John (Jack) Roberts (BA ’41, PhD ’44, Seaborg medalist ‘91) died on October 29, 2016, of complications following a stroke. Roberts was one of the most influential chemists of the last 75 years, and his scientific education started at UCLA. A native of Los Angeles, Roberts was born on June 8, 1918. He graduated from Los […]

The innovative organic online tutorials are now being used by students and teachers around the world. Garg, an award winning UCLA organic chemistry professor, developed the program with his recently graduated Ph.D. student Dr. Tejas Shah who is now a Discovery Chemist at Dow AgroSciences in Indiana.Their goal was to help demystify organic chemistry, a […]

5th year graduate student Jesus Moreno was introduced to the industrial research career options for minority science students at the four-day event. “Jesus is a superb student, so it is nice to see his countless research accomplishments being rewarded like this by Dow,” said his research advisor Prof. Neil Garg. The 10th annual Building Engineering […]

The noted polymer physicist, Professor Alexander (Shura) Grosberg, presented the 10th annual Robert Scott lecture on October 17, 2016.   Grosberg, a professor of physics and mathematics at New York University, gave a talk titled “Polymer Physics and Chromatin”. His talk examined how simple universal concepts of polymer physics can be used to understand how […]

Professors David Eisenberg and Jose Rodriguez are part of the international team whose research may help reduce mosquito-carried diseases. The team has used X-rays to reveal the structure of a molecule that is toxic to disease-carrying mosquitoes. An article about their research was recently featured in the prestigious journal Nature. “De novo phasing with X-ray […]

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 […]