The viscosity of an ordinary solvent (DMF), when trapped in a nanocage of a porous solid, is about 4 orders of magnitude greater than that of the bulk liquid.  The research by dean of the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences and professor of chemistry and biochemistry Miguel Garcia-Garibay and his group offers new insights into how matter […]

The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry welcomes Roy Wollman, who has joined the department’s Biochemistry Division as an associate professor.  Roy was recruited through the QCBio faculty hiring initiative and holds a joint faculty position in our Department and in the Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology. His office and laboratory are located in the […]

Professor Craig Merlic’s work as the nation’s foremost academic laboratory safety expert was recently highlighted in UCLA Newsroom’s in depth article. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): UCLA chemistry professor makes strides in improving laboratory safety nationally The UC center Craig Merlic leads offers many safety recommendations and resources Craig Merlic, left, associate professor of […]

UCLA chemists & alumnus collaboration leads to discovery of how to get a solid material to act like a liquid without actually turning it into liquid. The research could potentially open possiblities for next-generation battery materials. Their research was published in the Journal of the American Chemistry Society earlier this summer.  University of Central Florida professor Fernando […]

Many exciting things are happening in the UCLA Molecular Instrumentation Center (MIC)!   In addition to sharing our news, we’d like to praise the current nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) graduate student teaching assistants (TAs) (pictured below) Nanette Jarenwattananon (Bouchard lab), Nicholas Knutson (Rubin lab) and Jeff McCormick (Bouchard lab), for training a large number of new […]

Washington Monthly ranked UCLA 8th among national universities & SJTU’s Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked UCLA 2nd among US public institutions & 12th overall.   In May, London’s Times Higher Education’s World Reputation Rankings 2016, which assess the international prestige of institutions of higher learning, placed UCLA No. 2 among all U.S. public universities. […]

The department hosted a reception for undergraduate scholars who have conducted research in faculty labs over the summer.  On August 19, 2016, the scholars gathered with their mentors, faculty and students at the reception in the Young Hall Student Center. The reception was to congratulate the students on their admission to these highly competitive programs, […]

The student researchers who participated in the SPUR ten week programs presented their research at the poster session. The Summer Programs for Undergraduate and Graduate Research Program (SPUR/GR) poster session took place at Hersey Hall on Wednesday, August 24, 2016. Several students conducted research in UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry laboratories for ten weeks this summer. […]