The UCLA Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) were selected for the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Commendable Student Chapter Award. The Society Committee on Education (SOCED) selects ACS student chapters to receive special recognition on the basis of their programs and activities, as described in their chapter reports. Awards are classified as outstanding, […]

Professor Timothy Deming has been appointed as an Associate Editor for the ACS Journal, Biomacromolecules. Biomacromolecules focuses on interdisciplinary investigations exploring the interactions of macromolecules with biological systems and their environments as well as biological approaches to the design of polymeric materials. The journal covers sustainable chemistry, monomers and polymers based on natural and renewable […]

Professor Al Courey has been appointed as the first Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the UCLA Division of Physical Sciences. The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry is pleased to share the news that Prof. Al Courey has agreed to serve as the first Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in […]

For the second consecutive year, UCLA ranked No. 5 in Kiplinger Personal Finance’s list of “Best Values in Public Colleges.” The report takes into consideration admission and retention rates, student-faculty ratio and four-year graduation rate, as well as tuition, financial aid and student debt at graduation. Kiplinger noted that 83 percent of UCLA’s student financial […]

Professor Anne Andrews and colleagues have published that early exposure to antidepressants affects adult anxiety and serotonin transmission. About 15 percent of women in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders and depression during their pregnancies, and many are prescribed antidepressants. However little is known about how early exposure to these medications might affect their […]

Professors Sabeeha Merchant, Joseph Loo, and colleagues have found that some cells build intracellular compartments that allow the cell to store metals and maintain equilibrium. LLNL.Gov (By Anne M. Stark): [In the December 2014 printed edition of Nature Chemical Biology, researchers at UCLA and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have reported] that some cells build intracellular […]

Graduate student Jeffrey Vinokur and his act as the “Dancing Scientist” was recently profiled by ASBMB Today. ASBMB Today (By Maggie Kuo): The Dancing Scientist is decked out like a rock star in a bejeweled lab coat and Bono-like lab glasses. He is on the set of ABC’s TV show “The View,” standing by glass […]

Professor David Eisenberg has been awarded the first Switzer Prize for Biomedical Discovery. The Switzer prize is in honor of Irma and Norman Switzer, whose estate gave an unrestricted gift of $50 million to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA to advance research in medicine and health. The purpose of the prize is […]