Biochemistry undergraduate student awarded Women in STEM Scholarship

9 years ago

UCLA biochemistry undergraduate student Han Ngo is one of two women to receive PayScale’s Women in STEM Scholarship. Out of over 7,000 applicants the compensation software company has awarded two […]

Biochemistry undergraduate student awarded Women in STEM Scholarship
April 29

2016 Alumni Award

9 years ago

Physician Richard Buller, Vice President of Oncology Clinical Development at Pfizer, selected for the 2016 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award. Dr. Buller will accept the award and present his […]

2016 Alumni Award
April 25

The 2016 M. Frederick Hawthorne Lecture

9 years ago

Professor Marcetta Darensbourg (Texas A&M University) was honored at the April 20, 2016 event. Prof. Darensbourg’s seminar, titled “Hydrogenase Inspired Bioorganiometallic Chemistry”, took place at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) […]

The 2016 M. Frederick Hawthorne Lecture
April 22

Freshman Bruin Day 2016

9 years ago

Faculty, staff & student volunteers met admitted undergraduate students & their parents at the Saturday, April 16th event. The Freshman Bruin Day 2016 was for admitted undergraduate students for the […]

Freshman Bruin Day 2016
April 18

ChemComm “Lightning Talk” prize winner at the first UCSCS symposium

9 years ago

Postdoctoral scholar Liban Saleh (Spokoyny group) won the award for his short (~ five minutes) research presentation at the symposium.         The University of California Symposium for […]

ChemComm “Lightning Talk” prize winner at the first UCSCS symposium
April 15

Research team led by Professor James Bowie develops “synthetic biochemistry” that bypasses the need for cells

9 years ago

The research, which holds promise for the production of biofuels & new pharmaceuticals, was described in paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The paper titled “A synthetic biochemistry module for production […]

Research team led by Professor James Bowie develops “synthetic biochemistry” that bypasses the need for cells
April 12

2nd Annual Warner Science Slam

9 years ago

OCDS and SMACS students engaged future scientists at the 2nd annual Warner Science Slam on April 18, 2016.   The Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) and the […]

2nd Annual Warner Science Slam
April 12

Garcia-Garibay and Houk research teams construct a crystalline fractal molecular rotor

9 years ago

Graduate student Xing Jiang (Garcia-Garibay group) (pictured) is the lead author of the paper featured in Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN). The paper titled “Crystal Fluidity Reflected by Fast Rotational […]

Garcia-Garibay and Houk research teams construct a crystalline fractal molecular rotor
April 8