A photo gallery of the 2016 Departmental Awards Ceremony and a list of the award recipients is now available online.                        The annual Departmental Awards Ceremony was held at the CNSI auditorium on Tuesday, December 6th. In addition to recognizing the efforts of our accomplished […]

A year-end message from Ignacio Martini, Interim Director of the UCLA Molecular Instrumentation Center (MIC). Although 2016 was a challenging year for MIC, marked by the retirement of our long-standing director Dr. Jane Strouse and the tragic passing of our dear colleague Dr. Dafni Amirsakis, we have been fortunate enough to count on incredible support […]

To honor Jack Roberts, we have established the John Roberts Endowed Term Chair in Chemistry, for which we are currently fundraising. It is our goal to honor and perpetuate Jack Roberts’ legacy at UCLA and his extraordinary career at Caltech. This Chair recognizes the tremendous impact that he and his group had on the field […]

Professor Sarah Tolbert & alumus John Cook are part of team whose research could lead to laptop computer batteries that fully charge in minutes. The team’s research into oxide supercapacitors was described in a paper recently published in the December 5th issue of the journal Nature Materials. Tolbert and recent doctoral graduate Cook (pictured right) […]

Constructed nearly 25 years ago, the lower division organic laboratories, used for Chem 30BL & Chem 30CL classes, were in desperate need of renovation.  The renovation, which will provide the students in the laboratory classes with a much more modern educational experience, is now underway and completion is expected in time for the Spring 2017 […]

Photos from the 2016 Seaborg Symposium & Medal Award Dinner honoring Professor Michael Jung are now available for viewing. The full photo gallery is available here. On Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, Prof. Michael Jung, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, was honored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry with the 2016 Glenn T. Seaborg […]

On Friday, November 18, 2016, the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry held its third annual Outreach and Diversity Day. The purpose of Diversity Day is to invite area undergraduates to our department and get a first-hand experience of our facilities and faculty; hopefully yielding applications to our graduate programs. Twenty prospective graduate students from […]

We are sad to report that Jean “Jeanie” Turner Trueblood passed away peacefully on Monday, November 28, 2016 at the age of 97. Jeanie was an active member of the UCLA community for decades.  She was married to UCLA chemistry professor Dr. Kenneth Nyitray Trueblood (right) until his death in 1998. Ken was a leading […]