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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Professor Neil Garg received the award which recognizes outstanding achievements in catalysis sciences. Garg received the award for his breakthroughs in non-precious metal catalysis and harnessing catalytic transformations in total synthesis. […]

Professor Richard Kaner participated in UCLA’s Office of Intellectual Property’s recent 3rd Annual “Pathways to Commercialization” event. The event gave four UCLA faculty entrepreneurs the opportunity to shed light on […]

Professor Alexander Spokoyny has been awarded an American Chemistry Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund (PRF) Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grant. Spokoyny, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and […]

Professor Catherine F Clarke has been named the next chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry effective July 1, 2016. In his announcement of the appointment dean of […]