Professor Paul Weiss has been selected to receive the 2016 SCALACS Tolman Medal.             The medal is awarded each year by the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society (SCALACS) in recognition of the medalist’s outstanding contributions to chemistry.  Weiss will be presented with the medal at an award […]

Undergraduate researcher Paige Curson (Kaner group) has been accepted to the Clare Boothe Luce Research Scholars Program.   A chemistry junior, Curson conducts research in the lab of UCLA inorganic chemistry professor Dr. Richard Kaner. She will receive funding to carry out her research on new membranes for purifying water as well as for research […]

Our Undergraduate Summer Research Program offers UCLA undergraduates the opportunity to carry out research with a faculty mentor during the summer. Applications for Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Summer Research Fellowships are now being accepted. The deadline to apply is May 1st and the chemistry or biochemistry faculty mentor must agree to supervise the student […]

Alumnus Larry Davis (BS Biochemistry ’77, MS Biological Chemistry ’79) was recently featured in Los Angeles Times article about the UCLA “Frisbee Cheer” he created. Davis received his B.S. in Chemistry in 1977, went on to receive his M.S. in Biological Chemistry in 1979, and later his law degree. An unofficial UCLA Bruins alumni cheerleader, Davis first […]

Four chemistry & biochemistry graduate students have received highly competitive 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards. In addition, two current graduate students and three alumni received NSF Honorable Mentions. Graduate students David Boyer (Eisenberg group), Emily Cosco (Sletten Group), Jacob Dander (Garg Group), and Ethan Rosser (Jung/Radu Groups) were awarded a 2017 NSF Graduate Research […]

On March 4th, the Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science (OCDS) hosted students from Moorpark College for lab tours and a graduate student panel. The event is a part of the ongoing program by OCDS to encourage and help community college students pursue a career in the sciences. The day started off with lab tours […]

UCLA ranked 9th in the subject of chemistry in the recently released QS World University Rankings.  QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) a British company specializing in education and study abroad. The primary aim of the QS World University Rankings is to help students make informed […]

Alumnus Professor Thomas Poon (PhD ’95 Foote group) has been named Loyola Marymount University’s next executive vice president and provost. Poon received his B.S. in chemistry from Fairfield University and his Ph.D. in chemistry at UCLA under the direction of Christopher S. Foote. He was a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Postdoctoral Fellow at Colby College before […]