Continuing on the Faculty Spotlight series of the three recently promoted faculty (Duan, Kwon and Garg), this week’s feature focuses on Professor Xiangfeng Duan. Professor Xiangfeng Duan joined Professor Ohyun Kwon and Professor Neil Garg in their recent promotions to the rank of (Full) Professor. The rank of (Full) Professor is the highest rank that […]

The 2013-2014 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Orientation Handbook is now available for incoming undergraduate students. The handbook introduces new students to the department’s faculty, majors, courses, degree planning, campus resources and other general information.  The 2013-2014 UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Orientation Handbook is available here.  

Professor Charles Knobler is one of 96 distinguished members of the American Chemical Society who have been named as 2013 ACS Fellows.  The 2013 Fellows represent 28 National Committees, 30 Divisions, and 49 Local Sections of the ACS.   C&EN: The new fellows will be feted at the society’s fall national meeting in Indianapolis this […]

The department would like to congratulate Professor Ohyun Kwon, who joined Professor Xiangfeng Duan and Professor Neil Garg in their promotions to the rank of full professor this month. The rank of (Full) Professor is the highest rank that a professor can achieve (other than in a named or administrative position) and is conferred upon […]

UCLA researchers, led by Professor David Eisenberg, have identified compounds that target amyloid fibrils in Alzheimer’s and other brain diseases. UCLA chemists and molecular biologists have for the first time used a “structure-based” approach to drug design to identify compounds with the potential to delay or treat Alzheimer’s disease, and possibly Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease […]

PhysOrg reported on the development by Professor Kendall Houk, Dr. Yong Liang (Houk Group) and colleagues of a new chemical reaction with the potential to lower the cost and streamline medicine manufacturing. Professor Ken Houk, UCLA’s Saul Winstein Professor of Organic Chemistry and Dr. Yong Liang, a postdoctoral fellow in the Houk Research Group at […]

Graduate student Crystal Valdez (Alexandrova Group) was part of the official video blog team of the 63rd Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau. Nobel Laureate Meeting @ Youtube.com: When 34 Nobel Laureates come together in Lindau with 625 young researchers from almost 80 countries, the spirit of diversity is everywhere. But are there common threads that bind […]

The Daily Bruin featured two UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry undergraduate students who helped to bring medical aid to 300+ people in the Philippines. Yancey Cashell of the UCLA Daily Bruin highlights biochemistry undergraduate students Victoria Mercado and Aldrich Albano who represented the UCLA student group, Pilipinos for Community Health, in their journey to Antique, Philippines. […]