“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 […]

History was made this year when we welcomed 94 new graduate students to the department!    It is the largest cohort the department has ever had with 11 biochemistry students and 83 chemistry students. Close to half of the new incoming cohort are women and, this quarter, the department has added an 8th specialization – […]

We welcome three new Postdoctoral Teacher-Scholars and bid farewell to Sharon Neufeldt, now a faculty member at Montana State University.  Our Postdoctoral Teacher-Scholar program allows postdoctoral scholars to experience research and teaching at the same time as a way to prepare them for future faculty positions. Farewell and congratulations to Sharon Neufeldt Our first Cram […]

Professors Shimon Weiss and Jose Rodriguez are involved in the new NSF-funded Science and Technology Center (STC) on Real-Time Functional Imaging. The STC is a product of close collaboration with Dr. John Miao in the Department of Physics at UCLA and colleagues at UC Berkeley, University of Colorado, and CNSI. The center will be multi-campus with multiple […]

Spokoyny joined science writers to make give their best guesses as to who will claim the prize on October 5th. The assistant professor of inorganic chemistry joined science writer Carmen Drahl, chief editor of Nature Chemistry Stu Cantrill, C&EN assistant managing editor Lauren Wolf and C&EN associate editor Matt Davenport for the C&EN sponsored webcast which […]