The department welcomed its incoming class of graduate students with a full agenda of activities during the week of September 21.    The first two days were filled with information […]

Professor Sri Kosuri is the PI of one of three projects to receive a total of $15M from the NSF to research intricacies of olfaction and neural coding of odors. […]

On the first day of instruction, the department started what will surely become a long-standing tradition: a chemistry and biochemistry department reception for incoming students.   The undergraduate office invited […]

In Nature researchers led by UCLA Professor David Eisenberg and Tamir Gonen (HHMI Janelia) offer closest look yet at core of α-synuclein aggregates.   The paper titled “Structure of the toxic […]

Faculty, lab instructors, consultants, staff, and graduate students came together this week for the first Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry lab summit. The goal of the September 14th meeting was […]

UCLA alumna Professor Danielle Laraque-Arena (BS Chemistry ’76, MD ’81) has been appointed the first woman president of the SUNY Upstate Medical University. Currently the chair of the pediatrics at […]

Professors David Eisenberg, Ken Houk, Ric Kaner, and Jeff Zink have been selected for the prestigious Thomson Reuters 2015 list of Highly Cited Researchers. Highly Cited Researchers 2015 identifies the […]

Experiments by UCLA Professor Thomas Mason and former UCLA postdoctoral researcher Kun Zhao, PhD, have revealed a new mechanism for glass formation. Prof. Mason and Dr. Kun Zhao, a former postdoctoral […]