Prof. Saul Winstein’s Legacy In Organic Chemistry Featured
12 years ago
Chemical and Engineering News recently featured an article describing the recent Celebration of the 100th Birthday of Saul Winstein symposium organized by Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry, Prof. Ken Houk. […]

Neil Garg Wins American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable Research Grant
12 years ago
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The American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable, a partnership between the ACS Green Chemistry Institute and member corporations in the pharmaceutical field, has awarded Professor Neil Garg its […]

Yi Tang receives NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
12 years ago
Yi Tang is one of 10 researchers nationwide who were selected to receive an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. The award supports investigators taking “highly innovative approaches that have the potential […]

Louis Bouchard receives 2012 Beckman Young Investigator Award
12 years ago
Louis Bouchard is one of five young investigators to receive a 2012 Beckman Young Investigator Award. The award was presented to Louis during a ceremony at the Beckman headquarters in […]

Department and UCLA overall are ranked highly on Shanghai World Academic Ranking, QS World University Rankings, and London Times’ World University Rankings
12 years ago
Recently released 2012 Academic Rankings of World Universities by Shanghai Rating Consultancy puts UCLA overall at #12 and our department at #13. We moved two steps up from #15 in […]

Undergraduates Host UCLA InnoWorks for Local Middle School Students
12 years ago
UCLA undergraduate students proudly hosted the 2012 UCLA InnoWorks Academy program from July 30 - Aug 3, 2012 in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. This scientific workshop, entitled “Making […]

Collaborative work of Reisler & Gimzewski labs reveals how drebrin-A, a key neuronal actin binding protein, modifies single actin filaments
12 years ago
High resolution Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) shows cooperative binding of drebrin to single actin filaments and reveals the resulting change in their structure. The observed nanoscale structural changes modify the […]

Xiangfeng Duan wins the 2012 JMC Lectureship AND receives DuPont Young Professor Award
12 years ago
Xiangfeng Duan was awarded the 2012 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship for his contributions to the field of materials chemistry. This Lectureship is an annual award that honors a younger […]
