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 […]

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. Mitsui’s announcement of the award stated that “Dr. Neil Garg has made seminal contribution to organic synthesis through the development of new efficient synthetic reactions […]

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 their approach to commercializing academic research. Kaner has helped start several businesses including Nanotech Energy, which uses graphene to make rapid charge storage devices known as […]

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 Biochemistry, has been chosen to receive the highly prestigious ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator award for his proposed research focused on the development of new metal-free borylation […]

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 Physical Sciences Joseph Rudnick said of Clarke “She brings commitment, an unwavering set of principles and a deep sense of humanity to this most crucial […]