Dr. Annette Salmeen has been selected for the 2014 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award.  She will accept the award and present the commencement address at the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Graduation Ceremony on June 14, 2014. Annette Salmeen graduated from UCLA with honors in chemistry in 1997. The epitome of a student-athlete, she won […]

Assistant Professor Jorge Torres was interviewed by NBC News affiliate in Bakersfield, where he gave a talk about ongoing research and the importance of private funding for research at the American Cancer Society Relay For Life Survivor Kickoff. The American Cancer Society Relay For Life is an family friendly, community walk celebrating cancer survivors, their […]

Assistant Professors Louis Bouchard and Margot Quinlan have been selected to receive the 2014-2015 UCLA Faculty Career Development Award. Faculty Career Development Awards are given annually to assistant professors, providing research support at a critical time in the pre-tenure stage. Awards are made in the form of summer ninths or lump-sum research grants of $5,000 […]

On April 23, 2014, the Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) hosted a table at the annual Earth Day Fair organized by E3. E3, the largest environmental organization at UCLA, is a student group whose efforts are rotted in the three E’s of sustainability: Ecology, economy, and equity. SMACS students joined E3’s annual […]

A team of researchers led by Professors Ken Houk, Yi Tang, and Todd Yeates have published their findings in the June 2014 print edition of journal Nature Chemical Biology. UCLA Newsroom (by Kim DeRose): In pharmaceutical production, identifying enzyme catalysts that help improve the speed and efficiency of the process can be a major boon. Figuring […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate student, Jeffrey Vinokur (The Dancing Scientist), recently appeared on the Queen Latifah Show and Home & Family to perform experiments and share his passion for science. Vinokur’s appearance on the Queen Latifah Show (a national talk show with 1.2 million viewers) featured dancing and performing various experiments, including the use of sucrose to […]

UCLA Alumnus and former faculty member, Professor Fred Wudl, is the recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2014 Spiers Memorial Award. News.ucsb.edu (Julie Cohen): Professor Wudl received the 2014 Spiers Memorial Award for his many innovative developments in the field of organic electroactive materials and plastic electronics. “I am very grateful to the RSC for this […]

DTRA’s JSTO in the News highlighted Professor Ken Houk and colleagues’ work on the publication, “Acceleration of an Aromatic Claisen Rearrangement via a Designed Spiroligozyme Catalyst that Mimics the Ketosteroid Isomerase Catalytic Dyad.” Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Chemical and Biological Technologies Department Courtesy Story FORT BELVOIR, Va. – Knowledge of quantum mechanics and the practical […]