Professor & Vice Chair, Neil Garg, has been awarded the 2015 Gold Shield Faculty Prize.  The prize is awarded each year to recognize exceptional mid-career full professors who have demonstrated extraordinary accomplishments in undergraduate teaching, service to the University, and research or creative activitity. From UCLA Newsroom (by Stuart Wolpert): Chemistry professor Neil Garg honored […]

Professor and Chair Miguel Garcia-Garibay has been selected to receive the 2015 Faculty-Staff Partnership Award. The award selection committee wrote the following to Prof. Garcia-Garibay: “As a Professor and Chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, we applaud you for your vision, advocacy of staff, promotion of staff, encouragement of staff independence, success […]

Professor & Vice Chair, Neil Garg, was one of the 18 speakers to participate in TEDxUCLA at the UCLA campus on Saturday, May 30th.  The TEDxUCLA conference, themed “Beyond the Box”, was attended by 600 people and was streamed live to a second audience of 400. The talks will be available on youtube.com in a […]

PhysOrg reported on the development by Professor James Gimzewski and his research team of an atomic-scale hardware to implement natural computing. Their findings were reported in the paper “Atomic Switch Networks – Nanoarchitectonic Design of a Complex System for Natural Computing” published in Nanotechnology this April.   The UCLA members of the team (photos below) […]

Nanette Jarenwattananon (Bouchard group) has been named recipient of a 2015 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Graduate Student Research Award. The UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry graduate student is one of four students selected (among many highly qualified nominees) nationwide for the award. Nanette will receive an all-expense paid trip to the EAS, she will be presented […]

OCDS and SMACS students engage budding scientists at the first ever Warner Science Slam.   The Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) and the Organization for Cultural Diversity in Science (OCDS) volunteered at Warner Avenue Elementary school’s first-ever Science Slam on April 18, 2015. The Science Slam, organized by teachers and parents of […]

Chemistry and Biochemistry graduate students participate in UCLA’s first ever campus-wide Grad Slam competition.                  Paul Weiss group members John Abendroth and Nako Nakatsuka particpated in the competition along with 90 other UCLA students representing 50 different academic programs. The competition involved graduate students giving three-minute talks describing […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate student Matthew Fontana (Schwartz Group) has been named a UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellow. The UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) is an innovative program that creates unique learning opportunities for both graduate teaching fellows and undergraduate students on campus. Through the program, some of UCLA’s very best […]