The UCLA Student Members of the American Chemical Society has been awarded a Green Chemistry Student Chapter Award for activities in the 2014-15 academic year.  SMACS was one of only […]

We are sad to report that Professor emeritus Howard Reiss passed away on December 21, 2015 at the age of 93. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1977, […]

View lectures by 2015 Seaborg Medalist Stefan Hell and symposium speakers Carlos Bustamante, Scott Fraser and Shimon Weiss. To view the videos of the lectures visit the video recordings website. […]

Recent graduates Nooriel Banayan (’15) and Kyle Travaglini (’15) received the Dean’s Prize Medal of Excellence at the 2015 UCLA Science Poster Day. The students were presented their awards by […]

Graduate students competed in the Research Pitch Competition by giving five minute “pitches” about their research to a panel of faculty judges.  The event was hosted by the Chemistry and […]

On November 13, 2015, the Graduate Student Affairs Office held its second annual Outreach and Diversity Day, co-sponsored by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The event was created as a […]

Professor Richard Kaner was awarded the Materials Research Society (MRS) Medal at the 2015 MRS Fall meeting in Boston. Prof. Kaner delivered his award talk “Synthesis and Applications of Conducting […]

The UCLA groups of Houk and Tang have combined with the Codexis company, a biotech firm, to develop methods to understand the origins of enzyme selectivity. How do these enzymes […]