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: […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer and author Eric Scerri has been invited to present a public lecture at the prestigious Royal Institution of Great Britain. His lecture, titled “The periodic table: Its story and significance”, will take place on Thursday, July 20, 2017 from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Royal Institution of Great Britain Theater in […]

Undergraduate researcher Namrata Ramani (Kaner group) has been accepted to the Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholars Program.   “I am very fortunate to have been granted the Clare Boothe Luce Undergraduate Research Scholarship for the rest of my time here at UCLA, in which I’ll be able to further my research with the Kaner group, […]

Professor Jose Rodriguez has been named 2017 Searle Scholar.                                            One of 15 young scientists in the chemical and biological sciences to be named 2017 Searle Scholars, Rodriguez will be awarded funding to support his […]

AXS invites all interested undergraduates to come visit their Rush events on April 4th-7th, 5pm-7pm in Young Hall 2033. Alpha Chi Sigma (AXS), a professional chemistry co-ed fraternity for undergraduate students who have taken or are currently taking at least two chemistry classes at UCLA. The group strives to help their members achieve their ambitions […]