Congratulations to our current graduate and undergraduate students and alumni who have received prestigious 2025 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) and Honorable Mentions. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at […]

Professor Ka Yee Lee (Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago) gave the 9th annual Carolyn and Charles Knobler Lecture on April 7, 2025. The well-attended lecture, entitled “Lipid-Protein Interactions at Membrane Surfaces: From Alpha-Synuclein to Immunological Response”, was followed by a question-and-answer period and then by a reception. Select photos from the event are below […]

From UCLA Newsroom (by Holly Ober): David Eisenberg, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA, has been selected by SPARK NS for the 2025 cohort of research support for development of new therapies to treat Parkinson’s disease. SPARK NS is an independent nonprofit dedicated to advancing discoveries in neuroscience. Nearly a million Americans suffer […]

For the second time this year an article by the UC Center for Laboratory Safety was honored as an Editor’s Choice article by the American Chemical Society. Out of over 53,000 articles published annually in more than 64 journals, only 365 papers (one a day) are selected for this honor. The latest paper, “Beyond the […]

Dr. Jeffrey Edward Miller ‘87, founder and CEO of Invivoscribe, has been named the recipient of the 2025 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Alumni Award. Miller will accept the award and present the commencement address at the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry graduation ceremony on Saturday, June 14, 2025. “The eleven years I spent studying and working […]

Osvaldo Gutierrez shares his journey from undocumented student at UCLA to professor of chemistry and gives advice to a new generation of Bruins. READ THIS STORY IN SPANISH At seven years old, I was the youngest chivero in Rancho Los Prietos, in Guanajuato, Mexico. As a proud and effective young goat herder, my day started early. Six […]

Professor Ellen Sletten’s research is featured in a recent ACS Central Science article and corresponding first reactions piece honoring her as “an inspiring role model in the central science of chemistry”. The Sletten Group recently published a paper about new water-soluble dyes for imaging through tissue (ACS. Cent. Sci. 2025, 11, 208-218). Fluorescence imaging allows […]

On March 21, 2025, the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry posthumously awarded the 2025 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal to Nobel Laureate and UCLA Professor Emeritus Sir Fraser Stoddart, a much-respected and beloved colleague who passed away on December 30, 2024, and held the Seaborg Symposium and Medal Award Dinner in honor of his remarkable […]