The 2016 International Conference on Chemical Bonding (ICCB) was featured extensively in a recent issue of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN). The article titled “The Art of the Chemical Bond” was published in the October 17th issue of C&EN. The ICCB conference, held on July 14-18, 2016, in Lihue, Hawaii, was sponsored, in part, by […]

Professor Douglas Rees (Caltech/HHMI) gave the Fall 2016 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture on Monday, October 10th. Rees, the Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and Dean of Graduate Studies presented his lecture, “Ironing Out the Nitrogenase Mechanism” at the UCLA California […]

Third year graduate student Joyann Barber finds time to follow her skating passion, while also pursuing graduate studies in organic chemistry. Barber conducts research in the lab of Prof. Neil Garg and is also a trainee in the NIH-funded UCLA Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Predoctoral Research Training Program.  She just recently competed in the 2016 Artistic […]

The piece, “Nano Day: Celebrating the Next Decade of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology”, was promoted by the ACS as their “editors’ choice” top paper of the day.   Weiss is the Editor-in-Chief of ACS Nano, an international forum for the communication of comprehensive articles on nanoscience and nanotechnology research at the interfaces of chemistry, biology, materials science, […]

“A Tale of Seven Scientists and a New Philosophy of Science” is Scerri’s 4th book published by Oxford University Press. In the book he presents a completely original account of the nature of scientific progress. It consists of a holistic and unified approach in which science is seen as a living and evolving single organism. […]

We have an exciting group of speakers scheduled for our 2016-17 Distinguished Lecture Series: Professors Douglas Rees, Kimberly Prather and Jacqueline Barton. The series begins with the Fall 2016 lecture on Monday, October 10, 2016 by Dr. Douglas Rees, Roscoe Gilkey Dickinson Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, HHMI Investigator, titled “Ironing Out the […]

Professor Emeritus of the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Sir Fraser Stoddart has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He received the award jointly with Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Bernard L. Feringa “for their design and production of molecular machines” on October 5, 2016. “They have developed molecules with controllable movements, which can […]

Five UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty are among the most influential scientists in their fields for 2016, as determined by Thomson Reuters. Those recognized were Xiangfeng Duan and Ric Kaner for Materials Science, David Eisenberg for Biology & Biochemistry, and Ken Houk and Jeff Zink for Chemistry.    The purpose of the Thomson Reuters Highly […]