Professor Heather Maynard has been elected a 2017 Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering (PMSE) Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Maynard’s election reflects the recognition of the many impactful […]

Professor Kimberly Prather (UC San Diego/Scripps) gave the Winter 2017 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture on Monday, January 23rd. Prof. Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at Scripps Institution […]

Physical chemistry professor Sarah Tolbert has been named a fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Members of the Royal Society of Chemistry are required to have made an […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate students Brendan Amer and Jeff Vinokur have been selected as 2016 Audree Fowler Fellows in Protein Science. They will present their research at the Molecular […]

Alumnus Caltech crystallographer Richard Marsh (PhD’50, McCullough) passed away on January 3, 2017, at the age of 94. After receiving his degree in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), […]

The term chair, established by Professor Jeff Zink and his wife, Helo, will foster young faculty starting their careers at UCLA. In her announcement about the gift, Department Chair Catherine […]

Three of chemist & author Eric Scerri’s books are included in the Top 25 Philosophy of Science Books Published in 2016. The list is published annually by scientist and author […]

Graduate student Elaine Qian (Spokoyny group) led the interdisciplinary team whose research was recently featured in Nature Chemistry. The paper titled “Atomically precise organomimetic cluster nanomolecules assembled via perfluoroaryl-thiol SNAr […]