Professor Michael Jung has been selected to receive the 2015 SCALACS Tolman Medal.             The medal is awarded each year by the Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society (SCALACS) in recognition of the medalist’s outstanding contributions to chemistry. Prof. Jung will be presented with the medal at an […]

Roy Tasker, Professor of Chemistry Education at Purdue University, gave the Winter Quarter Instructional Division seminar on February 9, 2016 in Young Hall. In his seminar titled “Research into Practice: Evidence-Informed, Best Practice Visualization for a Deeper Understanding of Chemistry”, Prof. Tasker spoke about his collaborative VisChem project in which he produced a suite of […]

Professor Eisenberg discusses his research on amyloid diseases in a recent article about traumatic brain injury & sports concussions. From UCLA Magazine (by Sandy Siegel ’72) David Eisenberg: Head and Heart Athletes in contact sports, such as football and boxing, where brain injuries are common, are particularly susceptible to such neurodegenerative disorders akin to Alzheimer’s […]

The UCLA Core Technology Gateway website offers scientists an on-line directory of all the cores on campus providing advanced research technology.   The increasingly multi-disciplinary nature of research often leads to the need for core facilities that are not well known to individual researchers. The cores website provides a portal to aid UCLA researchers in […]

Professor Anastasia Alexandrova has been awarded a coveted 2016-17 Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant that will fund her research in France starting this April. Her host institution in France will be the ENS: the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Institute of Chemistry. “The collaborative project will focus on computational catalysis, done in a close synergy with […]

The Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate Student Association acts as a voice for our graduate student population by representing and promoting their interests as well as bringing them together for social and service activities. The group aims to better the department, the university, and the community through leadership and service. They bring graduate students together for […]

Professor Paul Weiss has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows. Prof. Weiss was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for developing pioneering nanoscale tools and methods for control and measurement of biological, chemical, and physical interfaces with submolecular precision. […]

Professors David Eisenberg, Ken Houk, Ric Kaner, and Jeff Zink have been selected for the prestigious Thomson Reuters list of Highly Cited Researchers. The 2015 Highly Cited Researchers represents some of world’s most influential scientific minds. About three thousand researchers earned this distinction by writing the greatest number of reports officially designated by Essential Science […]