and one for faculty, to accompany the “Chemical Principles” textbook. The books contain over 1000 pages of detailed solutions to over 2,500 questions and are highly informative to both students and faculty. Through the books students learn by example, and faculty appreciate the solutions to their […]

Many scientists from around the world attended the April 4th UCLA Research Showcase at the American Chemistry Society (ACS) National Meeting in San Francisco.                                    Professor Ken Houk welcomed the guests who represented alumni, friends, current faculty and students. […]

UCLA professor William Gelbart will be honored at the 2017 Seaborg Symposium and Medal Dinner on Saturday, November 18, 2017. The Seaborg Symposium is the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry’s annual celebration, centering around the science of the year’s Seaborg Medalist. For this year’s event we will have an afternoon symposium entitled “Viruses, from Self-Assembly […]

UC Riverside professor Eric Chronister (BS ’80) has been named Dean of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) College of Sciences. He will join UNLV on July 1, 2017.  Chronister has been a chemistry professor at the University of California, Riverside for 30 years, including nine years as chair of the department.  Chronister received […]

The findings of the team led by Professor Hosea Nelson were recently featured in Science and Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN). In the Science paper Prof. Hosea Nelson and graduate students Brian Shao, Alex Bagdasarian, and Stasik Popov, reported on their development of a class of intermolecular C–H arylation reactions that use catalysts made from more-abundant materials: […]