Professor Neil Garg has been selected for the 2015 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award for Organic Synthesis. The award “is presented annually to individuals who have exhibited exceptional creativity and dedication in the field of Organic Synthesis.”  Prof. Garg will give a plenary lecture at the 17th Tetrahedron Symposium in Spain in the summer of 2016, […]

One of our newest faculty members was interviewed about his career path in the Oct 1st issue of the prestigious journal. Prof. Nelson earned a B.S. in Chemistry from University of California at Berkeley in 2004 and a  Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 2012.  After postdoctoral training at University of California at […]

Professor Ric Kaner and postdoc Maher El-Kady have published an easy to understand article about their research in IEEE Spectrum. In the article titled “How a Microscopic Supercapacitor Will Supercharge Mobile Electronics”, published in the October 2015 issue, the materials chemists explain how the next generation portable electronics could be shrunk using simple microscale supercapacitor […]

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 sessions about academics, department operations, and student life. Students heard from the graduate office, various faculty and staff, and then, Wednesday and Thursday were devoted […]

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. From UCLA Newroom: Biochemist Sriram Kosuri receives NSF award to crack the olfactory code Sriram “Sri” Kosuri, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry is […]

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 348 incoming first-year majors and 116 incoming transfer students to the Student Study Center (Young Hall 4222) for an informal reception where they met faculty, […]

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 core of α-synuclein from invisible crystals” was published in the September 9th online issue of the prestigious scientific journal. The research is receiving attention and […]

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 to improve the undergraduate experience in lab courses so that more students successfully complete their requirements while simultaneously finding the learning experience compelling and exciting. […]