Professor Richard Kaner’s group creates new energy storage medium by combining two nanomaterials. Excerpt from UCLA Newsroom (by Shaun Mason) : The dramatic rise of smartphones, tablets, laptops and other […]

Professor Todd Yeates and former graduate student Neil King are co-inventors on newly issued patent. The patent is titled “General Method for Designing Self-Assembling Protein Nanomaterials”, US Patent # 8969521. […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]