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. […]

Chemical & Engineering News includes Professor Alex Spokoyny in its 2nd annual Talented 12 feature, highlighting young investigators who are doing groundbreaking work in the field. The Talented Twelve list, created by the weekly magazine of the American Chemical Society, recognized Spokoyny as one of the “path-paving young researchers and entrepreneurs who are using chemistry […]

Professor Neil Garg has been awarded the EJ Corey award by the American Chemical Society (ACS) for his outstanding original contribution in organic synthesis. Since 2004, the society has honored young investigators with the award which is sponsored by the Pfizer Endowment Fund.  Garg will be honored at the awards ceremony during the ACS national […]

We recently caught up with alumna Darcy Wanger Grinolds (’08 chemistry), currently working at X (formerly Google[x]) as a Hardware Reliability Engineer. Grinolds received a MS/BS via the Departmental Scholar program in Physical Chemistry/Materials Science with an Organic Emphasis in 2008. While at UCLA she worked in Prof. Ben Schwartz’s group where she designed experiments […]

The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry welcomes Jose Rodriguez who has joined the department as an Assistant Professor in the Biochemistry Division. Jose joined the department in July 2016 and he holds the Howard Reiss Development Chair. His office and laboratory are currently located on the 5th floor of Boyer Hall. Jose came to the […]