Kaner group researcher Dr. Maher El-Kady (Ph.D. ’13) is featured in a new short film from the Chemistry Shorts series titled Energy to Spare: Building Better Batteries. The seven-minute film […]

Fourth-year chemistry Ph.D. candidate Jason Q.L. Williams (P. Weiss group) is one of six outstanding scholars joining the UCLA chapter of the national Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society (BGHS) […]

In the Fall of 2024, the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry named Nobel Laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart as the 2025 Seaborg Medalist—the highest honor the department bestows annually on […]

UCLA organic chemistry laboratories led by Distinguished Professors Neil Garg and Ken Houk have reported a groundbreaking study in Nature.   The groups demonstrate that two highly strained reactants, a cyclic allene […]

Iminium-catalyzed cycloadditions are a hallmark of organocatalysis, a concept that David MacMillan famously coined as “LUMO-catalysis” when he and Benjamin List were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their […]

Assistant Researcher Dr. Maher El-Kady (Ph.D. ’13) has been named by CIOLOOK Magazine as one of The 10 Most Influential Leaders in E-Mobility for 2025. This recognition honors individuals who […]

UCLA Hosts Cutting-Edge Workshop on the role of chemistry in the future of space science and exploration. The UCLA SPACE Institute and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry recently hosted […]

Distinguished Professor Michael Jung and his UCLA collaborators are featured in a recent UCLA Newsroom article for their groundbreaking research on a potential cure for baldness. Jung played a pivotal […]