Video and select photos from the 2016 Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Commencement Ceremony are now available for viewing. At the ceremony on Saturday, June 11, 2016, the UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry 2016 Alumni award was presented to commencement speaker physician Dr. Richard Buller (UCLA Chemistry ’71), Vice President of Oncology Clinical Development, Pfizer. Buller […]

The American Chemical Society (ACS) paid tribute to the accomplishments of Professor William Gelbart in a special issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry. The July 7, 2016 issue, published in his honor, is titled The William M. Gelbart Festschrift  with cover art created by Gelbart’s daughter, artist Eva Gelbart. This volume celebrated Gelbart’s 70th […]

Former biochemistry graduate student Piriya “Pete” Wongkongkathep received a Best Student Paper award from the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry (IJMS). Wongkongkathep (Ph.D. Biochemistry ’15 – Joseph Loo Group) received “Best Applied Paper” honor for the paper titled “Enhancing Protein Disulfide Bong Cleavage by UV Excitation and Electron Capture Dissociation for Top-Down Mass Spectrometry” published […]

Graduate student Marco Messina (advised by Maynard & Spokoyny) & postdoc Jon Axtell (Spokoyny group) led the team whose research was featured. The paper titled “Visible-Light-Induced Olefin Activation Using 3D Aromatic Boron-Rich Cluster Photooxidants” was published in the May 17, 2016, issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). It was highlighted in […]

Graduate student Emma Baker (Garg group) is one of eight women selected to receive the ACS Women Chemists Committee’s inaugural Merck Research Award. The American Chemistry Society (ACS) Women Chemists Committee’s Merck Research award, sponsored by Merck & Co., recognizes exceptional third- and fourth-year female graduate students.  As part of this award, Baker will attend […]

Weiss has been awarded a research grant by the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative to support innovative interdisciplinary projects related to art and science, engineering and medicine frontier collaborations. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): Paul Weiss awarded National Academies Keck Futures Initiative research grant UCLA professor Paul Weiss has been awarded a research grant […]

Amylynn Chen (’16) (Kaner group) received the Chancellor’s Service Award for her service work & the Dean’s Prize for her undergraduate research work. Chen recently graduated from UCLA with magna cum laude honor. For the past year, she has been conducting independent research in Prof. Richard Kaner’s group which she will continue while she submits […]

Professor Sabeeha Merchant has been elected a member of the Leopoldina for her scientific achievements and personal standing.  A distinguished professor of biochemistry in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Professor Merchant is internationally renowned for developing the concepts of metal sparing and recycling in biology through her analysis of nutritional copper and iron signaling in […]