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 […]

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 […]