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! […]

Professor Jorge Torres was presented with the 2016 UCLA Alpha Chi Sigma (AXΣ) Glenn T Seaborg Award at the annual AXΣ Seaborg Banquet on May 21st. The Seaborg Banquet is a tradition for the Beta Gamma chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma. The Alpha Chi Sigma Glenn T. Seaborg Award (not to be confused with the Glenn T. […]

Professor Sharon Glotzer (University of Michigan) gave the 2nd annual Carolyn & Charles Knobler Lecture on May 23rd. Glotzer is the Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, and Macromolecular Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She is member […]

Graduate student Rafal Dziedzic (Alexander Spokoyny lab) has been selected for a National Defense Science & Engineering (NDSEG) graduate fellowship.  “I’m extremely excited to work with the Department of Defense (DoD) and Air Force Research Laboratory (Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico) on developing new technology for space vehicles,” said the 2nd year Ph.D. student. […]