The 4th year chemistry undergraduate received the award for his work providing advice to incoming students through Facebook groups.   The Chancellor’s Service award is given annually to honor graduating students who made significant contributions to UCLA. As a student researcher in Prof. Richard Kaner’s group, Huynh studies graphene and conducting polymers. His research explores […]

Professor Carla Koehler was recently interviewed by science journalist Robyn Williams about her mitochondria research on the popular The Science Show. The Australian Broadcasting Corp’s Science Show is considered by many people to be the world’s best science broadcast program. Koehler was interviewed by Williams for the one-hour radio show when he recently visited the […]

Please help us to support the Dafni Amirsakis Memorial Fellowship Award, which provides fellowship support to graduate students in the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.  We are sad to report that UCLA alumna and staff member Dafni Amirsakis – chemist, musician, and exercise enthusiast – passed away on May 24, 2016. Beloved by her […]

The Houk group hosted the CCHF Virtual Symposium 04 sponsored by the Center for Selective C-H Functionalization (CHF) on June 7, 2016. The CCHF is an NSF-funded Center for Chemical Innovation (CCI) to which the Prof. Ken Houk’s group belongs.  Projected to students and postdocs via U-tube, the symposium featured the following talks: “Engineering Selectivity in Biocatalytic […]

Professor and Chair Miguel García-Garibay has been selected as dean of the UCLA College of Letters and Science, Division of Physical Sciences. The announcement was made today by Scott Waugh, UCLA executive vice chancellor and provost. This appointment will be effective July 1, 2016. A member of UCLA’s faculty for more than two decades, Professor […]

On May 25, JoAnne Stubbe (Novartis Professor of Chemistry & Biology, MIT) presented the Spring 2016 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture. Prof. Stubbe‘s lecture, titled “Radicals: Your Life is in their Hands”, was held at the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) auditorium. A reception followed her lecture.  Stubbe earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in […]

The new form of teaching used by Biochemistry lecturer Heather Tienson and Professor Alexander Spokoyny is highlighted in recent issue of Daily Bruin. Tienson (B.S. ’03, Ph.D. ’09 Biochemistry) (left) uses the teaching tool in her advanced honors seminar class and Spokoyny (B.S. ’06 Chemistry)  (right) uses it in his Chemistry 171: “Intermediate Inorganic Chemistry” class. […]

Professor John Roberts was honored at the May 19th event for his many contributions to chemistry, and the establishment of the new Roberts Chair was announced. Prof. Roberts, 97, attended the event at CNSI with family, close friends and former students & colleagues. “John D. Roberts, “Jack” to the chemical community, is a triple Bruin! […]