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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]