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. […]

UCLA alumna Professor Danielle Laraque-Arena (BS Chemistry ’76, MD ’81) has been appointed the first woman president of the SUNY Upstate Medical University. Currently the chair of the pediatrics at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City and a pediatrics professor at Yeshiva University, Prof. Laraque-Arena will begin her role as president of the State […]

Professors David Eisenberg, Ken Houk, Ric Kaner, and Jeff Zink have been selected for the prestigious Thomson Reuters 2015 list of Highly Cited Researchers. Highly Cited Researchers 2015 identifies the world’s most influential contemporary researchers across 21 scientific fields. Over three thousand researchers earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated […]

Experiments by UCLA Professor Thomas Mason and former UCLA postdoctoral researcher Kun Zhao, PhD, have revealed a new mechanism for glass formation. Prof. Mason and Dr. Kun Zhao, a former postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Mason’s group who is now an assistant professor at Tianjin University in China, have created the first experimental realization of a colloidal glass […]

The UCLA Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science (OCDS) has been awarded the 2015 Western Region ACS Stanley Israel Award. Alumni Dr. Steven A. Lopez (Ph.D. Chemistry ’15, Houk Group) and Dr. Crystal E. Valdez (Ph.D. Chemistry ’15, Alexandrova Group) will accept the award on behalf of OCDS at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Western […]