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 Biochemistry Graduate Student Association (CBGSA). 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes were awarded for $500, $300, and $200 respectively in the form of a travel grant […]

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 recruiting mechanism to invite prospective students from diversity-sponsored programs to visit the UCLA campus and learn more about graduate life in our department. Students from […]

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 Polymer Nanofibers” at the meeting on December 1, 2015. He was presented the MRS Medal at the MRS Awards Ceremony the next day. Prof.  Kaner […]

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 achieve their remarkable selectivity? Where other catalysts fail, these green biocatalysts can often deliver pharmaceuticals in high yield and purity. The research was published this […]

Photos from the Fall 2015 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Distinguished Lecture by Professor Yi Lu are now available for viewing. Professor Yi Lu, Jay and Ann Schenck Professor, Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presented his lecture, “Design and Selection of Metalloenzymes and their Applications as […]

Dr. Laurence Lavelle’s Chemistry Community, an online chemistry database and peer-to-peer learning tool, exceeded 1 million page views last week.                                                                Dr. Lavelle created the site […]

Photos from the 2015 Seaborg Symposium & Medal Award Dinner honoring Prof. Stefan W. Hell are now available for viewing. The full photo gallery is available here. On Monday, Oct. 19th, Nobel Laureate Professor Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, was honored by the Department of […]

Professor and Vice Chair for Education Neil Garg has been selected as the 2015 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching California Professor of the Year.  On November 19th, Prof. Garg was honored at the U.S. Professors of the Year awards banquet and congressional reception in Washington, D.C. The U.S. Professors of the Year program […]