The month of March marked the first Eisenberg lecture, recognizing Professor David Eisenberg, a leader in the field of biochemistry.        By Helen Houldsworth (UCLA Molecular Biology Institute): The series was made possible by a generous gift from UCLA alumni and long time supporters Ralph and Shirley Shapiro. The Shapiro’s gift honors the […]

Over 200 people attended the March 15th UCLA Reception & Research Showcase at the American Chemistry Society (ACS) conference in San Diego.                                    Chair Prof. Miguel Garcia-Garibay welcomed the guests who represented alumni, friends, current faculty and students. He […]

Graduate students in the CNSI nanoscience outreach program directed by Prof. Sarah Tolbert help to bring nanotechnology to the mall. Nanoscience at the Mall, a UCLA project funded by the American Physical Society, was an idea that came to Sarah Tolbert, chemistry and biochemistry professor and faculty director of California NanoSystems Intitute (CNSI) outreach, and […]

Undergraduate student researcher Alejandra “Ali” Gonzalez (Spokoyny group) has been accepted into the prestigious UC LEADS program.  The University of California Leadership Excellence through Advanced DegreeS (UC LEADS) program is one of the most prestigious fellowships awarded by the University of California system. Each year this honor is awarded to up to nine UCLA upper-division […]

Michael Jung led the UCLA research team whose discoveries resulted in the development of a leading prostate cancer drug. Prof. Jung worked with Drs. Charles Sawyers and Howard Scher of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to develop the anti-androgen drug enzalutamide (Xtandi), which has been found effective in slowing or stopping the progression of […]

Artwork by Physical and Life Science undergraduate majors enhances the new Young Hall Student Center and Lounge. By Julie Heinrich (UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry Student Affairs Officer) Thanks to a suggestion by Dr. Maria Dzialo (Ph.D. ’15 biochemistry and molecular biology, Steven Clarke group), the undergraduate office invited undergraduate students to submit original science-inspired artwork […]

UCLA chemistry lecturer & historian Eric Scerri leads a plea from several distinguished chemists for one of the new elements to be named after Henry Moseley. Henry Moseley was the English physicist who established that atomic number provided an improved way in which to order the elements than the use of atomic weight. Dr. Scerri […]

Professor Neil Garg has been selected to receive the 2016 Thieme–IUPAC Prize.                           The Thieme–IUPAC Prize is presented every two years on the occasion of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry – International Conference on Organic Synthesis (IUPAC–ICOS).  The prize is […]