Professor Emeritus M. Frederick Hawthorne is among twelve scientists President Obama selected to receive the National Medal of Science, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government upon scientists. […]

Professor Tim Deming and Professor Sebastien Leccomandoux, from the University of Bordeaux, have organized the inaugural UBordeaux-UCLA Workshop on Polymers, to be held January 31-February 1 at the Getty Villa, […]

Richard (Dick) Gillespie, an alumnus and long-time staff member in the department, passed away in his sleep on Friday, January 25 at the age of 90. Dick was an extremely […]

Professor Raphael Levine will be awarded the 2012 Israel Chemical Society (ICS) Gold Medal for his outstanding contributions to the field of chemistry. Professor Levine will be honored for his […]

Professor Paul Weiss and co-workers were awarded a $1 million W.M. Keck Foundation grant to fund research in uses of “compressive sensing.” Professor Paul Weiss, Andrea Bertozzi, director of computational […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate (BS, PhD)  Prof. Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague has been chosen as the next director of the NSF Chemistry Division. Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague is a professor and chair of the […]

The S.T. Li Foundation has awarded Professor Neil Garg with the 2012-2014 Li Prize for Achievements in Science and Technology. The award is given to a distinguished scholar in a […]

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