Professor Soumitra Athavale has been awarded a highly prestigious Early Stage Investigator Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (ESI MIRA) R35 grant from the National Institutes of Health / National Institute of […]

First year Materials and Nanoscience graduate student Stéphane Miaule (Tolbert group) has been awarded the 2026 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, one of the country’s most prestigious […]

Congratulations to our current graduate and undergraduate students and alumni who have received prestigious 2026 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) and Honorable Mentions. The National Science Foundation […]

A team of UCLA researchers, led by Professor Keriann Backus and postdoctoral teacher-scholar Dr. Chau Ngo, has developed a new technology that makes light-activated protein labeling more precise and reliable. […]

Professor Ryan A. Shenvi (The Scripps Research Institute), widely recognized for his work in natural product synthesis and the development of new methods to access complex, biologically active molecules, presented […]

On March 13, 2026, the UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry honored Professor Richard Kaner (UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry) with the 2026 Glenn T. Seaborg Medal in recognition of […]

Researchers led by Professor Philippe Sautet have mapped out a promising method to improve the conversion of propane gas into propene, the world’s second most widely produced plastic precursor, after […]

Last year, the UCLA Molecular Instrumentation Center (MIC) in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry opened its newest lab, the High-Throughput Synthesis and Catalysis Facility (HTSC), and began working with […]