Matthew Fontana (Schwartz group) has been selected for the 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award for Teaching Assistants. Fontana is one of five awardees selected from a large field of extraordinary nominees. […]

On Saturday, April 29, the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry hosted the annual ACS Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference.  Over 270 undergraduates, graduates and faculty attended, along with family […]

Andrea Liu is the fifth female faculty member associated with the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry to be elected to the Academy. The former UCLA physical chemistry professor, now […]

Biochemistry senior Nguyen Pham (Catherine Clarke group) is a winner in ASBMB’s 21st annual Undergraduate Poster Competition.  Nguyen’s poster, titled “A conserved putative kinase is required for coenzyme Q biosynthesis: […]

Mary Waddington (Spokoyny group) was selected for the AFRL 2017 Space Scholars Program to work on ionic liquid tailoring for thin conductive film electrolysis.  Such films hold promise in tunable […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been awarded the 2017 Jacques Beaulieu Excellence Research Chair by the National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS), Canada. According to the INRS announcement, the award is […]

Professor Kevan Shokat (University of California, San Francisco/HHMI) gave the 2017 Donald Cram Lecture on April 27th.  Prof. Kevan M. Shokat’s lecture, titled “Chemical Strategies for Drugging Undruggable Targets in […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry welcomes Justin Caram, who will join our department as an assistant professor of physical chemistry this July. Professor Caram will take up residency […]