Physician Richard Buller, Vice President of Oncology Clinical Development at Pfizer, selected for the 2016 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award. Dr. Buller will accept the award and present his commencement address titled “Is It Really Serendipity?” at the UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry graduation ceremony on June 11, 2016 in the Court of Sciences. Biography: Dr. Rich Buller, […]

Professor Marcetta Darensbourg (Texas A&M University) was honored at the April 20, 2016 event. Prof. Darensbourg’s seminar, titled “Hydrogenase Inspired Bioorganiometallic Chemistry”, took place at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) auditorium. Inorganic chemistry professor Alexander Spokoyny made introductory remarks, thanked donors Raymond and Dorothy Wilson whose generous endowment made the event possible, and he spoke […]

Faculty, staff & student volunteers met admitted undergraduate students & their parents at the Saturday, April 16th event. The Freshman Bruin Day 2016 was for admitted undergraduate students for the class of 2020. The Chemistry & Biochemistry booth had student volunteers from Alpha Chi Sigma, Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS), and the Biochemistry […]

Postdoctoral scholar Liban Saleh (Spokoyny group) won the award for his short (~ five minutes) research presentation at the symposium.         The University of California Symposium for Chemical Sciences (UCSCS) symposium took place at the UCLA Conference Center at Lake Arrowhead during the 2016 Spring Break (March 21-23). Dr. Saleh’s research focuses […]

The research, which holds promise for the production of biofuels & new pharmaceuticals, was described in paper published in Nature Chemical Biology. The paper titled “A synthetic biochemistry module for production of bio-based chemicals from glucose” was published in the April 11, 2016 issue of the journal. Co-authors postdoctoral fellow Dr. Paul H Opgenorth (Ph.D. ’15, […]

OCDS and SMACS students engaged future scientists at the 2nd annual Warner Science Slam on April 18, 2016.   The Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) and the Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science (OCDS) volunteered at Warner Avenue Elementary school’s 2nd Annual Science Slam. Everyone who attended the event received a souvenir UCLA […]

Graduate student Xing Jiang (Garcia-Garibay group) (pictured) is the lead author of the paper featured in Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN). The paper titled “Crystal Fluidity Reflected by Fast Rotational Motion at the Core, Branches, and Peripheral Aromatic Groups of a Dendrimeric Molecular Rotor” was published in the March 14, 2016 issue of the Journal […]

Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Education Neil Garg is one of three UCLA faculty members to be awarded the 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship.              Prof. Garg, whose research involves new reactions catalyzed by non-precious metals, was the one of only two chemists among the group of 178 scholars, artists, and […]