UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry alumnus, Professor Jim Wilking (PhD Chemistry ’08 Mason Group), has received NSF’s prestigious Young Investigator CAREER award. The National Science Foundation (NSF) award provides support for early career development of teacher-scholars. Notable because it goes to a single person instead of a team, it honors outstanding scientists who haven’t yet received […]

UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry faculty are part of a research team that has been selected for a Cal-BRAIN seed grant.  Their proposal was titled “Nanoscale Neurostransmitter Sensors” and the team’s project goals are to develop “artificial receptors” that recognize neurotransmitters and to employ these in a nanoscale electronic approach for brain neurotransmitter sensing.  The team […]

Colin Yu-Hong Lam and Maher El-Kady were recognized at the 2015 Postdoctoral Scholars Award Ceremony on April 22nd at the CNSI auditorium. Dr. Lam (Houk group) was one of six postdoctoral scholars who received the Chancellor’s $5000 Award for Postdoctoral Research and Dr. El-Kady (Kaner group) was one of five who received $1000 Honorable Mention […]

Heather Maynard, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Associate Director of CNSI, has been selected for the US Defense Science Study Group (DSSG). Prof. Maynard is one of 15 U.S. academic researchers chosen for the program’s 2016-2017 class. The two-year program introduces outstanding scientists and engineers to the challenges facing national security and encourages them […]

Professor Willard Libby, the first UCLA faculty to be recognized with a Nobel Prize, was recently featured in a historical piece in the New York Times. In 1959 Prof. Libby joined the UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and in 1960 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his method to use carbon 14 […]

Photos from the 2015 Christopher S. Foote Symposium events are now available for viewing. The March 12th symposium was organized by former colleagues and members of Prof. Chris Foote’s research group to mark the 50th anniversary of the Foote/Wexler discovery. This anniversary and celebration marks the groundbreaking discovery of the role of singlet oxygen as […]

Garg and Houk research team findings featured in C&EN and JACS Spotlights. The research team of Dr. Travis McMahon, Jose Medina (Garg Group), Dr. Yun-Fang Yang (Houk Group), Bryan Simmons (Garg Group) and Prof. Ken Houk, reported on the generation of the first 3,4-piperidyne and its use as a building block for the synthesis of […]

Graduate student Crystal Valdez, a member of the Alexandrova group, met with lawmakers to explain the value graduate research brings to California. Excerpt from UCLA Newsroom: On April 28, 22 UC graduate students, including four from UCLA who are doing cutting-edge work in fields ranging from engineering to nutrition, [joined] UC President Janet Napolitano at the […]