UCLA is ranked #6 in chemistry and #10 in biology/biochemistry in the recently released 2016 US News and World Report Best Global Universities rankings. UCLA is ranked #8 in the world and the #2 public institution in the United States. The survey ranked 750 universities from 57 nations using 12 weighted indicators to measure each […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been selected for a 2016 WCC Rising Star award for excellence in the scientific enterprise. The award recognizes ten exceptional women scientists approaching mid-level careers across all sectors (academic, industrial, government and non-profit) who have demonstrated outstanding promise for contributions to their respective fields.   Prof. Alexandrova was recognized by the […]

Organic chemistry graduate students performed outreach events at the Warner Avenue Elementary School and UCLA’s Krieger daycare facility in October, 2015. Graduate students Robert Susick, Michael Yamano, Lucas Morrill, and Liana Hie visited the Warner classroom of energetic third graders on October 16. Their visit included teaching children about chemicals and taste, in addition to […]

Select photos from the 2015 Robert Scott Lecture, presented by Professor Zhen-Gang Wang, are now available for viewing. The 9th annual Robert L. Scott Lecture, which honors Professor Emeritus Bob Scott, who has been a member of the department since 1948, was presented on October 5 by Zhen-Gang Wang, Lawrence A. Hanson Professor of Chemical […]

1st year graduate student Erick Harr (Tolbert Group) has been awarded a prestigious UC-MEXUS fellowship that will fund him throughout his graduate career. The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) – Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) fellowships are awarded to students who show significant promise in the […]

The groundbreaking research, led by Professor Juli Feigon, was published online this week by the prestigious journal Science. The team’s research has produced images of telomerase in much higher resolution than ever before, giving them major new insights about the enzyme. Their findings could ultimately lead to new directions for treating cancer and preventing premature […]

The event celebrated the 2015 Postdoctoral Awardees and paid tribute to Paul & Lyda Boyer for their generous support of postdoctoral fellows.  Held on Oct. 9th at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) the awards ceremony was co-sponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Molecular Biology Institute (MBI). This year, a total of […]

Richard Heck (BS ’52 chemistry, PhD ’54 physical organic chemistry, Saul Winstein group, 2011 Seaborg medalist) died on October 9, 2015, in Manila.  Along with Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, Heck shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry for creating the “Heck reaction” (a palladium-catalyzed carbon cross-coupling reaction), which has been widely hailed for its […]