Ellen Sletten receives Helmholtz High Impact Award 2024

2 weeks ago

  • Awards, Grants, & Recognition
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Professor Ellen Sletten and longtime collaborator Professor Oliver Bruns (NCT/UCC Dresden) have received the prestigious Helmholtz High Impact Award 2024. Sletten and Bruns are being recognized for developing an innovative […]

Ellen Sletten receives Helmholtz High Impact Award 2024
September 26

Benjamin Schwartz gives Hush Lecture 2024 at the University of Sydney

2 weeks ago

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Professor Benjamin Schwartz recently delivered the 2024 Hush Lecture, titled “The Role of the Solvent in Chemical Identity, Chemical Reactivity, and Quantum Decoherence,” at the University of Sydney, Australia, on […]

Benjamin Schwartz gives Hush Lecture 2024 at the University of Sydney
September 26

Giving Back: Researchers help the “Chem Kids” tackle organic chemistry in UCLA children’s camp

2 weeks ago

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In partnership with UCLA’s Recreation Summer Camps, Professor Neil Garg and members of his research team held their second annual, week-long summer program called “Chem Kids”. The camp provides a forum for […]

Giving Back: Researchers help the “Chem Kids” tackle organic chemistry in UCLA children’s camp
September 25

Welcoming New Faculty

2 weeks ago

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The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is excited to announce that five talented researchers and educators will be joining the department in the coming months. Please join us in […]

Welcoming New Faculty
September 24

Iron was life’s ‘primeval’ metal, say scientists

3 weeks ago

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Professor Joan Valentine is part of a team of researchers from UCLA, the University of Michigan, and the California Institute of Technology, who argue that iron was life’s earliest, and […]

Iron was life’s ‘primeval’ metal, say scientists
September 20

UCLA-led research doubles DOE fuel cell lifetime target with new catalyst material

1 month ago

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Professor Xiangfeng Duan and co-first author, alumna Dr. Bosi Peng (Ph.D. ’22), are part of a UCLA-led team that has developed an ultrafine platinum nanocatalyst embedded with cobalt oxide clusters, […]

UCLA-led research doubles DOE fuel cell lifetime target with new catalyst material
September 9

Congratulations to this year’s Dissertation Year Fellowship recipients

1 month ago

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  • Student

This year, 11 chemistry and biochemistry graduate student researchers received the 2024-2025 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). Additionally, two students from the MBIDP and MIMG programs, working in […]

Congratulations to this year’s Dissertation Year Fellowship recipients
September 5

Abigail Doyle named to Cell Press 50 Scientists that Inspire list

1 month ago

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Professor Abigail Doyle, the Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry, has been named to the Cell Press 50 Scientists that Inspire list for her contributions in organic chemistry and computational […]

Abigail Doyle named to Cell Press 50 Scientists that Inspire list
September 3