Dr. Eric Scerri’s article in response to the recent confirmation of element 115 has been published on the Huffington Post. In the article titled, “Why All the Fuss Over a New Element?“, published on August 28, 2013, Eric Scerri provides his insight on the impact of the new discovery and its role in the “advancement […]

UCLA Organic Chemistry was highlighted in Paramount Pictures’ The Guilt Trip, a comedy-drama film starring Barbara Streisand and Seth Rogan. In the movie, Andy Brewster (Seth Rogan) is a down on luck inventor attempting to get his organic cleaning product in a major retail store. The plan for a quick stop at Mom’s (before a […]

The Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry invites applications for full-time Academic Coordinator position to lead and coordinate educational programs and initiatives for the department. The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA seeks applications for an Academic Coordinator to lead and coordinate educational programs and initiatives. The position is full time and would begin the […]

UCLA Today has highlighted Professor Michael Jung and fellow researchers who have led efforts to cure prostate cancer. UCLA Today: The awarding of $11.6 million in federal funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to enable a multidisciplinary group of UCLA scientists to continue their important prostate cancer research is just the latest in a […]

Photos from ISMB/ECCB 2013 and the awarding of the ISCB Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award to Professor David Eisenberg are now available online. The International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) awarded Professor David Eisenberg with the Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award for his contributions to the field of computational biology through research, education, and service. The presentation was […]

Professors Paul Weiss and Anne Andrews was recently profiled in the MIT Technology Review article, “Chemical Connector”. Paul Weiss, a distinguished professor in chemistry & biochemistry Professor and director of the California Nanosystems Institute who holds the UCLA Fred Kavli Chair in Nanosystems Sciences was profiled by Katherine Bourzac in the September/October 2013 issue of […]

For the third consecutive year, UCLA is rated second among U.S. public universities in Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities. The prestigious SJTU survey, which evaluates more than 1,000 institutions, also placed UCLA 12th among all universities internationally for the third year in a row. In compiling its rankings, SJTU takes into […]

Thirty-three new summer researchers (future graduate students) joined the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and completed a two-day orientation program, held in July of this year.   Chair Miguel Garcia-Garibay and Graduate Advisor Bill Gelbart welcomed the group, which included students from all major regions of the United States, as well as India and Thailand. […]