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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

Alexandrova Lab has published a VIP paper in Angewandte Chemie where they report on their discovery of a photo-driven molecular Wankel motor, B13+. This cluster has the dual-ring structure. The […]

Ken Houk’s new work on the dynamics of Diels-Alder reactions has appeared in his inaugural PNAS article after Ken’s election to the National Academy of Sciences. The work is featured […]

Sabeeha Merchant has been awarded the 2012 Darbaker Prize in Phycology for meritorious work in the study of microscopic algae by the Botanical Society of America. Sabeeha has been instrumental […]