Professors Ken Houk, Yi Tang, and colleagues have won HPCwire’s 2014 Reader’s Choice Award for the “Best Use of HPC (High-performance computing) Application in Life Sciences”. HPCwire.com: Every year, HPCwire conducts […]

New nanoscale protein container developed by Professor Todd Yeates and colleagues could lead to synthetic vaccines and offer a way to deliver medicine inside of human cells. UCLA Newsroom (By […]

The new process developed by Professor James Liao and colleagues could reduce carbon dioxide emissions and lower production costs. UCLA Newsroom (By Matthew Chin): Researchers at UCLA have developed a […]

On November 7, 2014, the Graduate Student Affairs Office held its first annual Outreach and Diversity Day, co-sponsored by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The event was created as a […]

Professor Todd Yeates and colleagues have designed a hollow cube out of naturally occurring proteins, something that was previously only possible with DNA. The custom-built protein structures might be used […]

Professor Paul Weiss was featured on the cover story of Japan’s Advanced Institute for Materials Research Magazine and discussed the potential in fusing mathematics and materials science. In the article, […]

UCLA is the number 5 university in the subject of chemistry and number 8 overall in the inaugural U.S. News and World Report Rankings – Best Global Universities. The inaugural […]

Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate students represented UCLA at STEAM Nation 2014, one of the largest events in LA County celebrating Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math education (STEAM). STEAM Nation […]