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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]