“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]