Professor Anastassia Alexandrova is part of a team of UCLA physicists who have developed a new film that requires much less of the rare thorium-229 and is significantly less radioactive. […]

Professor Osvaldo Gutierrez was recently awarded the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), by President Biden. The award is highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government […]

We are sad to report that Santa Monica College chemistry professor and UCLA alumnus, Dr. Sehat Nauli ‘98, passed away on January 14, 2025, from injuries sustained after being struck […]

Distinguished Professor Michael E. Jung, the Walter and Shirley Wang Chair in Medicinal Drug Discovery,  has been named the recipient of the prestigious 2025 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Award […]

Professor Richard Kaner, professional researcher Dr. Maher El-Kady, and Materials Science and Engineering alumnus Dr. Musibau Francis Jimoh lead a team of UCLA chemists who have developed a novel, textured, […]

Professor Richard Kaner, the UCLA Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation, has been named the 2025 ACS Basolo Medalist by the Department of Chemistry faculty at Northwestern […]

Foote group postdoctoral alumnus Professor Alexander Greer (Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY) has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of Photochemistry and Photobiology. Photochemistry and Photobiology is the official journal […]

The UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry has appointed Professor Anastassia Alexandrova as the inaugural Charles W. Clifford Jr. Chair in Chemistry & Biochemistry, effective retroactively to July 1, 2024. […]