Professor Raphael Levine has accepted a 3-year term and will continue his service to the PNAS Editorial Board. Professor Raphael Levine was invited by Dr. Inder M. Verma (Editor-in-Chief, PNAS) to continue his service on the PNAS Editorial Board.  As a member of the Editorial Board, Professor Levine will serve a 3-year term, starting January 1, 2013. […]

Professor Miguel Garcia-Garibay has won a 2012 Inter-American Photochemical Society Award in Photochemistry.  This award was established in 1988 to recognize outstanding contributions to the advancement of the photochemical and photophysical sciences, recognizing achievements made during the past ten years of the nominee’s career.  He is being recognized for his research on excited state processes […]

The department recognized the efforts of our accomplished students and faculty at the annual Departmental Awards Ceremony, held on November 19, 2012. In addition to recognizing the efforts of our accomplished students and faculty, we had an opportunity to celebrate our Department’s excellence in teaching and research. The award recipients are listed below. UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT […]

Chemical and Engineering News recently featured an article describing the recent Celebration of the 100th Birthday of Saul Winstein symposium organized by Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry, Prof. Ken Houk. The article expounds various contributions made by Prof. Winstein, and describe him as “the giant in Organic chemistry”, who discovered many fundamental concepts in organic […]

The American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable, a partnership between the ACS Green Chemistry Institute and member corporations in the pharmaceutical field, has awarded Professor Neil Garg its first research grant specifically directed toward greener medicinal chemistry. His proposed research, titled “Development of Green Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions,” will focus on using a seldom-employed […]

Yi Tang is one of 10 researchers nationwide who were selected to receive an NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. The award supports investigators taking “highly innovative approaches that have the potential to produce a high impact on a broad area of biomedical or behavioral research.” Information about the Pioneer Award can be found at this NIH […]

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 Irvine earlier this August. Additional information is available at the Beckman site.

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 2011, and we are #8 in the USA. We also improved according to the 2012 QS World University Rankings published earlier this year. Our Department […]