Professor Neil Garg featured in video celebrating ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable’s 10th anniversary. The American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute’s (ACS GCI) Pharmaceutical Roundtable, a collaboration of pharmaceutical companies and the ACS GCI, celebrated their ten year anniversary in February 2015. The video below, featuring Prof. Garg, was created to look back at the roundtable’s […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry would like to welcome Ellen Sletten, who will join our department as an Assistant Professor. Prof. Sletten’s research will focus on the areas of Analytical Chemistry, Biophysics, Materials & Nanoscience, and Organic Chemistry.  She will take up residency in the department in January 2016. Prof. Sletten received her […]

An article by Alexandrova group, recently published in a leading international chemistry journal, designated as a “Very Important Paper (VIP)” by evaluators. The article, “Origin of Extraordinary Stability of Square-Planar Carbon Atoms in Surface Carbides of Cobalt and Nickel” was published in the Mar. 24, 2015 online issue of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a journal […]

Professor Paula Diaconescu has been elected as recipient of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. This prestigious award, presented by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany, is conferred in recognition of lifetime achievements in research. In addition, the award winners are invited to carry out research projects of their own choice in cooperation with specialist […]

UCLA alumni and their craft brewery were recently featured in KCET.org on-line magazine.   Progress Brewery in South El Monte was founded by Dr. Diego Benitez, a former postdoc in Professor Fraser Stoddart’s group and Kevin Ogilby, a former undergraduate in Professor Paula Diaconescu’s group. Excerpt from KCET.org (by Melissa Hidalgo) Somewhere in the working-class, […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry alumnus, Professor S.W. Tina Choe, has been named dean of Seaver College at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). Having received both her bacherlor’s degree (’88) and a doctorate (’94 – Jung Group) in Organic Chemistry at UCLA, Dean Choe has a close connection to the department. In 2006, she spent a sabbatical […]

Professor David Eisenberg profiled in March 2015 issue of ASBMB Today. At the upcoming ASBMB annual meeting in Boston, Prof. David Eisenberg will receive the 2015 Bert and Natalie Vallee Award in Biomedical Science for his work on amyloid fiber structure.  He will deliver his award lecture titled “The Amyloid State of Proteins,” on Monday, […]

UCLA’s “PhD Fashionista” official blogger for 2015 ASBMB annual meeting. Biochemistry Ph.D. candidate, Andrea Hadjikyriacou, will be an official blogger at the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) national meeting in Boston, March 28-April 1, 2015. Links to Andrea’s blogs can be found at her website – www.phdfashionista.com.  “I will be posting not […]