Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been elected to be the Chair of the Theory subdivision of the PHYS Division of the American Chemical Society.  The main responsibility of the theory subdivision Chair consists of bringing and soliciting suggestions for new theory symposia at the American Chemical Society (ACS) meetings, thus directing the general trends in the […]

The Materials Research Society (MRS) has named Professor Ric Kaner as the 2015 MRS Medalist. Professor Kaner is being honored for his “discovery of efficient methods to synthesize water dispersible conducting polymer nanofibers and their applications in sensors, actuators, molecular memory devices, catalysis, and the novel process of flash welding”. The MRS Medal is awarded […]

The department hosted a reception for 35 visiting undergraduate scholars from several summer research programs who have conducted research in faculty labs.  On August 13, 2015, the visiting scholars gathered with their mentors (faculty and lab members) at the reception in the future Young Hall Student Center. Prior to the reception, several of the scholars […]

Video and select photos from the 2015 Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Commencement Ceremony are now available for viewing online. At the ceremony on June 13, 2015, the UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry 2015 Alumni award was presented to commencement speaker Dr. Myung-ki Hong (UCLA Chemistry ’59), Founder and President of Dura Coat Products, Inc.  Dr. […]

The three recipients of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry – Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell, and William Moerner – were each invited to UCLA by Professor Shimon Weiss.   The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 was awarded jointly to the scientists “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”. Select photos from the first two lectures […]

UCLA research team has developed a dramatically advanced tool for analyzing how chemicals called nanocatalysts convert chemical reactions into electricity. The research team, led by Professor Xianfeng Duan, recently reported on their work in an article in the journal Nature Communications titled “An on-chip electrical transport spectroscopy approach for in situ monitoring electrochemical interfaces “. […]

Professor Todd Yeates has been awarded the prestigious 2016 ASBMB DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences. The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) award is given in the field of computational biology for “the most accessible and innovative development or application of computer technology to enhance research in the life sciences at the molecular […]