Third-year graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Erika López-Lara (P. Weiss group) has been accepted into the new UCLA Science & Food Future of Food Fellows Program. The inaugural UCLA Future […]

The UCLA Student Members of the American Chemical Society (SMACS) receives an outstanding performance rating from the ACS – a rarity among Tier 1 research universities – as well as […]

Ph.D. student Thando Khumalo (NarangLab) is only the second UCLA student in nearly 20 years to receive the prestigious DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. A chemistry Ph.D. student, Khumalo joined […]

Professor Osvaldo Gutierrez (B.A., M.S. ’09, Houk group), currently a Professor of Chemistry at Texas A&M University, will be joining the UCLA faculty on January 1, 2025 as a Full […]

Graduate students Andrew Goring (Clubb lab), Eric Pang (S. Clarke and Rodriguez labs), and Miranda Villanueva (Backus lab) have been selected as 2024-2025 Fowler Fellows. About the 2024-25 Audree Fowler […]

Dr. Judith Burstyn (Ph.D. ’86, Valentine group), a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UCLA alumna, has been appointed to lead the Division of Chemistry (CHE) of the U.S. […]

Professor David Leigh (University of Manchester) visited UCLA on October 24, 2024, to give the 2024 Cram Distinguished Lecture. A pioneer in the field of molecular machines, Leigh has developed […]

A new study by UCLA organic chemists shows how to create several types of molecules that violate Bredt’s rule, known as anti-Bredt olefins (ABOs). Many modern textbooks and online resources […]