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 […]

In the article, UCLA biochemistry instructor Heather Tienson was interviewed about her use of Wikipedia in the classroom.   In her undergraduate biochemistry classes Tienson’s students expand on Wikipedia articles to hone their research and writing skills. Tienson was also recently featured in a UCLA Newsroom article about this innovative teaching technique.  Excerpted from the […]

We welcome MIC’s new NMR scientist Ta-Chung “TC” Ong to UCLA.                                 “We are so pleased to recruit Dr. TC Ong,” Department Chair Prof. Catherine F. Clarke said. “I think our students will benefit from his considerable experience and expertise […]

The research resulting from a collaboration with Scripps Research Institute was recently published in the journal Science. The Houk group with Jin Quan-Yu at the Scripps Research Institute published a paper in Science that demonstrates the accomplishment of a goal that Yu has pursued for 14 years! The enantioselective functionalization of an unactivated CH bond, two […]

In the video titled “The quest to make any molecule, Total synthesis with Hosea Nelson”, Nelson talks about his work to help chemists build molecules.  In the interview with Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) associate editor Dr. Matt Davenport, Nelson discusses his “quest to help chemists build whatever molecule they want”. Nelson joined the chemistry […]