On April 19, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry welcomed thousands of future Bruins and their families for UCLA’s Annual Bruin Day event.  UCLA Bruin Day is our exclusive, annual event for admitted freshmen and their guests, with faculty presentations, academic and financial aid resources, and campus and housing tours. The Chemistry & Biochemistry booth […]

Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Membership in the NAS is one of the highest honors given to a scientist in the United States. Stoddart is among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries recognized for […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduate student Steven Lopez (Houk Group) is the student recipient of the UCLA Academic Senate’s 2014 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award. Nominations for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award are collected annually from the entire campus. This year, Steven Lopez was selected, amongst many qualified nominees, by the UCLA Academic Senate […]

Prof. Anastassia Alexandrova and colleagues have created a unique transition metal hydride in which the hydrogens form a five-membered aromatic ring – something that had been theorized but until now never seen.  ChemistryWorld (by Simon Hadlington): Unlike ‘conventional’ π-aromaticity typified by benzene, here the delocalised electrons are shared across the pentagonal ring through planar σ […]

Professor Sabeeha Merchant and Professor Paul Weiss have been elected as Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They join other distinguished fellows this year including: Dan Shechtman (2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry), Al Pacino (Actor), and Robert Reich (Former Secretary of Labor). UCLA Newsroom (Rebecca Kendall): Eight UCLA faculty members are among […]

The UCLA Student Members of American Chemical Society (SMACS) Chemistry Bowl Team placed in the top three at the first annual Southern California American Chemical Society (SCALACS) Chemistry Bowl. The SCALACS Chemistry Bowl was held at Pasadena City College on Saturday, April 12, 2014. The event brought together Southern California American Chemical Society student chapters […]

UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumnus, Prof. Jiaxing Huang (Ph.D., 2004; Adviser: Ric Kaner), has been named a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow. mccormick.northwestern.edu: Jiaxing Huang, associate professor of materials science and engineering in Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow. Huang joins a number of scholars, academics, scientists, artists, […]

Professor Richard Kaner’s presentation at the 115th UCLA Faculty Research Lecture (held on February 5, 2014) is now available for viewing. The biannual Faculty Research Lecture at UCLA presents the work of the university’s most distinguished scholars. Its purpose is to recognize their superb achievements, and give the campus and the greater community an opportunity […]