Professors David Eisenberg, Ken Houk, Ric Kaner, and Jeff Zink have been selected in Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Researchers 2014. Highly Cited Researchers 2014 represents some of world’s leading scientific minds. Over three thousand researchers earned the distinction by writing the greatest numbers of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators℠ as Highly Cited Papers—ranking […]

The Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate Student Association (CBGSA) recently visited The Willows Community School, where they engaged 8th-grade students by demonstrating exciting chemistry experiments. The event was was organized by CBGSA. The event took place in May 2014 at The Willows Community School in Culver City, CA. During the event, graduate students from the UCLA […]

Professor Neil Garg has been selected by NerdScholar in their list of “40 (professors) under 40 (years of age)” who inspire their students “to be the world leaders and humanitarians of tomorrow.” NerdScholar: Garg has been an organic chemistry professor at the university for the past seven years, during which time he has gained a […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate students Maria Dzialo (S. Clarke Group) and Hung Pham (Houk Group) have been named as UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows. The UCLA Collegium of University Teaching Fellows (CUTF) is an innovative program that creates unique learning opportunities for both graduate teaching fellows and undergraduate students on campus. Through the […]

Has organic chemistry become UCLA’s most beloved class? Yes, say Neil Garg’s students, who are back this year with nearly 100 new chemistry-related music videos. UCLA Newsroom (By Stuart Wolpert): Over dinner at Neil Garg’s home, several of his second-year honors students recalled the advice they heard before even starting UCLA: “Make sure you take […]

Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. UCLA Newsroom (By Stuart Wolpert): Anastassia Alexandrova, an assistant professor in UCLA’s department of chemistry and biochemistry and a member of UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute, has received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry would like to welcome Alexander M. Spokoyny, who will be joining our department as an Assistant Professor in the Inorganic Chemistry division. Dr. Alexander Spokoyny was born and spent his childhood and teenage years in Moscow, Russia. After his family immigrated to United States in 2001, Spokoyny attended […]

Paul Weiss and colleagues have significantly improved organic electronic devices by employing mixed SAMs of the symmetric cage molecules carboranethiols to tune work function of gold and silver contacts with little alteration in surface energy. Full Story: A team of researchers led by Paul S. Weiss, Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences, a UCLA distinguished […]